I had heard, it was John Clayton I think, say the same thing, that the complaint was a Quixotic act; good luck finding collusion among all 31 teams. But thanks to Mojician we have the actual language, which I would point out does not say “all” but “any,” which I take to mean one or more. So, if a team takes the prohibited action with any team or the NFL (as a single entity) it is a violation. It only takes two to tango. I also recall that someone pointed out that the remedy for violation was termination of the collective bargaining agreement – a reboot. That explains the limitation of remedies in Section 3. You can kill the agreement but you can’t sue us otherwise.
Given that we have just witnessed the spectacle of a ‘lifer’ NFL assistant coach be publicly humiliated by disclosure of a video of him snorting a white powder, which he imprudently sent to a woman he had ‘dated’ less than a month, I can certainly imagine an indiscreet email trail between a member of an NFL front office and someone at NFL HQ, or another team, dissing CK’s character, or worse. Now that would be an interested development, if it opened the door for immediate renegotiation of the CBA, or even credibly threatened it.