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To: discostu
This may not apply everywhere but here in Boston one could,long ago,get Celtics games,Red Sox games, *and* Bruins games on free TV...over the air. Today you must have cable TV *and* sign up for a sports package at extra cost. That didn't happen without the support of the accountants working for these teams.

Yet you're insisting that it can't happen with the NFL.

I put it to you that these same accountants will decide if,and when,it happens.

34 posted on 07/12/2026 8:46:09 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Well sure, because they’re always going to chase the money. And the money right now is in streaming, it was in cable until recently, before then broadcast. It’s a business, it exists for money.

But PPV will NEVER be where the money is at. As I already explained. Bidding wars between different “networks” drive the price of the TV packages up, and make the NFL a boatload of money. PPV can’t a bidding war, so that kills it right there.

The accountants understand the basic math, and the basic math is there’s no way in hell the NFL could make $12 billion selling the games on PPV. They’d have to make $35 per person for that. And I’m not saying $35 per viewer, it’s $35 per every single person in the US. With even as great as NFL ratings are they still don’t even reach 10% of the population. So they’ve have to get to around $500/year/ fan. That’s not gonna happen. And they know. These same accountants already decided, it will never happen.


37 posted on 07/12/2026 8:54:53 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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