NFL's Moves Hurt Fans

December 19, 2007
Denver Post (CO)
Letter to the Editor By Ramona Martinez

To the Editor:

The NFL’s TV rules were enacted not for the benefit of fans but for the fattening of the team owners’ wallets. The NFL is already making upwards of $20 billion from its television contracts with CBS, FOX, NBC and ESPN. Now, the NFL is charging 70 cents per cable subscriber each month to watch eight games - seven of which most Broncos fans don’t care about and wouldn’t have seen anyway. And the one game we really want - which was on KWGN-2 in Denver - is blacked out in places like Durango, Colorado Springs, and elsewhere in the state so that the NFL can flex its TV muscle.

The NFL claims to have started this network in order to bring more football to fans. Ironically, the league’s outrageous demands have meant that more fans are getting less football.

Ramona Martinez,
Denver

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