{"id":862711,"date":"2026-04-10T00:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/862711\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:45:28","slug":"justice-department-is-investigating-the-nfl-for-potential-anticompetitive-practices-ap-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/862711\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department is investigating the NFL for potential anticompetitive practices, AP source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CSN7NPCIIRDB5DBIT6ODGFXWG4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Justice Department is investigating the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a> for potential anticompetitive practices, according to a government official.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UTWXBQXWNFBS7CUVKCJJQZNFAM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The official, who was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation by name and spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday, said the investigation is \u201cabout affordability for consumers and creating an even playing field for providers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Justice Department is investigating the NFL for potential anticompetitive practices, according to a government official. The official,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[104526,117335,7,565,221,253,2368,5555,6,111730,498,40927,42950,835,110248,8865,4239,9,222,573],"class_list":{"0":"post-862711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-2026-nfl-schedule","9":"tag-fbn-nfl-investigation","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-texans","14":"tag-houstontexans","15":"tag-legal-proceedings","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nfl-2026-news","18":"tag-nfl-football","19":"tag-nfl-highlights","20":"tag-nfl-latest-news","21":"tag-nfl-news","22":"tag-nfl-schedule-2026","23":"tag-nfl-scores","24":"tag-politics","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-texans","27":"tag-u-s-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116377650810675229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}