Such an odd business model
As their viewership goes to zero, their price will approach infinity in a failed attempt to maintain their revenue stream. It actually amazes me that there are people who will spend that kind of money to watch the scum that make up the NFL.
That’s expensive but if you are a fan it’s still a good deal. I don’t follow American football but I buy the MLB package. It costs less than going out to a couple of games.
Good! As viewership drops next year and years thereafter the ticket price will soon be $1000. What a business model!
It’s hard to blame them. This last season has shown that there are still plenty of fools willing to pay out that kind of money for vicarious entertainment.
I had a free season of NFL Sunday Ticket when I signed up with DTV a few years ago. I was still a football fan then, but I really didn’t make much use of it. It had a feature where you could have a bunch of games on one screen, and you could cycle through the audio or go to full screen of the game that interested you. Pretty cool. Problem was, I was not interested in most of the games. I basically only followed the Texas teams and was not interested in every game being played that day.
Seriously? People pay that much to watch football games!
A 60 minute NFL football game takes about 3-1/2 hors to play, and with the clock running most of the time between plays, there is a maximum of 14-15 minutes of actual action on the field ("Action" being defined as starting with the snap and ending with the whistle).
A couple of years ago, I measured the cumulative "action" time during two complete NFL football games. I used a stop watch, which I clicked "ON" at the snap and "OFF" at the whistle. One of the games had only 12 minutes, 36 seconds of action on the field. The second was a bit more "action-packed" - it included 14 minutes, 38 seconds of on-field "action".
Even assuming a more generous average of 15 minutes of on-field action per game, watching a 3-1/2 hour game (210 minutes) means the viewer spends almost 93% of his time watching commercials, watching grown men stand around on a field and/or listening to dumbass announcers blather on about meaningless crap - with an ever-increasing amount of the blather being about "social justice" garbage instead of the actual game.
I watched about a dozen NFL football games this past season including several playoff games and the superbowl. Due to boredom, I found myself 'multi-tasking' during all of them. I may pass on NFL football completely next season, because even setting aside the offensive behavior of a significant number of players, a boredom coefficient of 0.9286 is simply too high.
And, as far as giving DirecTV $300-$400 of my money for NFL "extras", that is never going to happen.
I totally dumped DirecTV over a year ago. Never going either.
I had subscribed to NFL Sunday Ticket from the time that Directv launched it. This past season, I quit watching it after week 6.
I called Directv and told them to remove my name from the “auto-renew” list and that I would NOT be subscribing to that package in the future.
I have a good gut feeling that I am not alone in this.
One major reason college football is so much better viewing experience is every game is available. So if the CBS SEC game of the week is a snoozer then one can simply switch channels to a more exciting game.
I have had “Sunday Ticket” in the past. DO NOT GET IT!
It costs TOO much. It automatically renews. I had to threaten them to get rid of it.
That’d put food on the table for a month or more.
If you really must watch the NFL, don’t watch it live or pay any attention to sports news. Watch it the next day on youtube with no commercials, takes around 45 minutes for an entire game.
If you really must watch the NFL, don’t watch it live or pay any attention to sports news. Watch it the next day on youtube with no commercials, takes around 45 minutes for an entire game.
I cancelled my automatic renewal to Sunday Ticket a couple of weeks ago, when the NFL doubled down on funding SJW causes. The guy at DirecTV didn’t ask why or try to dissuade me. I guess they are burned out on that approach.
They are going out of biz...
I cancelled mine mid-season last year, and told DirecTv why, to boot.