On June 27, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California rendered a multibillion-dollar verdict in favor of restaurant/bar owners and individual customers and against the National Football League (NFL), related to the NFL's Sunday Ticket. Sunday Ticket is a product offered by the NFL, beginning in 1994 and distributed exclusively through its broadcast partner DirectTV, wherein a bundle of games are offered nationwide, targeted to out-of-market fans interested in watching games of their home teams and to restaurants/bars seeking to offer this option to local fans. As pleaded by the plaintiffs in this lawsuit, the package of games "could be sold nationwide, allowing the NFL and its teams to offer a single, monopolized product containing the various products they would otherwise sell individually."