As someone who worked at a call center that sold DirecTV packages and HEAVILY pushed the Sunday Ticket years ago, this does not surprise me in the slightest.
As a DIRECTV subscriber, yes you guys did push it and then did the you can cancel anytime!? Unless you can’t get anyone to actually cancel it and you end up renewing it. I hated you guys!
As someone else who also worked 3rd party for DirecTV, same. After DTV lost the right to have a monopoly over the NFL Sunday Ticket, and Covid, things changed. Drastically. My company lost the DTV contract Jan 2023, so I was out of a job. The 3rd party company went out of business. But the owner of the company had other companies he owned, some sharing the same building, so they went on. I moved on to other things after a very nice severance package and unemployment. Change is part of life. You adapt or die.
Sunday ticket blacked out your local games if they were doing a "black out" With that said, what a load of BS that if they didn't sell enough tickets then no one can see the game. In a tax payer funded (usually) stadium
I usually have to work sundays, so my direct ticket is the radio. When i watch a game at home, I mute the TV and turn on the radio, they do a much better job of describing plays.
I didn't even know this was happening. I remember living in Atlanta and being pissed off i couldn't watch the game because of blackout. It's such a skeevy practice I'm surprised this lawsuit didn't happen sooner.
@@castroh19you know, the person that initiates a class action lawsuit is entitled to a much bigger payout than the average person... If you do it, remember me! 😃😃😃
Oh yes! This happened to my husband when we were in Anchorage Alaska. They didn’t understand we don’t live in a town that has a stadium! And what was worse the sports bars were also blacked out
@@xefirah8753 and now we know you're full of shit: the Seahawks haven't failed to sell out a home game in roughly 20 years. That and blackouts only apply within a 75 mile radius for the NFL. Anchorage is not local to ANY NFL team.
American Sports suck. Monopolisation by the major leagues means teams are few. In Europe every town/city has a local sports team and that's who people watch and root for.
I stopped watching NFL games years ago. Their greed is remarkable. To the point of going after churches throwing Super Bowl gatherings, because the church did not pay the licensing fee to show the game on tv .
This is where all sports fans miss me. I know a lot of them, and they all wanna talk shit about what I spend my money on, because I like video games. $87 a month! To watch fuckin football??!!
They’re fools, give them bread and circuses and they’ll never revolt. I bet they can’t name anything else other than who played center for X team in 1973
At least it's american football. Here in France they will pay similar sums to watch soccer. With a premier league averaging 1 goal every other match. How exciting!
@@trmullins2The Superbowl could still be PPV...it won't because they'd probably lose more money from lost ad revenue, then gain from making it PPV. Also, PPV events typically don't have commercials, so...what's the financial benefit of doing it?
This lawsuit wouldn't even be happening if the nfl allowed the account owner sunday ticket to have the option of only following one team. The NFL forces the person who buys the account to buy all 32 teams. The sports bar that started this lawsuit even said that if they were able to only buy a package for the one team they wanted, they wouldn't have even filed the lawsuit.
@@jakesmith9089 What's wrong with that? Then you can watch any game you want. Like your team isn't playing until Sunday night, but you want to watch a game that's not on CBS or Fox in your area.
Local games are always broadcast locally. Sunday ticket is for games not televised in your area and are blacked out on sunday ticket if you live in that area.
I remember when my dad had NFL Sunday ticket. What I think was 10 years ago. I want to say he's spending about an extra $200 a month on top of his cable bill. Needless to say he could only do it for 2-3 months.
Because it's region dependent and also not consistent. You know what the ppv is and that you can only get the content if you pay for it. Now imagine you have a channel in your cable and you watch it every Sunday, now the people doing the show suddenly decide they are not making enough money so your channel gets shut down without prior notice and you can only watch your show if you have DirecTV, screw you if you use any other cable
I seriously could not care less about the NFL anymore. If this lawsuit bankrupted the organization and football disappeared forever, I wouldn't mind. Especially looking to what football itself does to the non-superstars and how the NFL is denying CTE.
