NFL owners are mostly self-serving billionaires who bilk taxpayers, exploit addiction, and harm players.
In January 2023, the executive director of the players union, the NFLPA, criticized NFL owners as follows:
“ | The league has probably been the largest group of bullies in the labor market in the history of labor in America. ... We’ve had people declare war on labor forever, but I don’t know of another business in America that has antitrust exemptions, they answer to no one, there’s no 10-Ks, there’s no 10-Qs, there’s no board of directors, there’s no transparency, there’s no oversight. The only people who can ever stand up to the National Football League [are the players].[1] | ” |