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Report: NFL keeps late-season package for itself (Here comes NFL Pay Per View!)
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| January 28, 2006
Posted on 01/28/2006 9:16:00 AM PST by Founding Father
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To: G-Man 1
All of the polling indicated this was the pole to take...
To: Richard Kimball
but pay per view ... took boxing from one of the biggest events to being very low on the radar. My thoughts exactly. Don't these guys ever learn? The NFL is something I watch about 15 minutes at a time between mowing the lawn and washing the car. In fact, my interest in all professional sports has been waning for some time.
I much prefer college sports. There is more variety and excitement. I don't want to pay a lot of hard-earned money to some cry-baby spoiled brats in the pro ranks.
To: Founding Father
Good. Let the folks who want the service pay, instead of the current socialized system where everyone pays, whether they want it or not.
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posted on
01/28/2006 9:39:13 AM PST
by
PAR35
To: Shakedown Street
NFL Network is a regular cable/satellite channel, like ESPN. It's not on expanded basic here.
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posted on
01/28/2006 9:41:40 AM PST
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PAR35
To: RabidBartender
Well it looks like I'll get NFL Network soon. If the NFL Plans on showing the Cowboys on it, every cable system in Texas will be forced to add it or face a big backlash.
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posted on
01/28/2006 9:42:39 AM PST
by
The South Texan
(The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Founding Father; All
The NFL Network is not "pay-per-view".
The NFL Network is included in DirecTVs' basic ("Total Choice" & "Total Choice Plus") packages.
DirecTV Packages
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posted on
01/28/2006 9:48:14 AM PST
by
holymoly
(Ahhhhh. Beer so cold it hurts my teeth.)
To: Founding Father
Do the NFL boobs actually think that their wealth comes from fans willing to pay to see their product? Not. Their wealth is derived from the advertisers who salivate at the opportunity to present their product to a monster size audience watching a free football game.
To: Shakedown Street
If I called my local cable company with a demand, it would be that they put everything a la carte.
Pro football wouldn't be one of my choices. (College football would, however.)
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posted on
01/28/2006 9:52:14 AM PST
by
PAR35
To: Arkinsaw; Founding Father; COEXERJ145; Trajan88
That's dumb showing the Thanksgiving day off network. They are messing with a tradition that earned them more than immediate money. They could be shooting themselves in the foot. Thanksgiving used to be a big college football rivalry day before the Dallas Cowboys started playing on Thankgiving back in 1967. If football fans were given the choice between Texas A&M vs Texas on network TV at the same time that the Dallas Cowboys are on pay per view, which game do you think would have higher ratings?
To: Paleo Conservative
the Dallas Cowboys are on pay per viewThe NFL Network is not pay-per-view.
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posted on
01/28/2006 10:00:30 AM PST
by
holymoly
(Ahhhhh. Beer so cold it hurts my teeth.)
To: Founding Father
I much prefer to watch the follow our local high school football season than to subsidize a bunch of professional thugs on the "TeeVee".
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posted on
01/28/2006 10:32:25 AM PST
by
The Duke
To: shempy
Heck, I'd pay to not watch the Viking or the Packers. ;-)
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posted on
01/28/2006 11:08:25 AM PST
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NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: From The Deer Stand
College Ball is more fun, anyway.
NFL is getting to be Rollerball sized.
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posted on
01/28/2006 11:10:42 AM PST
by
Loud Mime
(Republicans protect Americans from terrorists, Democrats protect terrorists from Americans)
To: Loud Mime
This illustrates the great idea that makes capitalism work. If I own it and you want it and we can agree on a price, it's yours, if not it's mine. If enough people agree to pay, this will work for the nfl, if not it won't. We don't need no stink'en laws except the laws of supply and demand. There is no constitutional right to watch football "for free" {whatever that means}. Either pay with your cash or with the sponsor's cash, somebody is going to pay. I love the market.
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posted on
01/28/2006 11:31:38 AM PST
by
USS Alaska
(Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
To: Founding Father
Someday local broadcasters should turn the tables on professional sports and start charging them to air the scores and highlights content they carry in the news. Face it, professional sports is entertainment. It is the only entertainment industry given free air time regularly and promotes the professional sports. If the professional sports won't pay, yank it. As things are now the reporting of professional sports in local news broadcasts are essentially free commercials.
To: Founding Father
GOOD! More time with family and doing stuff in the Real World instead of in front ot TV of computer.
Could Care Less.
GO STILLERS...until I have to PPV. Then fark yunz.
prisoner6
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posted on
01/28/2006 3:06:57 PM PST
by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the left fall out)
To: Founding Father
humm didn't they learn from baseball and hockey? I will NEVER pay for an NFL game.
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posted on
01/28/2006 3:09:18 PM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
To: advance_copy
Its hard to believe they are not only going to take away a turkey game but Skins at Boys?
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posted on
01/28/2006 3:10:09 PM PST
by
winodog
To: Paleo Conservative
I cannot wait for that tv contract (or is it Dr. Pepper?) to be done with so TAMU vs tu reverts back to where it should be... Thanksgiving evening instead of T+1.
And while I'm at it, get Bonfire back on campus (especially to its former home - Duncan Field. I don't care if it is scaled back to a virtual glimmer of its former self... it just needs to burn. Dr. Gates/Board of Regents/State of Texas - settle the law suits and let Stack burn again.
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posted on
01/28/2006 3:10:48 PM PST
by
Trajan88
(www.bullittclub.com)
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