Rennaissance Man Drew Brees Authors Op-Ed

Drew Brees is a man of many talents. All-Pro quarterback. Something of a tennis prodigy in his younger days. And now, legal expert?

↵In a case that has received little public scrutiny so far, lower courts upheld the NFL’s right to continue making exclusive apparel deals, beating back an anti-trust challenge. But then the NFL did something...curious. They challenged the ruling, and asked the Supreme Court to expand on it.

↵Or, as Saints quarterback, Drew Brees put it in a Washington Post op-ed he penned on Friday, this would be like “my asking an official to review an 80-yard pass of mine that the official had already ruled a touchdown.” The issue, as Brees explains, is that if the Supreme Court rules that the NFL has the right to act as a single entity, rather than as 32 separate teams, more broadly than is currently recognized, that the players could lose substantial leverage in upcoming labor talks. In other words, Roger Goodell is playing for keeps with the NFL CBA set to be renegotiated this offseason.

↵I don’t know what Drew Brees’ legal background is, but he’s generally not someone you want to mess with:

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↵You’ve been warned, Roger Goodell.