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Originally Posted by LFC_USA
England ain't Italy bro. Isn't it all about the matchday experience?
NFL has/had (might have got rid of it) a rule that if game didn't sell out game was blacked out in that region.
I don't think you can compare England to Italy because England is unique in that it has a thriving lower league. Championship is one of the highest attendance leagues in the world.
That rule makes no sense what so ever.
The bigger games would still be out with the 3pm kick off, so you'd be able to watch say man Utd v plop at the pub then go see your local team (lower league - which isn't on tv anyway) or even a premier league team which 95% of people already do anyway.
Blacking out in the region if it's not a sell out also makes no sense either because if there is that many people choosing to (what you would assume) watch a bigger game they aren't going to watch it anyway!
Fans would rather watch their club play than watch a random game as well.
From my point of view the entire set up for nfl teams is a joke anyway. If fans don't turn up, you can simply jump state and go where they will turn up and rename the team for that region. So you don't have what we'd class here as hard core fans. That may be naive from me as I have absolutely no interest in it but that's what I grasp from the whole franchise bs.
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Originally Posted by Elrazor
BT are slightly different in terms of how much money they "make" off subscriptions, as their primary goal of moving into TV was to stop haemorrhaging broadband customers to Sky.
I pay £30 a month to BT, and get internet, TV and mobile, plus about as much football as I want. I think Sky and BT will struggle selling the new package for more money, as it's just too easy to get a good quality stream on the internet for the games you really want to see.
You're right but they've spent almost £2bn on right for the next couple of years. That's one hell of an amount of broadband customers.
It's good they are here though
Sky sports package cost £29.50 extra, does it not?
What's the break down of your package?