At its core, the case is about whether the 32-team NFL can legally operate as a single business entity, as it claims, or whether it must be considered 32 separate entities, as American Needle argues, which would presumably givethe company the right to ink deals with individual clubs.
But a still-under-the-radar social enterprise, one with plans togive communities new tools with which to revitalize neighborhoods and take on other projects, hopes to move theneedle.