The Fall Creek Baptist Church in Indiana wants to have a Super Bowl party for their paritioners so that they can have a place to gather and watch their local football team in the big game. Projecting the game up on the wall would provide a safe place to watch the game where there would be no alcohol and could be attended by children. There’s only one problem, and that is the threat of a lawsuit from the NFL.

[...] The NFL objected to the church’s plans to use a projector to show the game, saying the law limits it to one TV no bigger than 55 inches. [...] NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league’s long-standing policy is to ban “mass out-of-home viewing” of the Super Bowl. An exception is made for sports bars and other businesses that show televised sports as a part of their everyday operations. We have contracts with our (TV) networks to provide free over-the-air television for people at home,” Aiello said. “The network economics are based on television ratings and at-home viewing. Out-of-home viewing is not measured by Nielsen.”

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