OK, here's my situation. I work weekends. I work until 8 pm almost every night during the week. Now that I'm on the west coast, that means I miss almost every freakin' NFL game except for the first quarter of the early games on Sunday and the 2nd half of the Sunday night game. I get to watch about 5 minutes of Monday or Thursday night football. I know I'm probably in the minority on this issue, but I want to know how Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NHL for god's sake offer a way to watch games with your broadband access and the freakin' NFL can't?
Isnt' the NFL supposed to be the big dogs of all the leagues? I can subscribe to MLB and watch 6 games at once from my laptop, but I am restricted to radio broadcasts with the NFL? Now I am thankful that now NFL Network is actually broadcasting the Thursday night games, albeit only with lookins half of the time, but the only reason they are doing it is to get more people to start liking NFL Network and pressure their cable company to stop being douchebags and include it in their general sports package. See this article on CrunchGear.
Now tell me, am I asking for too much? I would gladly pay probably up to $40 bucks a month just for the priveledge to watch my beloved Bears each and every Sunday. You know what, maybe I'll just buy a Slingbox and say "Screw you NFL, I don't need your broadband package anyway."
Just for the record, I have been paying $10 a month for the past 2 years just to listen to Bears games while I'm on the road.
2 comments:
It is unusual that the NFL hasn't cashed in on this avenue of revenue. But there might be something in the contract with DirectTV that prevents them from doing this. The NFL is so anal about their product, so they might be try to figure out how to make the most money off of broadcasting on the Internet.
I'd be at the store with Slingbox in hand ready to pay for it right now if I were you.
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