Several reasons that I do not watch NFL footbal any longer.
Executive Summary: The NFL has turned on its fans and is trying to milk them for every dollar.
Detail:
1. Seat licenses are ridiculously expensive, runnning to as much as 30,000.
2. After the the seat license is purchased, youthen have to buy season tickets which are ridiculously overpriced.
3. When coming into a new town, the NFL arranges with local banks to fund seat reast licenses through the use of home equity loans. Ridiculous.
4. The NFl is too restrictive on the use of Superbowl and other surrounding copyrights.
5. The Big One> Haviing been involved in a small way in TV, nothing goes on the air that is not scripted, including ad libs. Janet Jackson's breast shot was most likely written and rehearsed before air time. The claim that it was a wardrobe malfuntion is absurd.
Remember the NFL doesn't claim anything about Janet Jackson incident being anything other than it being MTV's f$%^up. As such they've banned MTV from ever having anything to do with any NFL production again, and to restore goodwill when the NFL contracts came up for renewal Viacom released CBS off on their own so it no longer has even the slightest relationship to MTV. I agree it wasn't an accident, but the people who planned it apparently not only did a good job of keeping the NFL in the dark but also the guys in the CBS production booth (thus the apparently "oh sh!t" cutaway to a blimp shot before the song was fully over).