Re: _Antitrust exemption_, Russ Paige wrote to James Dunlop on 10 Nov 96:
 RP> If what you say is true, then there would also be an antitrust exemption
 RP> in place for the NFL.  Yet there is not.  The NFL acts as a monopoly--it
 RP> has player drafts, for instance--what other industry has drafts for
 RP> entry-level candidates who then cannot talk to competing companies
 RP> within the industry?
Actually, they can.  There's nothing stopping them from talking to teams from 
the CFL (or the USFL or WFL when those leagues existed).  The NFL is like one 
big corporation, with each team a separate branch. 
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