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november-12-1960

November 12, 1960

News

General manager and co-owner Chet Soda complained bitterly about the news that two NFL games, each on a different network, would be broadcast in the Bay Area at the same time as the the Raiders' home game against the Bills tomorrow. Typically, only one NFL game would be broadcast while the 49ers were out of town or as they would be tomorrow, idle, but NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle said that his league's teams sold their broadcasting rights to networks and sponsors and had no further control over when and where they were broadcast except to impose a blackout while a team was playing at home. Soda complained that the NFL was making a mockery of anti-trust laws and that he would be referring the matter to AFL commissioner Joe Foss. Rozelle responded by saying his league wasn't “targeting” the AFL and that the new league should attend to its own affairs and not worry about what the NFL was doing.


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