This has gotten out of hand

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  3. Outside of Peacock and ESPN+, pretty much everyone already has every day access to the other channels. This is no longer a big deal.

  6. In the 1970s Boxing and MLB were the 2 biggest pro sports. Networks showed major bouts and ABCs Wide World of Sports frequently had big name fights on Saturdays. Ali, Forman, Frazier, Sugar Ray Leonard and many more were household names that everyone knew even if you weren’t into boxing.

    Then boxing got greedy. They slowly migrated all the title bouts to pay per view and the popularity of the sport waned.

    Today, except among avid boxing fans, you would be hard pressed to find someone who could name one of the current heavy weight champs.

    NFL is going down the same road. By moving TNG to a streai service that I don’t have, all they have done is shown me that I don’t have to watch NFL football on Thursdays.

    It’s really an amazingly simple business concept….when you make your product less accessible, consumers will consume less of it.

  7. We should really separate this between paid walls and free.

    Who gives a shit if you have free access? My problem is when you have a paid subscription between you a single game.

  16. Or live in Sweden, about 250$/year for game pass on dazn and you get everything.

  22. I went to Home Depot and paid $30 for a decent antenna. Now the first four a free. That thing has been INFINITELY useful

  23. I am once again begging the NFL to allow me to just pay a a single service for a single teams games. Home and away. Playoff or not. I would pay a premium for simplicity and to make sure I see all the games I most care about.

    But until then? It’s watch the games that I can legally and yar har for the rest.

  24. I love how I don’t live in the US, so I canI just pay DAZN once and have all the games in one app.

  28. Everyone needs to shut up, we all know exactly where you need to go without having to pay for streaming services 🤫

  29. Youtube – free

    Prime – at least in seasons past, also streams free on twitch

    CBS/NBC/ABC/fox – Major channels in pretty much any cable/streaming package, or with antenna

    Nfl network – on most services I think, YouTube tv probably the cheapest? (Does sling have it?)

    Netflix and peacock suck though. I’m a buccaneer fan when games are on those

  31. CBS, Fox, NBC, ABC, and YouTube are free

    Edit: Also, League Pass is a pretty conspicuous omission. In my market (with an AFC and NFC team) it’s pretty much necessary for watching the Cowboys

  34. Don’t forget Nickelodeon! SpongeBob and Patrick do an amazing job of color and analysis!

  35. Streaming has become Cable TV 2.0 and it’s worse now. I have no qualms finding other means to watch games.

    Edit: I’m talking about my local sports bar of course.

  37. I paid for the NFL package last year, including red zone, only to learn that it doesn’t actually include all the games and that I needed Youtube TV for the local games, peacock and prime for other games. Never paying for that again.

  38. Start pirating. I’m not even kidding. This pricing models are unfair and predatory. I see absolutely no issue with taking advantage of free streams while they’re trying to take advantage of us.

    Offer realistic options for people to watch every game, or every game from one team.

    There are many good sources out there, usually googling for Reddit streams will give you a couple good options.

  40. I get YouTube is where the NFL package is now at instead of DirecTV but they need to get rid of ESPN+,Netflix and Peacock. Prime does really good coverage but I rather tnf be on broadcast

  42. Dear NFL,

    Please let me pay you some money, and you let me stream your football games. I don’t know if it will be quite as lucrative as broadcast exclusivity deals, but you’ll be able to get all of the advertising revenue instead of these channels and services, so it’s at least worth looking into.

    Until then you can cordially suck my dick,
    – Michael –

  44. Pretty soon you’ll need to pay to watch the games on CBS, NBC or Fox.

  45. Ah Americans complaining about the free market they cherish why am I not surprised

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