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Fifteen minutes after every game a condensed version of the games is posted on the NFL's YouTube channel. Most sports do this now. Don't pay a premium for a McDonalds French fry.
uh.. whole point of watching is the thrill of unpredictability in real time.
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Doesn't UK have a similar problem but with soccer (The real game you play mainly with foot) games?
The name football comes from the fact that it was played _on_ foot by the commoners, as opposed to the equestrian sports played by the nobility.
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I think it would make a little more sense if the games didn’t already have frequent commercial breaks and in-broadcast advertising.
They’d have to re-arrange how the sport works, I think. It’s a whole activity built for broadcast TV with commercial breaks. If they cut the commercials you’d still have just as much time with nothing happening. An improvement, sure, but not great.
Go to a high school game then go to an NFL game and you’ll see a massive difference.
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NFL games are consistently among the most watched shows on TV/streaming in the US. People are already voting with their wallets and they are voting that the content is worth it to them.
Just the number of sports bars paying for the games is probably enough
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No matter what abomination of greed we witness on this website, there's always some sucker who's going to justify it.
Someone is always around to point out that entertainment is not food or health care and you are free to choose which, and how much to consume. And that consuming all of it, all the time, however you like, for pennies, is not a human right.
It's not about a single source of entertainment, it's that we're witnessing every nice thing become shittier and shittier each year, all for the purpose of increasing profits which are already immense and concentrated in the hands of a few.
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No, just need to be in the US. Unless they changed it? But I thought the whole reason they did it was because they were required to broadcast it for free in the teams that are playing's markets, and this was the easiest way for them to do that.
It's required prime since at least 2022
https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/249370-reminde...
https://thedesk.net/2022/09/twitch-thursday-night-football-a...
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Doesn't UK have a similar problem but with soccer (The real game you play mainly with foot) games?
The name football comes from the fact that it was played _on_ foot by the commoners, as opposed to the equestrian sports played by the nobility.
> Conversely, in 1363, King Edward III of England issued a proclamation banning "...handball, football, or hockey; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games",[7] suggesting that "football" may have been differentiated from games that involved other parts of the body.
More generally, it appears that the article didn't consider how long each subscription would be needed to stream every NFL game. It instead looks at the price if one purchased each streaming subscription for the whole football season.
Fifteen minutes after every game a condensed version of the games is posted on the NFL's YouTube channel. Most sports do this now. Don't pay a premium for a McDonalds French fry.
Just after they release a movie, you can read the whole plot on wikipedia for free! Don’t pay to see a movie.
not just after they release, but they would definitely show "abridged" versions of movies on daytime TV, with a little bit trimmed off to open up some space for commercials etc
just another thing that netflix ruined
Living abroad, I used to pay about $150/year for NFL Gamepass, and it was really good. Every game from every season, with the commercials cut out so you could watch a game in about 2 hours. Visiting the US and watching a game on TV was suddenly really painful, with its extra hour (literally) of commercials interspersed. Then, last season, the NFL sold their Gamepass service to DAZN, who immediately ruined it. The rep…