DirecTV is awesome but.... I wouldn't mind poaying for only the games I want. I'm a Jets fan living in LA and I have no choice but to shell out the $250 for the NFL package. I love it, but it would be nice if there was another option or two.
Not sure about the two versions but I get Nimiq 91 and Nimiq 82. Thanks for the info. I will surely check it out this time.
He is referring to the NFL Sunday Ticket by DirecTV, which is $299. http://www.dish-television.com/2008/07/09/overpriced-directv-sunday-ticket/ Im assuming you are referring to the monthly services, which are on top of the $299 NFL Sunday Ticket costing us nearly $500 for the the four months. Edit: Just saw your last post about someone getting it for 10 straight yrs. That seems very odd because they never gave me the discounted price and kept on going up every yr until I told DTV to STFU and GTF out of my house...or something like that.
Its still a great bargain, even for the newbies. I am a season ticket holder so with going to 8 games a year, that leaves 9 weeks to stay home and watch so its not worth it. My buddy has Superfan so he gets an internet ID and password to watch an additional game on the computer so I gave him my siruis Internet ID so he can listen to Mad Dog and howard and I watch NFl ticket on the my 19 inch laptop 9 weeks a year. Anyone with NFL ticket and superfan can get games on the computer so find a friend who does not know this and push them to get an ID and password and bingo, NFL ticket without the dish and yes I can watch any game or the red zone
No way the NFL let's this happen. The NFL is the number 1 sport in the country for a reason...every Sunday you can watch games for free. If the networks go to pay per view, the league will drop like a rock in popularity.
If this really happened, people would flock to bars. I would. The NFL has no way really of charging the bars extra just because they're showing it to more people. The cost for the bar wouldn't be significant compared to the revenue brought in by the extra people. The only problem would be that bars would get overcrowded. In the event that the NFL did this, streaming wouldn't really be an option. If the NFL was actually charging for every game, they'd have a bunch of people scouring the Internet for streams and getting them shut down. It's already difficult to keep a stream up. It'll be that much worse if it's PPV. So I'd either go to a bar or buy with some friends. We split the cost and watch it together.
Nah, It's like a dope dealer. Gives the good stuff free for 50 years, then when your totally addicted. Bam. Big time price. I don't know how old you are, but if 20 years ago someone told me people would be paying 10's on thousands of dollars just to have the right to give teams more money for tickets, I would have though you lost your mind. It's hard to believe it's happening. People will pay. For the very reason you said. How many other things can you do on Sunday afternoon, that you really love, for say $25. People will scream about it, but they will pay it.
Of course they do. Direct TV now charges bars in accordance with how many people they can sit. Bar fee's for The Ticket are much much higher then you would pay. it is still a good deal for the bars. Now they are packed from noon until 9pm
My dad is a master negotiator. I wish I knew what he says to them, but this is the case. He has had Directv since day 1 and is a very loyal customer. They hook him up with the original price because he orders the NFL Ticket every year. Sucks because I thought that I was gonna have to pay 160, and now I gotta pay 280. Its worth it to me. My Sundays are the best days of the week from September to December, by far. Paying 20 bucks to have such a glorious day is well worth it to me.
In Connecticut it's about $275 for the season. I'd have to go look at the bills but I think it was $55 a month for five months and they threw in a bunch of stuff I'd never use anyway.
I just looked at my previous bills online and it costs me $349.00 a year for Sunday Ticket with Super Fan which gives me the games in HD. That breaks down to $21.81 for me to watch all the Jets games. I can't beat that price at all. If I were to go to a bar I would easily spend $100 for my wife and I, who is a diehard Eagles fan. So if I break it down even more it comes out to $10.90 for each of us to watch our team play on Sunday. I can't beat it.
