Now remember that the people at home have better seats than anybody in a stadium. Therefore they deserve to pay a premium to watch an NFL game at home.
The average football fan watches three games a week. That's $75 times 80,000,000 viewers and that equals $2 billion dollars in pure revenue.
Now multiply that over a 17 week NFL season (remember bye week) and you have $34 billion.
Now for the playoffs, you will want to charge $100 a game for the Wild Card week and given that 100,000,000 people will watch all four games, now you have $10 billion right there.
Ditto for the Divisional playoffs - another $10 billion
Now for the AFL and NFL title games, you will want to charge $250 a game and 150,000,000 will watch and you rake in $37.5 billion.
Finally the Super Bowl. Some 250,000,000 around the world will be watching. Charge $500 per person and that's a Super $125 billion.
So with me in charge, I will bring in a total of $216.5 billion in TV revenue.
I think you will need different economic times to accomplish that.
Interesting perspective. Part of the problem is that very few people would pay $25 to watch an NFL game at home. And once the number of viewers declines, the television advertising revenue will decline, too.
Your proposal is interesting, but that’s $3000 per year to watch the games that you propose. I doubt the average fan would be willing (or able) to pay that. I am a casual fan; I usually watch at least part of a game on Sunday, but there is no way I would pay $25 to watch a game.
A pay-per-view option is interesting, but it needs to be set in the more $2.99-$5.99 price range, and it should only be out-of-market games. But the network affiliates wouldn’t like that, so it’s probably a non-starter.