Streamed the game today.

/Wish I didn't watch it :(

Only way to watch a game here at work. (Always works on Sunday :(( )

Greedarrogance. Say it with me: won't catch on.

Terrible writer.

The ship has sailed, NFL Legal. Either figure out how to charge for it or let people keep stealing it.

greentea1985: The NFL would make a fortune if it charged a small amount, like $5 to stream a certain game on your computer. Mind you, this should be in HD 1080p. How many people stuck at work on Sunday would pay for this?

A lot. Even college games should do it. My friend works at a cell phone store, and 4 of her co-workers stream college games every week(I had to walk them through getting rid of a virus one of them picked up from it). From the sound of it they'd happily drop a few bucks on it so they didn't have to deal with that shiat.

I stream the game just so I dont have to listen to Dave Lapham on the radio.

Wish I hadnt been watching today :(

Real smart to break the law and then do an interview letting everybody know about it. Dude will be busted before the end of next week.

I still don't understand why NFL doesn't have an online streaming service like MLB. I love MLB Online and being able to watch every game every day, aside from the local ones that are on the local sports channel, anyway. I figure it's probably part of NFL's exclusivity deal with DirecTV.

Um, you can watch the NFL online without DirectTV, you just need a PS3:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20111672-1/nfl-sunday-ticket-on-p s 3-second-take/

/nowhere near as good as MLB.tv, but it's a start

Let me try that again:

Link (new window)

NeoCortex42: I still don't understand why NFL doesn't have an online streaming service like MLB.

I don't understand a lot of what the NFL does. In the Detroit area, we had the Lions game at 1pm and the Packers game at 4pm. I understand why there's no other game on during the Lions broadcast but why don't we get two 4pm games?

Or, you could buy tickets to your team's game.

Blackouts are bullshiat, but so are "fans" who don't go to their home games. Much like Jacksonville, Cincinnati deserves to lose its team.

Packers have 299 consecutive sellouts - that includes some truly shiatty seasons. If you can't be bothered to show up, give the team to a city that would appreciate it.

greentea1985: The NFL would make a fortune if it charged a small amount, like $5 to stream a certain game on your computer. Mind you, this should be in HD 1080p. How many people stuck at work on Sunday would pay for this?

Because it won't be more than what the networks pay them to not offer this.

ThisNameSux: NeoCortex42: I still don't understand why NFL doesn't have an online streaming service like MLB.

I don't understand a lot of what the NFL does. In the Detroit area, we had the Lions game at 1pm and the Packers game at 4pm. I understand why there's no other game on during the Lions broadcast but why don't we get two 4pm games?

www.the506.com

As a cowboys fan I would never in my life go to a game. Jerry Jones has priced us average people out of any possibility of watching a regular season game in person.

rufus-t-firefly: Or, you could buy tickets to your team's game.

Blackouts are bullshiat, but so are "fans" who don't go to their home games. Much like Jacksonville, Cincinnati deserves to lose its team.

Packers have 299 consecutive sellouts - that includes some truly shiatty seasons. If you can't be bothered to show up, give the team to a city that would appreciate it.

Every day I troll hard.

rufus-t-firefly: Or, you could buy tickets to your team's game.

Blackouts are bullshiat, but so are "fans" who don't go to their home games. Much like Jacksonville, Cincinnati deserves to lose its team.

Packers have 299 consecutive sellouts - that includes some truly shiatty seasons. If you can't be bothered to show up, give the team to a city that would appreciate it.

I disagree with this. If they are paying for the stadium, they have already paid more than enough into the system.

It's on the Bengals to make the live experience better than a six-dollar six-pack of cold beers, a fifty-inch HDTV, and the best seat in the house.

Nfl tv rules make no sense to me.

Denver just drove down field to tie the bears with 2 seconds left going into over time.

What is CBS showing? Green Bay practicing on the raiders 46-7

Seriously, switch games!

smerfnablin: Nfl tv rules make no sense to me.

Denver just drove down field to tie the bears with 2 seconds left going into over time.

What is CBS showing? Green Bay practicing on the raiders 46-7

FOX has the rights to Denver/Chicago. CBS can't switch.

Seriously, switch games!

smerfnablin: Nfl tv rules make no sense to me.

Denver just drove down field to tie the bears with 2 seconds left going into over time.

What is CBS showing? Green Bay practicing on the raiders 46-7

Seriously, switch games!

The Denver game was on Fox.

