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Home
Territory Defined. |
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"Home
Territory" with respect to any club means the area
in which the club is located and for which it holds a
franchise and plays its home games. |
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| 4.2 |
Rights
Within Home Territory. |
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Other
than League Championship games and audio and visual
reproduction rights granted to the League, each member
has the exclusive right within its home territory to
exhibit professional football games played by teams of
the League except that: |
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(a) |
Whenever
two (2) club franchises in the League are located in the
same area, then the owners of each of such franchises
have equal rights within the home territory of the area. |
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(b) |
Subject
to the provisions of Section 4.2 (a) above, no club in
the League may play games within the home territory of
any other club unless a home club is a particlpant. |
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(c) |
No
member has any right to transfer its club or franchise
to a location outside of its home territory except upon
the affirmative vote of three-fourths (3/4) of the
member clubs, including the affirmative vote of any
member club whose home territory would be affected by
the proposed transfer. |
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| 4.3 |
League
Control of Games. |
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The
League has exclusive control of the exhibition of
football games by member clubs within the home territory
of each member. No member club has the right to
transfer its franchise or playing site to a different
area, either within or outside its home territory,
without prior approval by the affirmative vote of
three-fourths (3/4) of the existing member clubs of the
League, including the affirmative vote of any member
club whose home territory would be affected by the
proposed transfer. This provision shall not restrict a
club's right to change the location of its business
office within the club's home territory. |
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| 4.4 |
Conference
Alignment. |
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The
League will be divided into such conferences and
divisions as shall be adopted by the members through the
By-Laws. |
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| 4.5 |
Conference
Alignment Considerations. |
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Subject
to the provisions of the By-Laws, whenever the League
proposes or seeks to realign the clubs into conferences
or other groups for scheduling or standing purposes,
certain factors will be considered in order not to
unfairly prejudice the rights of any club in the League,
including geographical location and proximity, natural
rivalries, stadium capacity, gate attendance, weather
conditions, relative team strength, and other sport
conflicts involving clubs playing home games in sports
facilities. |
