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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Bullshit.
The NFL is guaranteed $1.5 billion dollars per year through 2021 with Direct TV/AT&T.
If you think that they want to give that up for a Twitter, you're dead wrong.
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At some point the NFL will need to care a lot more about their viewers and fan loyalty than the size of their contract. When diehards stop watching games not because they don't want to, but because they don't have the option of watching a game the way they want it... that's not good business.
And I didn't say the NFL needs to replace their current contract with Twitter. I am saying the use of streaming for a nationally televised game goes to show how many people would gladly stream an out-of-market game that wasn't available on network TV. The NFL would greatly benefit from their current model, but offering a paid streaming option for anyone who didn't want to commit to a dish. The fact that the NFL has no option for non-dish subscribers (apart from college) to stream is completely bonkers. And it's completely out of touch with today's world. Again, Goodell's Twitter contract seems to be acknowledgement that Goodell understands this problem.