Multiple members of Congress have "serious concerns" about NFL

When it comes to securing governmental approval of their proposed partial merger, the NFL and ESPN have more than one branch to worry about.

Ryan Glasspiegel of FrontOfficeSports.com reports that multiple members of Congress have sent a letter to the NFL, Disney, and ESPN expressing “ serious concerns ” over ESPN’s plan to give equity in the company to the league.

In the letter, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representatives Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) and Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.) explain that the NFL’s partial ownership of ESPN could create “an incentive to grant ESPN anticompetitive preferential treatment over other distribution partners” and that it “would likely harm ESPN’s competitors, who could find it challenging to compete, ultimately resulting in hig