NFL Network: Great Idea

[Dallas]

Running this game free on the other networks thus allowing everyone see the game and network in action?

Now all of the plugging they are doing for themselves.

Brilliant.

 

[AmishCowboy]

Brilliant idea, One big Commercial for the NFL Network!. CBS and NBC were had!.

 

[Hypnotoad]

Brilliant idea, One big Commercial for the NFL Network!. CBS and NBC were had!.

They aren't paying anything for this and get to put in their own commercials.

 

[LeonDixson]

Brilliant idea, One big Commercial for the NFL Network!. CBS and NBC were had!.

I don't think CBS and NBC really care, but the cable companies that carry them have been had.

 

[stealth]

isn't jerry pulling the strings for the nfl network now?

 

[Hostile]

Running this game free on the other networks thus allowing everyone see the game and network in action?

Now all of the plugging they are doing for themselves.

Brilliant.

I agree. The commercial of the people in the restaurant bagging on the channels they do have is genius.

 

[kmp77]

I agree. The commercial of the people in the restaurant bagging on the channels they do have is genius.

Yeah, that was an awesome commercial. Can't believe the cable companies allowed themselves to be owned. I hope alot of people call now asking about the channel.

 

[Use Your Illusion]

Any good the NFL Network is doing for itself is negated by having Bryant Gumble as your play-by-play guy. He's probably enough to make some people not want the channel.

 

[Hostile]

Yeah, that was an awesome commercial. Can't believe the cable companies allowed themselves to be owned. I hope alot of people call now asking about the channel.

The way to make them cave is real simple. Get as many customers as you can to call and complain. Not once a day either. Keep calling and tie up their phone lines. Make it an all day thing. Stay on them and promise you're going to keep it up.

Make some fliers and explain the plan. Tell people in the flier to tell their friends. They'll either make the decision to add the channel or they will cease to be able to do any other business.

 

[StylisticS]

Yeah, that was an awesome commercial. Can't believe the cable companies allowed themselves to be owned. I hope alot of people call now asking about the channel.

The commercial with the guy talking about women channels was absolutely funny.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Any good the NFL Network is doing for itself is negated by having Bryant Gumble as your play-by-play guy. He's probably enough to make some people not want the channel.

IT was kinda horrendous to have him on three networks at one time. Couldn't get away from that guy on a bet!

 

[Bob Sacamano]

they messed up, forgetting Gumbel still broadcasts games

 

[Dodger12]

The way to make them cave is real simple. Get as many customers as you can to call and complain. Not once a day either. Keep calling and tie up their phone lines. Make it an all day thing. Stay on them and promise you're going to keep it up.

Make some fliers and explain the plan. Tell people in the flier to tell their friends. They'll either make the decision to add the channel or they will cease to be able to do any other business.

Hos, I wish it was that simple. They didn't cave when satelite carriers like Direct TV and the Dish Network started to undermine their customer base, I just don't think they'll care now. The problems with the cable companies are probably pretty standard across the board and in most states: overpriced for what they offer, minimal HD channels (if any) and poor customer service.

I went to DTV two weeks after having cable and my cable box malfunctioned. They made me wait a week, missed that appointment then tried to make me wait another week. By the time they came to fix the box, I had already ordered and installed DTV. I just told the cable guy to get the cable company's equipment and leave. No follow-up call, no letter from the cable company....nothing which kind of surprised me.

Honestly, with the way cable companies have historically treated their customers, I don't know why most people haven't switched to satelite carrier already, even without the NFL Channel controversy.

 

[jchocolate82]

yeah I soon as I saw them doing the Joes diner commercials complaining about the cable companies I was like damn the NFL was genious on that stuff. Take that cable companies:

 

[morieeel]

yeah I soon as I saw them doing the Joes diner commercials complaining about the cable companies I was like damn the NFL was genious on that stuff. Take that cable companies:

Yea, it was funny reading the ESPN article before the game that stated that the NFL just made a huge concession/cave in to Cable and probably will be on the verge of folding the NFLN.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?id=3169890

 

[silverbear]

Running this game free on the other networks thus allowing everyone see the game and network in action?

Now all of the plugging they are doing for themselves.

Brilliant.

Well, they were pretty much FORCED into showing the game free on the other networks, so they don't get credit for that... but I have gotten a kick out of the way they've promoted themselves during the course of the broadcast... I don't blame them for a second... folks who have cable should check out the website that the NFLN was promoting, perhaps there's a way in there to make their voices heard, to put a little heat on the cable companies...

People want to blame the NFL for their network not being on cable, but they're the ones trying to get the cable companies to make it available as part of basic packaging, rather than as a premium channel that the cable companies can charge you extra to receive... so from where I sit, this time it's the NFL that's on the side of Joe Six-Pack, and the cable companies trying to stick it to him... yet Congress is leaning on the NFL??

That doesn't seem right...

 

[silverbear]

Any good the NFL Network is doing for itself is negated by having Bryant Gumble as your play-by-play guy. He's probably enough to make some people not want the channel.

Real football fans wouldn't care if Paul Rubens (Pee Wee Herman) was broadcasting the game, they just want to see the flippin' game...

Which is not to defend that gawdawful "announcer"... he actually makes the incredibly insipid Chris Collinsworth sound good by comparison...

 

[silverbear]

Yea, it was funny reading the ESPN article before the game that stated that the NFL just made a huge concession/cave in to Cable and probably will be on the verge of folding the NFLN.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?id=3169890

Once again, ESPN doesn't have a freakin' CLUE... putting this game on the networks was a public relation coup for the NFL, and showed those in the general public who haven't been paying attention who the real villain is...

Using commercial time during the game to state their case was tactical brilliance...

Oh, and Kerry and Spector et al can eat my shorts...

 

[jay cee]

Well, they were pretty much FORCED into showing the game free on the other networks, so they don't get credit for that... but I have gotten a kick out of the way they've promoted themselves during the course of the broadcast... I don't blame them for a second... folks who have cable should check out the website that the NFLN was promoting, perhaps there's a way in there to make their voices heard, to put a little heat on the cable companies...

People want to blame the NFL for their network not being on cable, but they're the ones trying to get the cable companies to make it available as part of basic packaging, rather than as a premium channel that the cable companies can charge you extra to receive... so from where I sit, this time it's the NFL that's on the side of Joe Six-Pack, and the cable companies trying to stick it to him... yet Congress is leaning on the NFL??

That doesn't seem right...

You might be right about the NFL being on the side of Joe Six-pack in this instance, but I am so jaded by the professional sports landscape these days, I don't believe any league actually cares about the fans.

Which is why as much as I hate the cable companies, I find it hard to place all the blame on them. I have no more trust in the NFL than I do the Cable companies.

 

[RCowboyFan]

You might be right about the NFL being on the side of Joe Six-pack in this instance, but I am so jaded by the professional sports landscape these days, I don't believe any league actually cares about the fans.

Which is why as much as I hate the cable companies, I find it hard to place all the blame on them. I have no more trust in the NFL than I do the Cable companies.

Yeah, but, Cable is the Government Enforced Monopoly, thats the difference. Anyone can start a Rival NFL and see if they beat NFL.

But Goverment rules prohibhit setting up a rival Cable company in the same region. Though that is slowly changing due to Telephone companies providing programming through Telephone wires.

Its such a scam, that when Government forces Monopoly, its not against law, but when free Market enterprise does become a dominant company, automatically a shadow of Anti-Trust law creeps up.