It could just be my faulty memory, but it seems like when i was younger, you got two games sunday morning, two games sunday afternoon, and one game monday night broadcast on nbc,cbs, and fox for free. Last year i remember getting 1 game shown on sundays sometimes. I'd flip over to nbc or cbs looking for the second game and they would be showing bowling or some shit. Thank god for internet streams. My state only got 2 jets games last year i think. I don't understand why they can't just stick with fox, nbc, cbs, maybe a game or two on espn. It's not like nobody watches espn. They cover that many networks they'd be making a fortune on advertising. PPV is ghetto for pretty much anything. This reminds me of when chicks stopped showing their tits for free because they realized they could charge 24.95 a month on the internet for it. Guess what ladies,we got streams for that too.
$100? It costs almost nothing for me because I buy very little. If the prices are excessive, I simply won't eat during the game and just have a beer.
Well if the Jets play at 1 and the Eagles play at 4 or either way then yes it would. Think about it, I'm not just paying for my food and drinks but the wife's also. Even at only 5 beers each thats an easy $40 not including food. Yes it could easily reach $100. If we just go out for a night to the bar we spend about $70 and we are not there for 4 hours or more.
It's about self-control. Five beers each? If I want to watch the game at an affordable cost, I'm not spending $100 at a bar. I'll go to a bar and spend maybe $5 and not more.
well I could deal with it if they did it by team, I mean personally I dont go out of my way to watch all of the teams in the league, just for the Jets. I mean as long as playoff and the Super bowl are on networks I dont have a problem
how in christs name do you go into a bar and spend no more than $5? you must not drink cuz if you do that is absolutely impossible
i highly doubt that cable cos will pick up sunday ticket. its just not worth the money. the sat providers are taking it in the ass on the deal they currently have and i am sure will take it again. cable has no reason to do it. there just arent enough people who would purchase the thing. especially for the amount of money that the scumbags in the nfl want to charge. its amazing reading this thread and seeing all of these posts about how 250 isnt that bad or 10 bucks a game wouldnt be that bad. its amazing because i would have never imagined paying for any kind of football 10 years ago and now there are so many that think its a good deal. bottom line is you are all getting fucked in the ass by the nfl and are now actually happy about it. there is no way in HELL i will ever pay for anything that has to do with an nfl game. fuck that they can shove it straight up their own ass, or yours if you let them. this is the group that will try to do it though. i have said for some time now that goodell will sink this league and this is a step i can definitely see him making. these guys are the scummiest of the scum and will suck you dry for every penny they can.
I drink, but not a lot. I don't go out looking to get drunk. I wouldn't drink more than two beers. There are a number of reasons for this, first and foremost being that I need to get home afterwards.
FYI, TV networks have always lost money on football. They charge advertisers money for showing commercials during games, but basically they show you a lot of other ads for the rest of their primetime schedule, which is how they recoup it. Think of Jets games on CBS? You get about 1 "Two and a half men" spot every 20 minutes. CBS makes some money back on the viagra & levitra commercials they constantly show (why everyone who watches NFL has to have a broken penis, I don't know) but they basically spread the cost of the NFL out over their entire lineup, and end up positive at the end, because they think if you watch football on Sunday that you'll watch Letterman on Monday, etc. FYI, Germany went PPV for their top Soccer league a few years ago (bigger to them than NFL is to us, as it is their # 1 sport by far), fans went fucking nuts and they had to relent when the company with the contract went belly up due to poor management. But, fans spent the better part of a year or two not getting their games, or paying out the ass for them. Could it happen here too? I think so, but you need someone to come up with a plan that says they can make more from PPV than they do in billions from the networks, who can spread the losses out. So...I think we're safe for now, but it still may be coming. Remember that Yankee games went black on Cablevision for a season when YES network started. Having it free on CBS is great, but, it could become a pay-only option in the future. And, as for the DirecTV deal, the coup of that deal- and why they paid so much money for it- was that they had Season Ticket exclusivity for the first few years. Cable didn't have the option to offer that package because they got outbid. The empty-PSL/blackout arguement is interesting. I lived in LA for 2 years when the Raiders weren't on local TV because they played in the 100k seat coliseum, and couldn't sell out their games. I think the networks would pop a friggin' vein if the NFL told them they had to swallow blacking out 20m viewers in the largest media market just for Woody Johnson's 25k seat package. It would be cheaper for them to pay him off.
