NFL ordered to pay $4.7 billion in ‘Sunday Ticket’ antitrust case

LOS ANGELES — A federal jury has ordered the NFL to pay $4.7 billion for violating antitrust laws by distributing out-of-market Sunday afternoon games on a premium subscription service. The numbers from the June 27 verdict against the NFL were listed in a verdict form that was released to the Register of Cases Tuesday. The lawsuit involved 2.4 million individual subscribers and 48,000 businesses in the United States who paid for a DirecTV package of out-of-market games from the 2011-2022 seasons. The lawsuit …