An idea for a new revenue stream for the NFL

that gets a rec…..

AS for your idea? very interesting….

 the problem..direct tv has the contract for the sunday tickect.

many other cable companies want it but its direct tv in sole…they shell out alot of money for it.. until its contract is up other companies is not getn jack..

plus 10 dollars a game? no way buddy they probably want to see like 20+ ..and at least 250+ for the season

u pay and u have access to games that season..im not sure if you can watch them live or not

But, since I would imagine Direct TV only holds U.S. rights, you are prob onto something. I know ESPN shows games at least in Europe, that would be very interesting to look into.

But I can’t see it feasible because the NFL is probably making a ton more money from DirectTV owning the rights to Sunday ticket. So it’d be a step backwards for them

And at FiTaT maybe DirectTV knew it would pull so many customers and be able to lock so many people into long term contracts or has numbers to support that even if people leave that can always entice them back with a SundayTicket, that DirectTV has paid a huge premium to retain exclusive rights. I know I would.

Right now it’s either network or Sunday Ticket, and for those that don’t want to spend upwards of what $300 for a season to watch the Cowboys only or to watch those few Cowboys games that aren’t broadcast nationally and in their area, this is for us.

Give fans an option and they’ll choose what best fits them. More people would take this I think that wouldn’t otherwise want to pay for the whole shebang from DirecTV, or can’t afford it. But they would jump to get a single game or season if that option were available.

I agree though that it isn’t likely at present because DirecTV would pitch a serious fit. But what they wouldn’t realize is that they would become the cream of the crop, that everyone aspires to like the 60" HDTV in the living room that many of us would wish we could stick in there. Most of us have to settle for less than that, though. What if your options were between a CRT 30" SDTV for a pittance or a 60" HDTV for $5000, and nothing in between? That’s like what is currently the case with Sunday Ticket and network broadcasts.

That doesn’t seem fair to me.

You can’t sell exclusive rights to one company and then basically get another company selling the same thing in pieces. I get that it would be smarter and give us better options but it just doesn’t work like that.

I travel a lot and the ability to watch games online would be great. NFL.com only has radio for games in the US but stream games online outside of the US to subscibers.

to buy just Cowboys games here in Cali …. but I’m not paying $300 for Sunday Ticket. F that noise.

I want my a la carte programming ! I do not need 5 home garden channels, lifetime, 9 news channels, another 8 shopping channels, or CBS. And that is just on the standard cable package. Its 2011 people, I want the dallas area Fox channel for my football games, I want of course the “local” channels for news and same timezone programming. I want NFLn, Redzone channel and a few others. Let me pay for the channels I want!

Its my TV and I want it NOW!

but it can stimulate creative thinking on what we would LIKE to see, that we know is actually technologically even if the usual financial interests continue to hand us crap and call it cake. We all know they can do better. When we actually demand it, we’ll get it, if we scream for it loud enough and make it clear enough.

We wanted more scoring and more exciting games (overall anyway) so the best way to cause that was to make the passing game more powerful and successful. They did that. They thought that it would attract more fans (and revenue, by the way). It did. Give the fans what they want and they will come.

Stop giving us the business, Roger.

that shows all the games,
and all I pay is whatever I spend on food and drink.
And, for that, I not only get to see my team every week, but I get the commeradorie that comes with watching them with a host of fellow fans.
Problem solved.

but service is not available in the US (or Canada or Mexico).

Streams in HD – pretty good quality. Also uses a special player you have to download (pretty sure that is to try to protect the streams from being recorded). Able to pause and I think ff and rew. Also no ads.

Last time I used it it was around $25 for a weekend’s games (all of them) – and around $250 for a full season of games for one team. You couldn’t just buy a single game.

Because the Cowboys are popular and doing ok over the last few years we get around 10 games a season screened here anyway – so I have bought the ocassional game as a filler if they miss an important one. But if you go for someone like KC you may only get 2 games screened down here – then its probably a better deal just to buy the season.

In the last month they have just started streaming NFL Network for $5 a month ($50 a year).