Shakes999: As a cowboys fan I would never in my life go to a game. Jerry Jones has priced us average people out of any possibility of watching a regular season game in person.

That's pretty much the problem every where. When it costs $100 for 1 ticket in the shiatty seats, why would you go when you will just be watching the game on TV (jumbotron) anyway. Stay home, save the money, be more comfortable and don't get raped on the price of a beer. You go once just for the experience of it. After that you stay home and save $150.

greentea1985: The NFL would make a fortune if it charged a small amount, like $5 to stream a certain game on your computer. Mind you, this should be in HD 1080p. How many people stuck at work on Sunday would pay for this?

Yes, the same people who don't want to pay the outrageous sum of $16/month to both stream and send for movies from Netflix will pay $5 per game ('cuz I guarantee you that'll be how the NFL does it) for three hours of football.

rufus-t-firefly: Packers have 299 consecutive sellouts - that includes some truly shiatty seasons. If you can't be bothered to show up, give the team to a city that would appreciate it.

I'm a Bears fan, and I've only been to 1 pro game in my life. It was at Lambeau. It was over $150 cheaper for me to drive from Indiana and have good seats at Lambeau, than to pick up crap seats in Chicago. Maybe if I lived in a small market like GB with reasonable ticket prices I could afford to go to more games.

/Bears sell out just fine without me
/I'd love to go to Soldier Field though

"And yet, only the Steelers game was sold out and seen on local TV..."
Too bad the Bungles can't have Pittsburgh play at their house eight times a season, WE DEY!
Steelers fans would never have ANY stadium not to be sold out and the game to get blacked out.

Milo1974: "And yet, only the Steelers game was sold out and seen on local TV..."
Too bad the Bungles can't have Pittsburgh play at their house eight times a season, WE DEY!
Steelers fans would never have ANY stadium not to be sold out and the game to get blacked out.

That's because everyone left pittsburgh for jobs elsewhere. The only reason the steelers and redwings travel so well is that their home towns are pits of despair and all the fans left.

/half serious

pregerstheHobo: Milo1974: "And yet, only the Steelers game was sold out and seen on local TV..."
Too bad the Bungles can't have Pittsburgh play at their house eight times a season, WE DEY!
Steelers fans would never have ANY stadium not to be sold out and the game to get blacked out.

That's because everyone left pittsburgh for jobs elsewhere. The only reason the steelers and redwings travel so well is that their home towns are pits of despair and all the fans left.

/half serious

Half serious is right. I know Steeler fans who make the trek to Cincy every year because they can't get tickets to any home Steeler games.

That said, ticket prices suck. Why wouldn't I stay at home, not pay $10 for a Budweiser, and not stand in line to piss?

Sorry, your ticket prices are too high, parking costs too much, the food/drink costs too much, the traffic is horrible, and the drive is too far to justify attending. Why watch from a seat that I can barely see what's going on, much less where the ball is at, when I can watch the game on HD from the comfort of my couch with the beer and food of my choice for a fraction of the price?

Grote-Man: Shakes999: As a cowboys fan I would never in my life go to a game. Jerry Jones has priced us average people out of any possibility of watching a regular season game in person.

He's screwed fans if the Cowboys are ever mediocre, much less terrible again. The blackout rules are something like 80 or 90% of capacity of the stadium. Jerry's World seats 100,000 people. If you get 75,000 (which would be a sell-out for every other stadium in the league), it would probably blackout the Cowboys to local fans.

The official capacity is only 80,000. They can install temp seating and sell a bunch of stading room only tickets for the big events

Can't the bar owner just get an account through that friend's address to avoid local blackouts or does Directv have some sort of way to detect where the dish/stb is actually located?

http://www.firstrowsports.tv/.

Quit farking arbitrarily blacking out markets. People move. My girlfriend is a huge bears fan but in in Lexington so they get some weird ass blackouts.

What the hell. People are already paying for DirectTV. People are paying for Cable. Show the damn game and quit playing games.

vicejay: Um... perhaps if the home team(s) would win more games, the blackout would not be an issue?

Plus charge $20 to $100 for parking, $60 for a nosebleed ticket, $9 for a beer, $8 for a burnt hotdog... Must I go on?

I've still got the ticket stub from my first NFL game: a Vikings game against the 49ers at the old Metropolitan stadium. It was my uncle's season tickets on the 40 yard line like 20 rows back and the ticket price listed is $21. These same tickets now cost $150+.

AhISeeWhatYouDidThere: Streamed the game today.

/Wish I didn't watch it :(

A common sentiment.

