I don’t get it. People really pay for this?
People pay $10,000 for a personal seat license which gives them the right to buy tickets to the games, but not actually tickets to the games.
Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500
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#82FTA: > The total cost for a football fan who doesn’t have cable to stream all 343 NFL games this season is about $1,700. The average NFL game is about 3 hours. That's 1,029 hours of content across all games. 1700/1029 = $1.65/hr for the content. That's a lot less than renting a movie. Yes, I know there are ads happening, too. Seems fine.
"content". 1/3 of that is ads. You know what I'm not going to do? Pay for ads.
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#83Is it impossible to think science-fiction wise that soon we will have personal satellites and/or balloons giving us the freedom to watch the games on open stadiums? I understand that flying drones is illegal.
Most people want to see the broadcast, not just the game
I come from a culture where it's common for people to listen to the football[1] match on the radio while watching the players on TV at the same time, effectively splitting the experience.
[1] I mean the football of Messi, Maradona, and Argentina.
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#84Extremely inaccurate and sloppy article. FOX, CBS, NBC, ABC are all free over the air. RedZone doesn’t count because it is not “a game.” You wouldn’t watch every single game and then watch RedZone because you are duplicating content. I have no idea why they’re saying Netflix costs $84 when you’re only subscribing for one month to get the Christmas games. Same deal with Peacock, Amazon Prime Video, ESPN+ you only need…
you would only need ESPN+ for october. there is only one ESPN+ exclusive game. all other ESPN games you get on youtube tv. that would bring you total under $500
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
True but not 100% true. If you’re at a game in person you’d see all the times when gameplay stops for no reason purely for an added TV break and the players stand around on the field. Not a team timeout, just literally a TV timeout that neither team asked for. Go to a high school game then go to an NFL game and you’ll see a massive difference.
Sure but the players need and appreciate those breaks.
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#86This reminds me of someone showing how expensive apps actually are these days. What used to cost 40 bucks, one time, for the computer version now costs hundreds of dollars to buy all the 'packs' on the mobile version.
Mobile version of what?
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#87Living 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…
NFL plus has the condensed replays usually up same day. Live games definitely way to much ads, but redzone completely fixes that.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure. $2500/yr is a lot, but it's not a completely bonkers amount if it's a a significant hobby for you. There's far more expensive hobbies out there.
> There's far more expensive hobbies out there. I spend about 10k/yr for skiing. Its so expensive but I cant seem to give it up. I don't spend money on anything else and live frugal to justify that.
Pro tip buy a condo in cottonwood heights and skiing becomes a $1000 a year hobby(with a refundable down payment). Plus flights to slc pretty cheap if youre on the west coast. Remote work has been amazing for my skiing
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#89Extremely inaccurate and sloppy article. FOX, CBS, NBC, ABC are all free over the air. RedZone doesn’t count because it is not “a game.” You wouldn’t watch every single game and then watch RedZone because you are duplicating content. I have no idea why they’re saying Netflix costs $84 when you’re only subscribing for one month to get the Christmas games. Same deal with Peacock, Amazon Prime Video, ESPN+ you only need…
you would only need ESPN+ for october. there is only one ESPN+ exclusive game. all other ESPN games you get on youtube tv. that would bring you total under $500
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#90Since I live out-of-market of my home team, on entering the season I am once again considering putting up an OTA DVR at my parent's house and watching all the in-market games. Are there any good out of the box or open source self-hosted Aereo-like services, that let me access OTA broadcasts in another market? I know that things like Tablo exist, but they seem very optimized for same-network use cases rather than remo…
> Are there any good out of the box or open source self-hosted Aereo-like services, that let me access OTA broadcasts in another market?
Jellyfin with an HDHomerun is a pretty nice combo for this.