Comments on: NFL cracks down on out-of-town fans http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/ The part of the knee that, you know, means something. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:53:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ali Bannatyne http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-1252 Ali Bannatyne Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:14:17 +0000 http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-1252 Thanks a bunch NFL. It's not just americans who use SopCast/TVU et al. You constantly moan about wanting to grow your international fanbase yadda yadda but those of us trying to watch it abroad, and briefly at least beginning to get interested, now just think you suck. Very very well done. Idiots. Thanks a bunch NFL. It’s not just americans who use SopCast/TVU et al. You constantly moan about wanting to grow your international fanbase yadda yadda but those of us trying to watch it abroad, and briefly at least beginning to get interested, now just think you suck. Very very well done. Idiots.

]]> By: Patriots fan http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-388 Patriots fan Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:53:50 +0000 http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-388 VH, you should look into Yahoo Sports. VH, you should look into Yahoo Sports.

]]> By: VH http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-361 VH Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:46:18 +0000 http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-361 What a shame. My sole savior of boring sunday evenings is gone. Guess how many NFL games they show in Finland per year? That's right.. only the superbowl. OK, there's some available thru satellite, but getting a satellite dish just for one or two games that air in the middle of the night seems too much for my wallet.. What a shame. My sole savior of boring sunday evenings is gone. Guess how many NFL games they show in Finland per year? That’s right.. only the superbowl. OK, there’s some available thru satellite, but getting a satellite dish just for one or two games that air in the middle of the night seems too much for my wallet..

]]> By: Sports Collectibles http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-272 Sports Collectibles Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:53:45 +0000 http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-272 If anybody wants to trade teams, you can have the AZ Cardinals. :p If anybody wants to trade teams, you can have the AZ Cardinals. :p

]]> By: Thermocaster http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-66 Thermocaster Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:43:53 +0000 http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-66 It's the same crap the NFL has pulled with local TV reporters and web-based video. They don't allow local TV to shoot game footage on their own, forcing them instead to take footage from a "pool camera". And who can forget this summer when the NFL decided to arbitrarily limit online news sites and blogs to 60 seconds of video a day, which then has to be deleted 24 hours later? I think the operative word here is "hubris". It’s the same crap the NFL has pulled with local TV reporters and web-based video. They don’t allow local TV to shoot game footage on their own, forcing them instead to take footage from a “pool camera”. And who can forget this summer when the NFL decided to arbitrarily limit online news sites and blogs to 60 seconds of video a day, which then has to be deleted 24 hours later?

I think the operative word here is “hubris”.

]]> By: Matt http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-63 Matt Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:06:45 +0000 http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-63 What a farce. It's not bad enough that I have to sit through (mostly) only 2 games per afternoon in the NYC market, while throwing money to my provider Cablevision to also not show me NFL Network. Really puts my new HDTV to great use. And now I can't even follow my hometown Lions online during the other games. Instead I'm forced to pay $10 a month for spotty internet radio. The NFL needs to call up their good rich friends at MLB and ask them how they turned MLB Advanced Media into their most a billion dollar enterprise in a few years. I watched hundreds of MLB games online this season and I happily paid only about $15 a month. I'd easily pay the NFL $10 a week so I could watch a decent broadcast of the Lions game online. I'm sure their are thousands of fans just like myself who would do the same. Hey NFL -- get this going! What a farce.

It’s not bad enough that I have to sit through (mostly) only 2 games per afternoon in the NYC market, while throwing money to my provider Cablevision to also not show me NFL Network. Really puts my new HDTV to great use.

And now I can’t even follow my hometown Lions online during the other games. Instead I’m forced to pay $10 a month for spotty internet radio.

The NFL needs to call up their good rich friends at MLB and ask them how they turned MLB Advanced Media into their most a billion dollar enterprise in a few years. I watched hundreds of MLB games online this season and I happily paid only about $15 a month.

I’d easily pay the NFL $10 a week so I could watch a decent broadcast of the Lions game online. I’m sure their are thousands of fans just like myself who would do the same.

Hey NFL — get this going!

]]> By: HebewHammer http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-45 HebewHammer Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:28:32 +0000 http://www.thermocaster.com/2007/09/30/nfl-cracks-down-on-out-of-town-fans/#comment-45 If Goodell has his way you will only be able to watch the NFL under a blanket, with the lights off in your locked apartment...just as long as it is on an approved network that pays its sponsorship fee. Here is a little food for thought Rog: 500 people watching in their mom's basement isn't really costing you revenue and isn't helping you grow your fan base. Also it makes you look like a d*ck. If Goodell has his way you will only be able to watch the NFL under a blanket, with the lights off in your locked apartment…just as long as it is on an approved network that pays its sponsorship fee.

Here is a little food for thought Rog: 500 people watching in their mom’s basement isn’t really costing you revenue and isn’t helping you grow your fan base. Also it makes you look like a d*ck.

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