Supporting Healthy Advancements & Reforms in the Economics of Sports.
Boldly, we hope to change the way professional sports are played in America. Unlike most industries, major sports leagues are allowed to operate monopolies against the law and standard principles of free commerce. For the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL, they are protected from anti-trust laws because Congress has given them anti-trust exemptions. Essentially, they are allowed to violate the law because it was viewed as within the interest of the American people.
That was then. This is now. The dynamics and economies of sports have grown incredibly over the last few decades. There remains no legitimate economic or public interest in continuing to allow these monopolies and their closed systems. And fandom should never trump law or economic rights.
We seek legislative action removing the anti-trust exemptions from all professional sports league, forcing open competition with other private entities in non-monopoly formats. Formats which can be left to each sports’ governing authority to decide but ensuring access and competition within the free market in accordance with American principles of capitalism.
Also, we seek the reform of the NCAA to render it in compliance with standard labor practices and protections enjoyed by normal Americans. Too long have American youth, unable to properly represent their own interests, been used in a meat-market for the undeserved profit of others.
Positively, the opening of American Sports would create alternate career paths for many trapped within the NCAA prison. With free market sports systems, players could lawfully sign with teams whenever appropriate for the player and team. Hundreds of thousands of Americans would have paths to employment without the arbitrary and burdensome requirement of sacrificing time or potential injury in the NCAA. Student athletes would truly be student athletes rather than athletes pretending to be students.
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