The NFL seems confident of defeating this lawsuit because they didn’t settle and the judge seems friendly to their argument. However, it’s a jury trial, so it’s still a gamble.
Antitrust that's very interesting that's like the storage company businesses that are run by a management company because after years of the Mom and Pops being pressured into being run management Wise by a single company they've all started to give in and one single management company out of Irvine runs all the Mom and Pops know most people don't know that but the actual employees can actually move from one storage company to another Storage Company because they have the same management company whereas there's no competition with any of the competitive prices because there is no competition because they're all under one management company very few storage units don't go along with the this program so again the market is not competitive someone should look into that shouldn't they...?
This has been going on for years. They've been doing it with the NHL in Canada. I'm not sure if they still do because I've don't follow it like i used to. But i do remember the black out.
Blackouts in general are stupid like when I try to watch my local hockey team I live three hours away from Raleigh and my school is 4 1/2 hours from now. How am I supposed to drive every game?
NFL Sunday Ticket wasn't the only one who blacked out games. I worked for years for a call center company whose client was DirecTV. Customer would call in about blacked-out baseball games, too. I never understood why the viewing public was forced to pay for their local stadium, whether they watched the games or not when the owner(s) of the sports arenas their teams played in were very Wealthy. They could afford to subsidize their own sports arena, but noooo, they forced the local citizens who had TV subscriptions to pay for it.
That's why people should be voting out mayors that made bad deals. Some governments are listening which is why major teams have moved out of major cities.
Am I the only one that signs up for the settlements of every class action? Oh yeah I totally was doing that thing in that place with that person...and I'll never forget my injury!
In the 60's, Steelers couldn't give away tickets. Even Steelers away games were rarely on TV. After the murger of the leagues, Steelers away games started to appear on TV, but not the home games. Once away games started to appear on TV interest in the Steelers started to pick up in the late 60's.
The NFL has just gotten absurd. I love football, but I dont live in Minnesota, so watching the Vikings feels damn near impossible unless I pay a bunch of money, which I dont want to.
Owners started buying their own tuckets so games didn't get blacked out. Bigger issue is price gouging the apparently refused ESPNs offer to do Sunday Ticket cuz they were only gonna charge $70 per season instead of $250+, killing the rights deals with Fox and CBS.
Sunday ticket also let you watch out of network games but instead of paying for just one team you had to pay a boatload of money for every game from every team
Let the NFL fail people. The Board of commissioners said in 2009 that the NFL will become an 800 BILLION dollar profitable corporation before the chairman steps down. The following season, Sunday Ticket announced, 21$ beers at stadiums, parking at stadiums, food at stadiums. Minimum cost for nosebleed tickets for 200$ plus administration fees. Pushing fantasy football down everyone’s throats, now sports betting. Players now expect the obscene contracts that a bigger and more insane every year for med level talent. You literally can’t watch your local game on cable without a subscription.
Meanwhile here in Canada I pay 30$ (Canadian) so like 5$ American a month to watch the NFL and we can watch every single game, multiple ones at the same time and red-zone (they flip to games where the offence is well in the red zone). Its the only thing I enjoy living in Canada.
I don’t get it. I’m so confused. So the blackout happens when all PHYSICAL seats in a stadium don’t get sold out? Why would they do that? They would intentionally be losing out on money by shutting down the live broadcast ticket sales. Unless I’m missing something.
If they don't get enough from tickets sales they make so that the game doesn't go live on TV, you have to pay a subscription that's more expensive than most cable plans to watch the game so they make what they are expecting
If it is a local game the tab has already been paid for by taxes the residents pay. Your drivers license with current address should be all you need to get into any arena your city built with your money.
Well, as football in most sports are used to distract the population from what’s going on in the world. I am not certain how I feel about football becoming easier for everyone to watch. I suppose it’s good for people who are fans, but it certainly makes me think of circuses and food.
