That would be the NFL Channel, on which Baltimore and Cincinnati are now playing the Thursday Night game. I don’t care much about the outcome of the game, I just wanted to see whether DirecTV carried it. I missed the Kansas City Chieves (against Denver at that) on Thanksgiving night, because my brother-in-law’s cable company doesn’t carry the NFL Channel.
The NFL wants money and lots of exposure for the channel, evidently more than the CableCos are ready to fork over at the moment. Aside from being an argument for switching to satellite, it’s a classic case of the market at work. No one has a “right” to see a sporting event, and as a customer in the market, an individual can either petition the NFL and Cable, forget the whole thing, or switch to satellite.
The above all sounds great until the Washington Redskins, or some other team favored by one of our congressional representatives, is relegated to an appearance on the NFL Channel. If cable doesn’t carry it, all sorts of pressure will be brought to bear on cable, the NFL, and anyone else they can think of, to preserve some “right” that isn’t a right at all.
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did the Cowboys take their own Refs to Atlanta????