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Today’s NFL: Higher Prices, More Politics

President Donald Trump has lit the National Football League up several times this year.

He made it clear that he’s not a fan of several rule changes. He slammed this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, saying that it was “absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER! It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence.” And on Sharyl Attkisson’s “Full Measure” show this Sunday, he called out the NFL’s policy of moving games behind paywalls: “They could be killing the golden goose… You have people that live for Sunday. They can’t think about anything else, and then all of a sudden they have to pay $1,000? It’s crazy.”

The president speaks for tens of millions of Americans who are equally fed up with the NFL these days, as it moves to take more games off broadcast while still pushing more woke politics on and off the field.

America’s sports fans reflect the broad diversity of this nation—rich and poor, rural and urban, Republican and Democrat. Yet the leagues that run the business of sports all too often are captured by the New York and Hollywood values that define our entertainment industries. The result is a disconnect that may have real consequences as the leagues now defend their profitable positions before an anti-woke Trump administration. The National Football League could be the first to face the........

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