{"id":853867,"date":"2026-04-04T20:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/853867\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:21:23","slug":"sports-leagues-never-ending-streaming-greed-is-begging-fans-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/853867\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports leagues&#8217; never-ending streaming greed is begging fans to leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I only wished that Roger Goodell, Rob Manfred and their enabling gaggle of nodding, bottom-line and foresightless team owners had been seated well within hearing distance.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I was having dinner at a restaurant bar when a senior couple from Montreal, made aware that I\u2019m a NYC-based sportswriter, told me that they\u2019re lifelong Giants and NFL fans.<\/p>\n<p>Both knew their stuff, from Carl \u201cSpider\u201d Lockhart to Karl Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>He added that his entire neighborhood of kids were and, as far he knows, remain Giants fans. Hmm. How did that happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I only wished that Roger Goodell, Rob Manfred and their enabling gaggle of nodding, bottom-line and foresightless team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[3249,7,116695,39939,6,1902,9,2833,203,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-853867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-equal-time","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-gary-cohen","11":"tag-kenny-smith","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-roger-goodell","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-media","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116348301471662597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}