The NFL, UFC, and NBA want to speed up the process of removing illegal sports streams

[VaqueroTD]

Exactly. I don't need every team and every game. I'd gladly pay to watch the 'boys when they're not televised nationally or broadcasted locally. It should be a simple process to implement but I believe the cooperate greed prevents this....

I would support an MMA/Boxing Pay-Per-View format. NOT that $50-$100 price tag. LOL But let us pick the games. I'll pay for every Cowboys game. (Unless we have a Campo 5-11 threepeat again, it may get hard to justify.) Let us pick the MNF, SNF, Playoff, etc games we want to pay for. Instead of blackout rules, just charge more for local viewers. I guess the local and high school infrastructure in place for sports is enough to keep kids going, but I do sometimes worry about these pro leagues and what they're doing to the future of sports with kids not able to see the games like they used to. We all had sports heroes growing up that inspired us to play. Kids can't even watch NBA for free anymore, Heavyweight boxing going to cost you a ton, and gone are the days when most fathers would take their kids to games regularly because even the nose bleeds usually cost a fortune.

 

[foofighters]

If I can't watch the game via what I currently have, I am finding something else to do. Go ahead, NFL, keep pushing me because I already have issues with you. Keep adding more...

 

[Mac_MaloneV1]

I would support an MMA/Boxing Pay-Per-View format. NOT that $50-$100 price tag. LOL But let us pick the games. I'll pay for every Cowboys game. (Unless we have a Campo 5-11 threepeat again, it may get hard to justify.) Let us pick the MNF, SNF, Playoff, etc games we want to pay for. Instead of blackout rules, just charge more for local viewers. I guess the local and high school infrastructure in place for sports is enough to keep kids going, but I do sometimes worry about these pro leagues and what they're doing to the future of sports with kids not able to see the games like they used to. We all had sports heroes growing up that inspired us to play. Kids can't even watch NBA for free anymore, Heavyweight boxing going to cost you a ton, and gone are the days when most fathers would take their kids to games regularly because even the nose bleeds usually cost a fortune.

By October, there's something like 20 teams in that Campo mode.

PPV won't work because nobody will buy them, because most of the league isn't worth watching.

 

[DallasEast]

A big problem - not only in sports, but in entertainment in general - is the greed motive behind the now-ubiquitous subscription model. You can't just buy an online ticket to a single out-of-market NFL game, you have to subscribe to an entire season. Add that to dozens of other patchwork entertainment subscriptions one now requires to watch TV or read newspapers, and most people inevitably get tapped out. As long as it's considered reasonable "market value" to pay pro athletes $40M/year (more, next year, and the year after that), the consumer is going to be asked to fund it. It's all gotten quite out of hand.

Subscriptions like NFL Sunday Ticket are tied directly to league revenue sharing. All teams receive an equal cut.

I have always could not care less about the rest of the league or their fans. It would interest me if Jerry Jones could orchestrate some type of cable or streaming package exclusively for Dallas Cowboys games. I am certain he would price gouge but perhaps it would be more affordable than what Directv used to and what YouTube is charging.

 

[zrinkill]

Game of thrones proved that you do not lose money when people watch the shows on illegal streams.

People these days watch the games on many different platforms many times

 

[Mac_MaloneV1]

Subscriptions like NFL Sunday Ticket are tied directly to league revenue sharing. All teams receive an equal cut.

I have always could not care less about the rest of the league or their fans. It would interest me if Jerry Jones could orchestrate some type of cable or streaming package exclusively for Dallas Cowboys games. I am certain he would price gouge but perhaps it would be more affordable than what Directv used to and what YouTube is charging.

NFL would never let him.

And I don't think it'd be possible to get enough subscribers to surpass league revenue sharing from TV deals anyway.

 

[Runwildboys]

If they wouldn't cost so much, maybe people would want to get subscriptions!!

Exactly!

 

[Reid1boys]

Keep supporting corporate greed pal.

businesses have NO OBLIGATION to provide their service to you for free anymore than a restaurant should be giving you free steak dinners. But I bet you wave old glory in support of capitilism???? no??

 

[Reid1boys]

If they wouldn't cost so much, maybe people would want to get subscriptions!!

what is "Reasonable?"
Is it fair to judge "Reasonable," based upon someone living in poverty????

