Maybe not this time around, though. Robert Griffin III in Washington and Colin Kaepernick in San Francisco haven't duplicated their 2012 differencemaking, while Eli Manning has been a turnover machine for struggling New York, with a leagueworst eight interceptions in three weeks. As for Rodgers and Ryan, they have played well for the most part, but the results have not been there for their teams.This is not a new argument. Sports leagues have been making this same argument for over thirty years, and virtually every court to address the issue has rejected the argument for over thirty years, often finding that agreements made by teams have violated Section 1. In American Needle, however, the district court held and the 7th Circuit affirmed that the NFL acts as a single entity when collectively licensing its intellectual property, and that the single entity classification of the league must be made "one facet of the league at a time." I'll talk a bit more about the merits