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Worst public relations move in years the NFL made was restricting games to the NFL network. I didn't think there was anybody who couold ever make the big cable conglomerates look like the good guys until the NFL went on this boondoggle. Unload those games to ESPN and forget this mistake ever happened.

" I didn't think there was anybody who couold ever make the big cable conglomerates look like the good guys until the NFL went on this boondoggle"

The "bad guys" have always been the scum-bag cable companys like cable vision that wanted to charge people to be able to get the nfl channel.
That has been the problem, continued unbridled greed on the part of the cable monopoly's. $135/mon. for TV is tantamount to rape.

Wouldn't it make sense($$$$) for the NFL to:.Make the Sunday Ticket available for all cable companies just like HBO,or offer every game as pay per view for say $10-20?I am a Steeler fan living in the Tampa market and am real sick of that crappy franchise rammed down my throat EVERY week.I would gladly pay $20 in my home rather than a bar.

I guess the NFL figures they can get Disney to force the cable operators to wedge the NFL Network in the same way they've managed to squeeze ESPNClassic and ESPNU into the cable box. It's a backdoor way of upping the price.

The NFL Network is a sham designed to pilch money from all of us, even people that hate football. Do away with it, the sooner the better.

here's an idea. nfl network work out the deal rather than dragging your feet and refusing to budge off your asking price..

ie: do business.

Dead Kennedy, quit drinking the kool aid. You blame the cable companies for charging people for the NFL Network. Do you realize how much the NFL is charging the cable companies to show their network?

please change big Rog's disturbing picture

Dumb & Dumber!

ESPN = Dumb!
NFL = Dumber!

Never before, in my life, have I seriously thought about not watching football. Way to alienate a huge population base NFL. Guess what? Some people don't have that extra money lying around to line your pockets. I am one of the lucky ones in that I live in the same area as my pro team so I can watch every game. What about soldiers overseas who live for the big games? They get the AFN feed only. What are you going to do about them?

Hooah, the NFL allows AFN to show the NFL Network. NFL Total Access is on every day (just got done watching it) and it showed all the NFL Network games last year. The NFL treats the military very well. Every Prime Time game is shown on AFN. And on Sundays 3 early games and 3 late games are shown live. Other then having Sunday ticket, there is nobody who has access to as many live games as those who get AFN overseas.

Time for Senator Arlen Spectacle to have a inquiry !!!

"Time for Senator Arlen Spectacle to have a inquiry !!!"

Time indeed!

Am I ever going to see the NFL Network on Jim Dolan's monopolizing Cablevision system?

You know the NFL Network is desperate to solve this if they're partnering with The ESPNs. The NYT piece said the partnership was with ESPN; TV Week says its with ESPN Classic:

http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/06/nfl_espn_talk_nfl_network_part.php

I don't understand the great fan uproar. It's only eight games out of the entire season. They air on local TV in the NFL markets involved, and NFL-N has been good about adding online streaming coverage too. And you're crazy if you think the NFL secretly or eventually wants to place all of its games on NFL-N and bypass all of that money that CBS, Fox, NBC & ESPN pay. Even if they were on every basic cable tier in America, they'd never make as much money nor attract the viewers they would without terrestrial network television.

The NFL Regular Season at this time consists of 16 games. You take those 8 games in your post and it converts to half the season's games. Does this help you to understand the great fan uproar?

I'd be all for being able to buy any game weekly via your cable or satellite provider. I use Cox and the tier with the NFL Network is only 2 bucks a month. But with Direct TV having the football package I'm stuck seeing every Kansas City game every single week. I keep debating about switching to Direct TV but keep HOPING the NFL will make all games more viable for anyone to see. I'm on the verge of giving up hope, though.

AMEN DCruiser.

Who to hate most...cable companies or the NFL.Two big monopolies fighting over how can screw the sports fan the most.

I get the NFL network, so I don't get it at all. Totally happy with Direct TV. Cable companies could give it to their viewers as well. Greed on both sides, but what's new? Most people don't care about all of the games, but notice when it's one they want. Pay per view, or on demand, or whatever, seems an easy fix to me.

Lady's Coach Belicat said "The NFL Regular Season at this time consists of 16 games. You take those 8 games in your post and it converts to half the season's games. Does this help you to understand the great fan uproar?"

Uhm, there are 32 teams that play 16 games each. That is 256 games. Only 8 (3%) are shown on the NFL network.

I have Direct TV so I have that network. I watched 1 of the games last season (Dallas/Greenbay). The announcers are just plain terrible and the matchups are classic 'who cares' type games as far as I am concerned.