 

[Reid1boys]

Must be nice getting paid $40+ million a year, free first-class lodging, flights and seats in owners' boxes to watch games in person, while not offering your employers' customer base more affordable viewing options but aggressively going after ones that are.

wow....

 

[DallasEast]

NFL would never let him.

And I don't think it'd be possible to get enough subscribers to surpass league revenue sharing from TV deals anyway.

Of course, the league would not allow it. Otherwise, Jones would have done so decades ago, lol.

Hypothetically, I could see Jones building a cable broadcasting package rivaling the New York Yankees nearly $250 million a year YES Network. That substitution would be competitive to the franchise's share of Sunday Ticket-only revenue.

Again, this will never happen. Just a what if opinion.

 

[Runwildboys]

Subscriptions like NFL Sunday Ticket are tied directly to league revenue sharing. All teams receive an equal cut.

I have always could not care less about the rest of the league or their fans. It would interest me if Jerry Jones could orchestrate some type of cable or streaming package exclusively for Dallas Cowboys games. I am certain he would price gouge but perhaps it would be more affordable than what Directv used to and what YouTube is charging.

If anyone could pull it off, Jerry could.

 

[Reid1boys]

They get paid by advertisers. Eyes are still on advertisers with pirate streams.

This will end up costing them billions just like the password sharing crackdown as people will just do without. They pirate it in the first place because the content isn't worth paying for.

isnt worth paying for but damn sure worth watching, right??lol

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

Industries are supposed to adapt or die.

Big corps never cared about shutting down mom and pops. Now that THEY are getting robbed and threatened...they expect people to care?

Just do an ala carte 5 bucks a pop game. Viola.....you captured the freebie market you object to.


Oh wait....5 bucks isn't enough profit to capture what you would never have had to begin with, right? Must purchase the 300 dollar package deal we were avoiding in the first place?

Take the 50 bucks most of the riff raff would need to spend to see their games not shown on local PAID tv. Roll around in your piles of billions.

 

[Reid1boys]

If I can't watch the game via what I currently have, I am finding something else to do. Go ahead, NFL, keep pushing me because I already have issues with you. Keep adding more...

like the NFL cares about your issues. They are the most powerful business on TV.

 

[DallasEast]

If anyone could pull it off, Jerry could.

I am a huge Jones critic but have never dismissed his ability to make cha-CHING!

 

[Runwildboys]

what is "Reasonable?"
Is it fair to judge "Reasonable," based upon someone living in poverty????

Reasonable might be judged on what the majority would be willing to pay.

 

[Reid1boys]

you guys are no different than those people running into stores as a flash mob and ransacking the place. But I bet you sit on your couch blasting those people that run into those stores and steal products.... YOU get to decide what is a fair price and what is not??????
You think a Guccii purse is "Worth," what they charge? But you dont need to buy a Gucci purse, because you can buy a different purse.

The NFL says you dont like what we charge, go watch something else..... ohhhhhh, but there is noting else you want to watch that compares to the enjoyment you get from Cowboys games.
Watch how you want.. im no moralist, but dont be such a hypocrite and blast the league for what they charge for their product. They charge about 20 bucks per weekend. What does UFC charge for their event???

 

[thunderpimp91]

By October, there's something like 20 teams in that Campo mode.

PPV won't work because nobody will buy them, because most of the league isn't worth watching.

Gotta disagree with you there. With 14 teams making the playoffs now very few teams will have nothing to play for prior to Thanksgiving, and most will be mathematically in it up until week 15 or so. The only issue I really see with it is flex scheduling. You get to week 16-18 and of course Fox/CBS want the biggest ratings possible, then the primetime slots are going to the teams in contention too. On the flip side even if the Cowboys got flexed to a primetime game week 16 I may still be intrigued enough to buy an Eagles game or someone else in the hunt to watch earlier in the day. I'm actually shocked that we don't have Sunday Ticket packages that allow viewers to subscribe to their team's games for the year then have an additional pay per game option.

I think a lot of idiots would end up paying more money than the standard Sunday Ticket fee....especially more than the discounted packages they sold. And for the record, I would be included in that group of idiots.

 

[CowboysRule]

Keep supporting corporate greed pal.

Did you read my post? I said I don't pay for the services as is.