Perhaps it’s no surprise that the two largest institutions in American life, the U.S. government and the NFL, would eventually meet at the crossroads of media disruption. Indeed, amid the NFL’s attempt to bid up its existing media partners in exchange for extending their distribution contracts by a few years, Rupert Murdoch allegedly met with President Trump to raise his concerns over the flight of NFL games away from traditional broadcasters, like his Fox, to streamers—a sentiment echoed in the mogul’s own paper, The Wall Street Journal. Soon enough, members of Congress were kicking up a fuss over whether the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, an antitrust exemption that allows NFL teams to collectively pool and market their games, needed to be revisited.