The problem is access to sports.
Remember when MLB was on regular old TV?
Now you have to buy access to it. They wonder why 394 people showed up at a White Sox game a month ago. They actually counted.
NFL is going to make that mistake too. Sports was part of the ‘opiate of the masses’. The ‘circus’ part of ‘bread and circus’. Problem is only the plutocrats can afford to watch it.
I have DirecTV because it is the only way to watch the Astros games on TV. And my wife is addicted to the Golf Channel. All these posters who don't need cable or satellite because they've got Hulu must not watch what my wife and I watch.