Could lawsuits have a chance to break the exclusive contracts on sports franchises?

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Bofferbrauer2 said:

potato_hamster said:

To be clear, the NFL actually offered that exclusivity to the highest bidder, and EA won. The NFL was the ones deciding to kill competition, not EA.

True, but the end result is the same. And I wonder who had that dumb idea at the NFL - wouldn't they earn more by having several licensees?

The NFL's modus operandi was to have one licensed game, because if you have only one game then it's easier to regulate quality (Read: Revoke the license if it sucks). The NFL didn't want sub-par games with their name on it floating around, and 989's god-awful NFL GameDay series was a major culprit.