First, this is not news. So let's not pretend this is a new phenomenon.

Second, I used to do it to watch the best games, and so did the places I would go to watch football when I was not at home. But invariably I ended up with the feeling mentioned above by AhISeeWhatYouDidThere. Eventually it made me feel stupid...I was technically stealing something that I didn't even like. The only pleasure I was getting out of it was that I was stealing from the NFL. Not the most rational thing in the world to be doing.

FInally, as some of you know I don't watch NFL football anymore. With the great college football year we just had it was easy not to miss the NFL, but looking at the news this season I realize that if I had never been exposed to American football before and all I had to go on was what I read about pro football in the papers, I wouldn't even consider watching it, let alone attending a game. The NFL is screwed up, and relies on bodies in the seats to such an extent that it is not sustainable long term unless they capitulate and give fans a reason to go to the games, and stop punishing them for not going. The bandaid fixes that they do every couple years will not do any more than allow the league officials to hide their money well so that when it finally does collapse they can retire in glory.

Balchinian: AhISeeWhatYouDidThere: Streamed the game today.

/Wish I didn't watch it :(

A common sentiment.

First, this is not news. So let's not pretend this is a new phenomenon.

Second, I used to do it to watch the best games, and so did the places I would go to watch football when I was not at home. But invariably I ended up with the feeling mentioned above by AhISeeWhatYouDidThere. Eventually it made me feel stupid...I was technically stealing something that I didn't even like. The only pleasure I was getting out of it was that I was stealing from the NFL. Not the most rational thing in the world to be doing.

FInally, as some of you know I don't watch NFL football anymore. With the great college football year we just had it was easy not to miss the NFL, but looking at the news this season I realize that if I had never been exposed to American football before and all I had to go on was what I read about pro football in the papers, I wouldn't even consider watching it, let alone attending a game. The NFL is screwed up, and relies on bodies in the seats to such an extent that it is not sustainable long term unless they capitulate and give fans a reason to go to the games, and stop punishing them for not going. The bandaid fixes that they do every couple years will not do any more than allow the league officials to hide their money well so that when it finally does collapse they can retire in glory.

Patronick313: If the NFL wants fans to go to games, they should stop pricing the average fan out of them.

We don't want you at the game.
Signed
The 1%

rufus-t-firefly: Or, you could buy tickets to your team's game.

Blackouts are bullshiat, but so are "fans" who don't go to their home games. Much like Jacksonville, Cincinnati deserves to lose its team.

Packers have 299 consecutive sellouts - that includes some truly shiatty seasons. If you can't be bothered to show up, give the team to a city that would appreciate it.

Go through an 0-16 season and tell me it's the fans fault there were blackouts.

Free access to games?

COMMERCIALS. THE GOD DAMN FARKING COMMERCIALS PAY FOR IT ALL
KISS MY WHITE NAKED ASS

I'll do what I have to do to watch my state's team. If I still had directv I would have changed my address to somewhere close to New Orleans but not close enough to be affected by a black out.


/tired of missing Saints games because of Dallas Cowboy fans
//I do NOT live in farking Texas

Looks like a lot of Farkers root for crappy teams that can't fill their stadiums.

/Go Broncos

It's got to be the DirectTV deal. They have people clamoring for a product they refuse to sell to them.

The fact that there are 5-10 games going on at 1pm and you can only see one or two at MOST is just idiotic. The TV model for this is old and broken. Fans want to watch the game they want to watch. Most are probably willing to pay for it. Not providing a product when consumers are holding money asking for it is just bad business.

pregerstheHobo: Milo1974: "And yet, only the Steelers game was sold out and seen on local TV..."
Too bad the Bungles can't have Pittsburgh play at their house eight times a season, WE DEY!
Steelers fans would never have ANY stadium not to be sold out and the game to get blacked out.

That's because everyone left pittsburgh for jobs elsewhere. The only reason the steelers and redwings travel so well is that their home towns are pits of despair and all the fans left.

/half serious

That's pretty much correct. I remember someone saying that DC had the best football fans anywhere. My resposne was, "Yeah, I could see how you could mistake DC for being a Steelers town".

/half the DC area population between 22 and 35 is from Western PA
//the other half is from northern Ohio

Glad they were able to circumvent the rules. I would have hated for Bengal fans to miss that last Texan drive.

The bucs blacked out a game earlier in the season. I couldn't buy two tickets together under 125 dollars each. If tickets can't be had for a reasonable amount, the blackout should be lifted.