Ohh.. you mean they were trying to make money.. im shoked.. Lived in the bay area when Art brought the Raiders back to Oakland.. n i can only remember monday night football being the games that wernt blacked out.. I wanna say it was A.B.C. that bought out the rest of the tickets so they could air it locally..
@@andrewschliewe6392and how are we supposed to make sure that happens? If I just want to watch one team, then I guess I have to mind control everyone local to spend money at the stadium that is overpriced and built with tax payer money involved. Yeah. That’s fair.
Sorry, but you got this wrong Mike. Sellout based blackouts ended in 2014. In a local market like Atlanta every game is on broadcast TV, even streaming and cable ones. Sunday Ticket is for "out of market" games, games airing on Sunday afternoon that aren't shown locally. It is very expensive, that's correct.
I remember thinking this was really odd, like because you couldnt take the time to drive possibly 1-2 hours on the specific day you werent allowed to watch your home-team play. I get the "drive more sales" bit, but come on
Well, the lawsuit from people being hurt that’s gonna absolutely destroy them but this stuff who knows what it means when you have people who play five or six years retire and end up with injuries and conditions that shouldn’t be experienced until you’re in your 60s the league better figure it out
Kind of makes you wonder about ALL black out laws in sports. When I worked for the OTHER sat company we would laugh at the people that would call up and YELL at us to holy hell froze over because THEY could not watch their teams play. This goes for ALL BLACK OUT LAWS. 🛑🧠✌
I would say that the NFL are within their right to do this although the Green Bay Packers is an exception because Green Bay Packers is a public company and therefore the people should have access like they would a public park or public mall. I would also say that there is no collusion because the NFL is the company and the other owners each have a share of the company.
Not new to us old timers, and not surprising to us either. So glad I gave up watching sports in an earlier phase of my life. It was easier than giving up smoking, and I did that, too. Btw, did you know that the NFL is non-profit on paper? Such BS...
The fact that ESPN wanted to do cheaper deals and per team deals in the NFL shut it down lends a lot of credence that they want this to be an expensive thing even though they don't get a percentage of subscription fee they've already been paid a lump sum
Sunday Ticket was never about you being able to watch your local team. It was about being able to watch the other 15 games when your team isn't playing.
@@andrewschliewe6392 I never said anything about being able to watch your local team but as somebody who grew up on the East Coast and now lives in California I would love to only be able to watch the Patriots games. That is something ESPN proposed and the NFL shut down...
@@GARBO96 NFL owns the broadcast rights to all NFL games. They can divy those up however they want. You either pay for it you don't get to see it. It isn't the NFL's responsibility to cater to your wishes.
@@GARBO96 As i said, the NFL can split up the broadcast rights to NFL games however they want to. You as a consumer have 2 choices, either pay or don't see your games. Not the NFL's job to cater to your personal demands.
Most of it is free. But now the NFL has parntered with Amazon and you can only watch if you have an Amazon membership or is it Disney. Its one of the 2.
it sucks what they are doing, but since the NFL owns it and can make the terms for which they are selling it, can it really be something you can successfully sue for?
As someone who worked at a call center that sold DirecTV packages and HEAVILY pushed the Sunday Ticket years ago, this does not surprise me in the slightest.
As someone who worked third party for DTV; Same.
As a DIRECTV subscriber, yes you guys did push it and then did the you can cancel anytime!? Unless you can’t get anyone to actually cancel it and you end up renewing it. I hated you guys!
@@jeremychambers1949 lol Don't worry, we hated ourselves too.
My fellow brother in misery. Did that shit for two years, hated every second.
As someone else who also worked 3rd party for DirecTV, same. After DTV lost the right to have a monopoly over the NFL Sunday Ticket, and Covid, things changed. Drastically. My company lost the DTV contract Jan 2023, so I was out of a job. The 3rd party company went out of business. But the owner of the company had other companies he owned, some sharing the same building, so they went on. I moved on to other things after a very nice severance package and unemployment. Change is part of life. You adapt or die.
Please do a follow up video of the verdict after the trial!
