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Porter was commissioned by the NFL to discuss his specialty, business competition, at a meeting of 65 NFL representatives, including owners and general managers of the 28 teams...
...Porter was asked to give a speech about competitive behavior couched in terms of NFL and USFL," said Laura Steinberg, Porter's attorney. "In that talk Professor Porter had been asked what ways NFL could suppress the USFL...
Porter had also been retained by the NFL as a consultant, and he prepared a case study of the NFL-USFL rivalry for his students, said William Hokanson, spokesman for the Business School. He called it "more or less the private outside activity of Professor Porter...
Porter and NFL lawyers did not return repeated calls yesterday. A USFL attorney declined to comment...
...largest issue in the trial involves network television coverage. The USFL alleges that the NFL conspired with the three major networks to deny the USFL a TV contract this season...