‘The revenue-sharing deal, combined with last year’s collective- bargaining agreement with the players and the league’s sale of exclusive broadcast and satellite rights to its favored business partners, adds up to the sort of behavior that – if pursued by, say, Coke and Pepsi – would bring down the heat of the anti-trust division of the U.S. Justice Department. That’s why a little bit of signal-calling by Congress is important. Keeping federal law at bay on such issues is crucial to the success, as it is now defined, of the NFL in particular and professional sports in general. Unless, of course, you miss the XFL.’