NFL LOST!!! They gotta pay $5 BILLION in damages!! 😂
@@pedrojm13 Damn considering NFL is worth 163 billion that's really not much. I was hoping this would actually hurt them.
Sunday ticket blacked out your local games if they were doing a "black out" With that said, what a load of BS that if they didn't sell enough tickets then no one can see the game. In a tax payer funded (usually) stadium
Explain to me why people have the right to watch these games.
@@kiethmergardExplain to me why you have the right to use TH-cam without me charging you 800 dollars an hour. What a stupid question.
It kidding about the taxpayer funded. Can we go back to 1960 where corporations payed 70-80% tax and that actually led to economic growth?
@@Jared_Is_Nearbecause you have no ownership in TH-cam
@@Jared_Is_Neari dont have a right to use TH-cam without paying if Google makes their platform that way
I usually have to work sundays, so my direct ticket is the radio.
When i watch a game at home, I mute the TV and turn on the radio, they do a much better job of describing plays.
You're absolutely right! The only issue I might have is that they always sound like the team is about to score. 🥳🥳🥳
@@jerseyjoyride1316
I know, but they notice so much more about the home team. Where TV announcers try to be for both sides.
Yeah.. cause they know you cant see whats happening.. Now imagine Madden being a radio host.. omg.. its a 7 hr podcast..
I didn't even know this was happening. I remember living in Atlanta and being pissed off i couldn't watch the game because of blackout. It's such a skeevy practice I'm surprised this lawsuit didn't happen sooner.
MLB and nba do it as well. It sucks
@@castroh19well if the plaintiffs win, they won’t be doing it much longer
I think the lawsuit started in 2015
The NFL stopped blackouts years ago.
@@castroh19you know, the person that initiates a class action lawsuit is entitled to a much bigger payout than the average person...
If you do it, remember me! 😃😃😃
Oh yes! This happened to my husband when we were in Anchorage Alaska. They didn’t understand we don’t live in a town that has a stadium!
And what was worse the sports bars were also blacked out
Wait how did they play a home game if you don’t have a stadium? I don’t really get how the blackouts work
@@Marynicole830 because Anchorage Alaska is in the Seattle market. They don’t understand that we live 3000 miles away.
@@xefirah8753 and now we know you're full of shit: the Seahawks haven't failed to sell out a home game in roughly 20 years.
That and blackouts only apply within a 75 mile radius for the NFL. Anchorage is not local to ANY NFL team.
American Sports suck. Monopolisation by the major leagues means teams are few. In Europe every town/city has a local sports team and that's who people watch and root for.
I stopped watching NFL games years ago. Their greed is remarkable. To the point of going after churches throwing Super Bowl gatherings, because the church did not pay the licensing fee to show the game on tv .
*context: the game the church was showing was a local free to view game. It’s 10 people attendance removed from the NFL going after your Sunday BBQ.
I paid for that Sunday ticket years ago when they didn't say that it did not include the super bowl and I felt so robbed
Why would you need to have the Super Bowl included? when it will be broadcast on a TV broadcast network like Fox or CBS
This is where all sports fans miss me. I know a lot of them, and they all wanna talk shit about what I spend my money on, because I like video games. $87 a month! To watch fuckin football??!!
They’re fools, give them bread and circuses and they’ll never revolt. I bet they can’t name anything else other than who played center for X team in 1973
The younger people are likely just using streaming websites to watch it free.
I spend hundreds a month on video games so I can understand people spending a lot on what they enjoy too
At least it's american football. Here in France they will pay similar sums to watch soccer. With a premier league averaging 1 goal every other match. How exciting!
@@thomasfevre9515 at least you don't have to watch commercials every 5 minutes in those games😂
**pirates of the Caribbean theme starts playing**
the problem is a combination of greedy companies... nfl+live nation+ticketmaster
Livenation and Ticketmaster aren't involved in selling NFL tickets.
