http://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW/Commentary/Columns/2007/jackson2223.htm If you’re part of the 68 percent of the country that doesn’t receive NFL Network, it would be tempting to lash out at your cable company. Tempting, but also shortsighted.
Yeah, I heard the NFL wants cable companies to pay more for their network than they pay for CNN. More people watch CNN than the NFL network. I think the whole thing is stupid. Greed is a terrible thing.
What the NFL wants is to control its own product.Their ultimate goal is to control their own product in as many markets as they can.They would eliminate open air TV and even Direct TV ibroadcasts if they could but they do not have the structure to do so yet so there will be accomodations reached in the meanwhile. That is their ultimate goal .To broadcast all of their games to the maximum possible audience internationally under their own control. Once you understand that you will understand what they are doing.
