American Needle v. NFL vis-à-vis the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961

By Paul M. Pedersen and Ryan M. Rodenberg   High school football on Friday nights. Saturday afternoons filled with college football. Professional football all day Sunday.   This is the game schedule every football aficionado has come to know and love during the past five decades. But it wasn’t always so. It took an act of Congress nearly 50 years ago – the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 (“SBA”) – to set forth the easy to remember schedule.   The SBA is codified at 15