@@scottlemiere2024 i think you should look it up 🤷♂️
pss... its ticketmaster 😂
Glad everyone can agree piracy is ok for this
I legitimately tried to pay for a football subscription so I could watch my local team but it was subject to blackouts, so now I just pirate.
@@neilskinkle3019 And they wonder why they are losing more money to piracy each year? It's must be very hard to figure that out
Great job. Please continue making update videos on this
They're guilty imo so hope the trial proves it.
I hope so this could prevent the superbowl from being PPV
@@trmullins2The Superbowl could still be PPV...it won't because they'd probably lose more money from lost ad revenue, then gain from making it PPV. Also, PPV events typically don't have commercials, so...what's the financial benefit of doing it?
@@sycops1 what PPV events do you watch there’s commercials all over ufc
This lawsuit wouldn't even be happening if the nfl allowed the account owner sunday ticket to have the option of only following one team. The NFL forces the person who buys the account to buy all 32 teams.
The sports bar that started this lawsuit even said that if they were able to only buy a package for the one team they wanted, they wouldn't have even filed the lawsuit.
@@jakesmith9089 What's wrong with that? Then you can watch any game you want. Like your team isn't playing until Sunday night, but you want to watch a game that's not on CBS or Fox in your area.
Remember
The Romans had the Gladiator games to keep people occupied so they didn’t focus on real issues act accordingly.
You do realize you can focus on more then one thing right
FINALLY! About damn time, I’m tired of missing games from Philly even tho I live BARELY an hour away
the locality should disallow broadcasting in their stadium if the NFL won't let it on local stations.
Local games are always broadcast locally. Sunday ticket is for games not televised in your area and are blacked out on sunday ticket if you live in that area.
I remember when my dad had NFL Sunday ticket. What I think was 10 years ago. I want to say he's spending about an extra $200 a month on top of his cable bill. Needless to say he could only do it for 2-3 months.
how is this any different for instance than charging a PPV, or is this purely about people trying to watch thier local games not the product itself?
Because it's region dependent and also not consistent. You know what the ppv is and that you can only get the content if you pay for it. Now imagine you have a channel in your cable and you watch it every Sunday, now the people doing the show suddenly decide they are not making enough money so your channel gets shut down without prior notice and you can only watch your show if you have DirecTV, screw you if you use any other cable
When they blackout local games, I have often wondered how that works when local taxpayers fund the stadiums. Make it make sense.
I seriously could not care less about the NFL anymore. If this lawsuit bankrupted the organization and football disappeared forever, I wouldn't mind. Especially looking to what football itself does to the non-superstars and how the NFL is denying CTE.
The NFL seems confident of defeating this lawsuit because they didn’t settle and the judge seems friendly to their argument. However, it’s a jury trial, so it’s still a gamble.
But the judge can still overrule the jury.
Well they lost
Antitrust that's very interesting that's like the storage company businesses that are run by a management company because after years of the Mom and Pops being pressured into being run management Wise by a single company they've all started to give in and one single management company out of Irvine runs all the Mom and Pops know most people don't know that but the actual employees can actually move from one storage company to another Storage Company because they have the same management company whereas there's no competition with any of the competitive prices because there is no competition because they're all under one management company very few storage units don't go along with the this program so again the market is not competitive someone should look into that shouldn't they...?
This has been going on for years. They've been doing it with the NHL in Canada. I'm not sure if they still do because I've don't follow it like i used to. But i do remember the black out.
Blackouts in general are stupid like when I try to watch my local hockey team I live three hours away from Raleigh and my school is 4 1/2 hours from now. How am I supposed to drive every game?
When I had Sunday ticket, I understood that you were still subjuct to blackouts if your address was in the exclusion zone.
No, there was never any blackouts with Sunday Ticket.
@@andrewschliewe6392 Perhaps I imagined it then.
NFL Sunday Ticket wasn't the only one who blacked out games. I worked for years for a call center company whose client was DirecTV. Customer would call in about blacked-out baseball games, too. I never understood why the viewing public was forced to pay for their local stadium, whether they watched the games or not when the owner(s) of the sports arenas their teams played in were very Wealthy. They could afford to subsidize their own sports arena, but noooo, they forced the local citizens who had TV subscriptions to pay for it.
