Monday, January 31, 2011

Week 2 Sport Law Post

1. What are the elements to a valid contract?
2. How can those elements themselves be fulfilled?


There must be consent, meaning an offer is made and that offer is accepted. There must be consideration, meaning that something of value is exchanged for something else of value. The agreement must include only legal actions. Each party must have the capacity to enter a contract.

These elements are fulfilled in the following example. I offer to pay you $15 to wash my car and you accept. An offer has been made and accepted by two parties. An offer to exchange something of value ($15) for something else of value (a clean car) has been made. Washing a car and paying someone to wash a car are both legal actions. You are an adult, in good mental health and not under the influence, so you have the capacity to enter a contract.



This article discusses the lobbying taking place on Capitol Hill and how it is affecting the upcoming CBA negotiations. It is interesting to see that the NFL spent 1.1 million dollars lobbying Congress in 2009, and the NFLPA spent $350,000 doing the same. The NFL has a PAC while the the NFLPA does not.

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