What if the NFL broadcast a game and no one watched it?

NFL Network and the NFL RedZone are two of my favorite sports channels around. I was over at a friends house a little while back and found out Chater cable doesn’t even have these channels! It makes me glad I’m a subscriber/employee of DISH Network, not only do I have access to all these great channels but DISH also offers them at the lowest all digital price in the nation.

I all ready pay too much for cable TV, I will not pay more to watch NFL football. From this point on, I plan on boycotting all NFL games except our local team, the hapless Packers. I fully realize that nobody cares if I boycott the other games or not. It's just a matter of being fed up with all of the greedy entities involved and feel like I have to personally take a stand. Greedy league, greedy players, greedy cable companies, only real loser, the fans.

It sucked....the game, the broadcasters, the channel....the whole nine yards.....and, was that Bryant Gumble? Good God, even sports is going down the drain. Couldnt the find anyone else? Put Bryant, and Theisman on the same boat for a Viking funeral.

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I understand, but the thought still works. Any games on the NFL network are extra televised games. CBS, Fox & ESPN are still going to be showing their games. The local markets still get their games on whatever their "Flagship" station is and Direct TV NFL package folks still get all the gammes. So these are extra games for those with the NFL Network, so people should not freak out if their provider does not carry the channel, they are still seeing the games they would before this move.

Does anyone realize that a large portion of your cable bill is due to sports programming? ESPN, FSN, all the super-regionals like NESN, YES and MSG, they all command much more in per-subscriber fees than many of the other channels. It IS out of control and I'm glad that cable companies are beginning to put their feet down on it. They are (surprisingly enough) protecting the consumer here, and they should get more credit for it.

I can gladly go without a few NFL games. For that matter, I don't need NBA TV or Golf Channel either. I'm not sold on a la carte, but I would like ALL sports channels (ESPN included) on a secondary tier. Then again, I'd also like peace in the Middle East, and that's probably more likely to happen.

NFLGOLF netowrk and event hen the golf network must be owned by the actually cable company putting it on al lla time warner cable w/cnn.

Hopefully in the next few years the nfl will blow up with hd boradcasts online and I can tag the video with announcers that I want to hear via a gootube channel. long live the taco revolution. Then I can watcht eh game with the local announcers of the specific markets and hear a nice biased commentary instead of one thatis meant to be PC without anyone taking sides.

As for Brian G's return: give him more than a game. He si a very good commentator and he wasn;t just goo d in the 70's , he called game in the 80's as well, though I wouldmuch rather watch one of those games without all the breaks for tv times out and commercials of the games now. There is no flow to the game. TV ruins everything. Give me a webcast with a running ad and I'll wathc it all day.

in Portland, OR, I was able to watch the game on INHD-- i guess they have a deal with NFLN, since I don't get that channel, but do get the HD grouping from Comcast. I agree with Dan about the game-- listening to Gumbel was AWFUL. and the network seemed to be having some troubles-- there was no yellow line for the first few sets of downs to indicate where the first-down marker was, some of the camera angles were odd, and the feed itself was pretty crackly.

I have DirecTV HD and watched the game on channel 95. In short, worst broadcast ever. I could barely stand to watch it. Listening to Gumbel is like listening to my dad narrate my middle school games on our home video camera. I think local cable companies are doing their customers a favor...

I saw highlights of the game, and what is the deal with that annoying bar on top? It goes all the way across, and it is not way at the top to boot! I hope the get rid of that stupid ass bar in the future.

I have a very small local cable company and there is no way they are going to pick up the NFL Network, even if all 20 of it's customers beg. :) We had it when we use to have DirecTV. My husband loved the NFL Network actually. Still we watched Boston vs Miami tonight because we are bigger college fans than NFL. We did watch some of the Detroit and Dallas game earlier today too. So we didn't miss it and we aren't going to complain. I think the NFL is crazy to broadcast this so that no one can see it.