draft, each team made players available who were under contract to the selling team and were on that team's active or injured reserve lists.  The formula in the February 14 agreement enabled the selling teams to "freeze," or protect, certain of their players, and Five Smiths to select three players from each selling team's remaining pool of players


6
 Before entering the expansion draft, five Smiths also signed contracts with approximately fifty other players, who were either free agents or were rookies acquired in the college draft


7
 15 U.S.C. § 1291; see S.Rep.No.1087, 1961 U.S.Code Cong. & Admin.News p. 3042 (1961).  The statute provides in pertinent part that the antitrust laws shall not apply to any joint agreement by which a league of professional sports clubs sells1967-2 C.B. 127, was in effect during the period in dispute and supports the depreciation of the players' contracts at bar


12
 Government's original brief at 21-22


13
 The complete list set forth by the Government consisted of the following:
(1) The right to be the sole provider of NFL football within a 75-mile radius of Atlanta;
(2) Protection by League rules and regulations from intra-league business competition;
(3) The right to share in the proceeds of future NFL expansion (after 1967);
(4) The right to share equally with other NFL clubs in the revenue from all single network television contracts negotiated on a league-wide basis;
(5) The right to sell broadcast rights for preseason television and for both preseason and regular season radio;
(6) The right to share equally with other clubs in revenue from