Look what I got in my email yesterday! A message from the NFL Network reminding me of how I can watch their gluttenous marketing machine after they discontinue being distributed by Comcast. And every time I turn my TV on I am reminded by Comcast that the big bad NFL is making them take NFL Network off the air. When they could include it in Basic Cable and continue to carry it. A pack of liars both of them.
Let's get one thing clear, both Comcast and the NFL are dickheads. They are like two greedy children fighting over the same toy. Pulling it in opposite directions so hard that it comes apart at the seams and nobody can play with it. Comcast refuses to let basic subscribers watch the NFL Network and charges a premium to it's customers who must order a "Sports Package" in order to receive the NFL Network. The NFL charges Comcast to carry the NFL Network but doesn't want the customers to have to pay extra for it. The dickheads are at an impasse. And on May 1 Comcast will remove the NFL Network altogether... without reducing the charges for it's "Sports Package" too!
Roger Goddell is building a legacy of slowly killing the goose that laid the golden egg. All he is interested in is building new revenue streams with no regard for the product on the field. An 18 game season is ludicrous but it will be upon us before we know it. His rule changes (a complete new topic for another day) are unbelievably stupid. His attempted manipulation of the cable TV industry is almost as preposterous as his shit-ass network. He has practically run Steve Sabol and NFL Films out of the NFL. Everything is about the NFL Network. When the best shows on NFL Network are the NFL Films productions!
The long term goal here is to put all NFL games on the NFL Network as pay per view attractions. The only flaw in this plan is that the pussified rule changes he keeps implementing will drive the true fan away from the game. People will still watch it but the NFL will become just like the WWE.
As for Comcast, they know their days are numbered anyway and are just trying to suck every dollar out of the consumer they can before the entire cable industry as it exists today becomes defunct.
I hate Comcast because they don't care about the consumer and I hate the NFL because they don't care either. And I really hate the NFL when they put Steeler games on their stupid exclusive NFL Network Thursday night broadcasts.
If your goal is service you likely will make a profit. If your goal is profit you likely will go bankrupt. Hey NFL and Comcast, remember that GM was once sitting on top of the world and look at them now. Putting money ahead of people nets the same result every time.
To whoever at Verizon can help: Please bring Fios soon!
3 comments:
i might be biased because i have Fios and hate Comcast, but an article I read a while ago stated that Comcast really doesnt have to charge their customers to have the NFL Network. Part of the agreement the NFL laid out to them (and to other providers like Fios) is that they can run X number of 30 second local spots during thursday night games and during normal days and keep EVERY RED CENT of it thus covering the charge. dunno if it's true and i file this under i'm not looking it up since i get the games, but i feel your pain.
Ahhh...if they go belly-up, they can just get a bailout.
"As for Comcast, they know their days are numbered anyway and are just trying to suck every dollar out of the consumer they can before the entire cable industry as it exists today becomes defunct."
Dog,
How do you know my dreams? You write poetry....Fios, Fios, where art thou my Fios???????????
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