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NFL ordered to pay $4.7 billion in damages for 'overcharged' Sunday Ticket

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An L.A. jury ruled the NFL must pay $4.7 billion in damages to fans and sports bars who were said to be overcharged to watch out-of-market games.

The NFL suffered a huge setback Thursday and was ordered to pay about $4.7 billion in damages for violating antitrust law in a class-action suit over pricing of DirecTV’s “Sunday Ticket” packages. A Los Angeles jury voted unanimously that the league colluded with DirecTV, along with CBS and Fox, to drive up pricing of the premium product. The jury deliberated for roughly five hours over two days.

It took nearly a decade for the case to wind its way through the legal ecosystem, beginning in 2015 when a San Francisco pub called the Mucky Duck filed a complaint about how the NFL handles its out-of-market broadcasts. The class action was filed on behalf of more than 2.4 million residential subscribers and more than 48,000 restaurants, bars and other commercial establishments that show the games.

 

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