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I just paid my first $50~ bill of six installments for DirecTV's Sunday ticket. Man do I hate this bill. $300 for the year on top of DirecTV service which I only watch for football games (broadcast and cable TV really sucks. Commercials: Really?)
With Brady leaving, we have no idea what kind of football 'product' were going to get out of Cam or Stid throwing to Sanu and Harry. Then those starters all opting out. Who are our linebackers again?
And then the season might get cancelled, shortened or something. Or we'll watch games with cardboard cut out fans and fake crowd noise. Does Buffalo still sound that awful steam horn when the opposing QBs are setting up, or does that become fake too?
The execs at DirecTV have to be sweating bullets. Huge people are cord cutters or want to be, but for me, I stay on for Sunday Ticket. When is it not worth it?
This could be enough disruption for DirecTV to either fail or have to give up its monopoly license arrangement it's had for 30 years. Then we could get something new. Amazon maybe. Or maybe the license won't be owned by a single company.
Of course, the reins are only so tight, I'm guessing, because of local auto dealers and employment lawyers who advertise locally during the game. They don't want to pay to have their ads go nationally. They could figure this out, though.
This could be an unexpected benefit of Covid19. Maybe.
(mods: apologies if this is the wrong forum for this post)
With Brady leaving, we have no idea what kind of football 'product' were going to get out of Cam or Stid throwing to Sanu and Harry. Then those starters all opting out. Who are our linebackers again?
And then the season might get cancelled, shortened or something. Or we'll watch games with cardboard cut out fans and fake crowd noise. Does Buffalo still sound that awful steam horn when the opposing QBs are setting up, or does that become fake too?
The execs at DirecTV have to be sweating bullets. Huge people are cord cutters or want to be, but for me, I stay on for Sunday Ticket. When is it not worth it?
This could be enough disruption for DirecTV to either fail or have to give up its monopoly license arrangement it's had for 30 years. Then we could get something new. Amazon maybe. Or maybe the license won't be owned by a single company.
Of course, the reins are only so tight, I'm guessing, because of local auto dealers and employment lawyers who advertise locally during the game. They don't want to pay to have their ads go nationally. They could figure this out, though.
This could be an unexpected benefit of Covid19. Maybe.
(mods: apologies if this is the wrong forum for this post)