That's why people should be voting out mayors that made bad deals. Some governments are listening which is why major teams have moved out of major cities.
Am I the only one that signs up for the settlements of every class action? Oh yeah I totally was doing that thing in that place with that person...and I'll never forget my injury!
In the 60's, Steelers couldn't give away tickets. Even Steelers away games were rarely on TV.
After the murger of the leagues, Steelers away games started to appear on TV, but not the home games.
Once away games started to appear on TV interest in the Steelers started to pick up in the late 60's.
The NFL has just gotten absurd. I love football, but I dont live in Minnesota, so watching the Vikings feels damn near impossible unless I pay a bunch of money, which I dont want to.
Owners started buying their own tuckets so games didn't get blacked out. Bigger issue is price gouging the apparently refused ESPNs offer to do Sunday Ticket cuz they were only gonna charge $70 per season instead of $250+, killing the rights deals with Fox and CBS.
Sunday ticket also let you watch out of network games but instead of paying for just one team you had to pay a boatload of money for every game from every team
The NFL needs to be investigated on more than just that.
But Sunday Ticket blocks out local games the same as broadcast TV does. It's marketed as a way to watch your team if you don't live in the area.
Let the NFL fail people. The Board of commissioners said in 2009 that the NFL will become an 800 BILLION dollar profitable corporation before the chairman steps down. The following season, Sunday Ticket announced, 21$ beers at stadiums, parking at stadiums, food at stadiums. Minimum cost for nosebleed tickets for 200$ plus administration fees. Pushing fantasy football down everyone’s throats, now sports betting.
Players now expect the obscene contracts that a bigger and more insane every year for med level talent. You literally can’t watch your local game on cable without a subscription.
Remember, people. The only people who make money in a class action lawsuit are lawyers. 🤮
So never do them?
First the NFL, next up the MLB.
END THE BLACKOUT!!
It's also extremely easy to watch every game without Sunday ticket no matter where you live.
AYO.. It’s *Rafi the Resolute!!*
Meanwhile here in Canada I pay 30$ (Canadian) so like 5$ American a month to watch the NFL and we can watch every single game, multiple ones at the same time and red-zone (they flip to games where the offence is well in the red zone). Its the only thing I enjoy living in Canada.
I’m actually shocked it took over 25 years for this to end up in court
I don’t get it. I’m so confused. So the blackout happens when all PHYSICAL seats in a stadium don’t get sold out? Why would they do that? They would intentionally be losing out on money by shutting down the live broadcast ticket sales. Unless I’m missing something.
If they don't get enough from tickets sales they make so that the game doesn't go live on TV, you have to pay a subscription that's more expensive than most cable plans to watch the game so they make what they are expecting
It's about damn time.
This has been going on since the 70's and 80's.
Remember piracy is always an option. 😊
Tom Brady and Bill Belichick were the only things that kept me watching football. Now that they're out, I'm out.
Problem is, I’ll just not watch the games then. I got other stuff to do on my Sundays anyways
Since there is only one football league, this kind of thing is unavoidable.
There is no reality where the NFL isn't a monopoly.
This should scare the hell out of MLB
❤
Let’s hear your take on the Falcon’s draft class. Thoughts on the Penix pick?
If it is a local game the tab has already been paid for by taxes the residents pay. Your drivers license with current address should be all you need to get into any arena your city built with your money.
Its like any other streaming service. You want it you pay for it. At least that is what i think. They own the rights they can charge what they want
Now it’s included somewhat with youtube tv, seems like they learned their lesson 😂
I have a Nettwerk pack that allows me to access just about any game. I want for less than a dollar a game.
