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Collusion flows from the fact that NFL teams are independent businesses

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Many assume the NFL teams coordinate/collude routinely, but that's not the case.

The American Needle case, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010 , found that the NFL isn’t a “single entity” but 32 independent businesses.

Any coordination/collusion among those businesses amounts to a violation of the antitrust laws.