Purchase of individual NFL games on cable (1 Viewer)

[Captain Spaulding]

Unless the NFL ticket on Direct TV has some sort of monopoly or legal rights, I would bet most NFL fans would pay $5 to be able o sit at home and select an individual game of choice if it wasn't televised on the local cable channels. How many of you would buy a game for $5 if your favorite team wasn't televised on a given week? I'm a Steelers fan and they have been getting plenty of nationally televised games so far but if they weren't, I'd definitely pay $5 a pop to get their game on Sunday afternoon. What's an extra $10-20 a month on the cable bill...sure beats either missing the game or having to drive 20 minutes to the nearest sports bar and spend alot more money on beer/ nachos/ wings and have to put up with a bunch of 20 something drunk morons screaming and hollering and spilling beer all over each other (I guess I'm getting old).

How many of you would buy a game of choice on Sunday's for $5?

 

[fsufan]

i think you can buy just a weekend package for the NFL ST, like $30 or $40 for the weekend

 

[fsufan]

if, BIG IF, the NFL and DTV did this they would be more than $5. Hell a PPV college football game is $30

 

[njxbean]

i believe NFL and DirectTV have a special contract so that only they have access to the games. Otherwise we would have seen this on cable by now.

 

[The Ghost of Common]

They make more money by forcing you to purchase their entire packages.

It's the same reason they don't let you just choose an ala carte package of channels you want. We have 3 spanish channels with our cable provider, and 50 other channels I've never turned into

If they let me pick the 7 or 8 channels only that I watch, they'd be out of business.

It sucks, but thats life.

 

[Bottomfeeder Sports]

Local network affiliates and the ads they sell is what pays for those billion dollar TV deals. They will allow the trivial number of satellite owners thwart this business model. The whole deal would unravel if the masses with cable weren't watching the local ads.

 

[Tanner9919]

its a licensing issue related to the markets..for example, as a Giants or a Jets fan, we're forced to sit thru games from the 'other' NY teams at 1pm when/if our favorite team plays at 4pm, or sunday/monday nights..we get one maybe two double headers during the regular season,and thats it. We're force-fed games we're not interested in..and if its not Giants/Jets, we're force-fed any/all Dallas games on doubleheader Sundays.. WTH??

Seriously, outside of the locals in each town, who's watching a Seattle/SF game anyways, or Oakland/Baltimore game? Is there a reason that Giants fans had to sit thru a Jets/Chiefs game?! The Jets have played some very ugly games this season, I'd really like to be able to see other games from other cities...

NFL licensing is very frunstating to deal with,esp in larger markets that have two NFL teams...