Legal Opinion
United States Football League v. National Football League
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 10, 1988No. Nos. 1189, 1430, Dockets 87-7137, 87-7271PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
This appeal follows a highly publicized trial and jury verdict of $1.00. The plaintiff is a now-defunct professional football league that began play in this decade; the defendant is a football league founded nearly seventy years ago. The older of the two leagues, the National Football League, is a highly successful entertainment product. So many Americans watched NFL games between 1982 and 1986 that its twenty-eight teams shared $2.1 billion in rights fees from the three major television networks, and perhaps as much as $1 billion in gate receipts. The newer league, the…
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