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NFL Still Trying To Gouge Fans On TV Games
February 17, 2008
The Philadelpia Inquirer (PA)
Letter to the Editor By Duriel Harris
Your recent Super Bowl coverage left out one of the weekend's biggest matchups: the NFL vs. its own fans.
While the Patriots and Giants went head-to-head on Sunday, the league offices were drawing up plans to win a multi-million-dollar sweetheart deal from state lawmakers that will allow them to take more free games away from us next season.
Despite making an eye-popping $20 billion from TV deals with NBC, CBS, ESPN and FOX, the NFL desperately wants to make another $600 million by taking eight games a year off free TV and hiding them on the league's new NFL Network, which the league wants to force on all cable and satellite customers.
In fact, right now the NFL is asking state legislatures nationwide to pass laws that would all but require exactly that.
This only hurts the fans that love our game the most. The blackout that threatened to keep Pats and Giants fans from seeing the season finale in December affected over a dozen other NFL markets in 2007 - from the Bay Area to Maine, from Texas to Wisconsin - and the league shows no signs of letting up.
Let's hope that the NFL resolves to treat fans right in 2008.
Duriel Harris
Beaumont, Texas
(Harris played 10 seasons in the NFL, 1976-85, with Miami, Cleveland and Dallas.)
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/sports/20080217_Letters___NFL_still_trying_to_gouge_fans_on_TV_games.html
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