Sure hope the hell they loose. The price of game tickets to the stadiums is high too, someone should sue them for ticket fixing
Well, as football in most sports are used to distract the population from what’s going on in the world. I am not certain how I feel about football becoming easier for everyone to watch. I suppose it’s good for people who are fans, but it certainly makes me think of circuses and food.
this is why you find a site to stream for free
Ohh.. you mean they were trying to make money.. im shoked.. Lived in the bay area when Art brought the Raiders back to Oakland.. n i can only remember monday night football being the games that wernt blacked out.. I wanna say it was A.B.C. that bought out the rest of the tickets so they could air it locally..
Ah, you mean to tell me corporations don't really want the price of things to go down?
TH-cam lawyer. 😂 imma have to go with tumu, pal
If they did PPV format per game instead of a season long subscription would that be unlawful than?
NHL is becoming expensive as well.
That white and black flashing probably should have had a seizure warning
Bold of them to make things harder on their dwindling audience.
"how do you watch your local/favorite team?" Stream🏴☠️East
When will enough be enough?
And we pay the taxes for these stadiums
How can someone get in on this class action lawsuit?
Oh, boy! $5 back from the NFL!!
They don’t even give us the option to pick our favorite team and pay for just those games.
If your team always sells out at home, then there's no reason to get Sunday ticket as it doesn't apply to away games.
@@andrewschliewe6392and how are we supposed to make sure that happens? If I just want to watch one team, then I guess I have to mind control everyone local to spend money at the stadium that is overpriced and built with tax payer money involved. Yeah. That’s fair.
@@Marynicole830 You have 2 choices pay the NFL's price or don't watch. Pretty simple.
Can't wait to get my cut of 47 cents, lol.
Stuff like this is why I pirate football, just like I pirate movies. Scummy practices lead to customers going underground.
Sorry, but you got this wrong Mike. Sellout based blackouts ended in 2014. In a local market like Atlanta every game is on broadcast TV, even streaming and cable ones.
Sunday Ticket is for "out of market" games, games airing on Sunday afternoon that aren't shown locally. It is very expensive, that's correct.
Even though they haven't enforced blackouts, they still have the right to do it at any moment.
@@zerodos_02 No, their broadcasting partners and owners have it explicitly disallowed in their TV deals
@@GratefulRobin well that's a positive update. Sunday Ticket is absolutely too expensive 100% as well.
… this lawsuit was filed in 2015
I remember thinking this was really odd, like because you couldnt take the time to drive possibly 1-2 hours on the specific day you werent allowed to watch your home-team play. I get the "drive more sales" bit, but come on
Blackouts if your team doesn't sell all their tickets? As a Packers fan, i have not had this issue. Ever. :)
Well, the lawsuit from people being hurt that’s gonna absolutely destroy them but this stuff who knows what it means when you have people who play five or six years retire and end up with injuries and conditions that shouldn’t be experienced until you’re in your 60s the league better figure it out
So now there's two class action lawsuits against the NFL! How fun
Remember back when the NFL sued the USFL and Lost?! NFL was fined $1.00 !!!
USFL was put out of business. 😐
Kind of makes you wonder about ALL black out laws in sports. When I worked for the OTHER sat company we would laugh at the people that would call up and YELL at us to holy hell froze over because THEY could not watch their teams play. This goes for ALL BLACK OUT LAWS. 🛑🧠✌
I would say that the NFL are within their right to do this although the Green Bay Packers is an exception because Green Bay Packers is a public company and therefore the people should have access like they would a public park or public mall.
I would also say that there is no collusion because the NFL is the company and the other owners each have a share of the company.
Just be a fan of a good team like the Packers. Then you don't have to worry about blackouts.
Not new to us old timers, and not surprising to us either.
So glad I gave up watching sports in an earlier phase of my life. It was easier than giving up smoking, and I did that, too.
Btw, did you know that the NFL is non-profit on paper? Such BS...
ugh why does this have to be your latest video... I'm so interested in this topic yet its brand new so part 2 isnt even up yet
Yes it is
the sunday ticket cost $293 in 2022. thats not "VERY EXPENSIVE" thats 50 CENTS PER GAME. lol
It better cost them billions.
The NFL. No way. You don't say. They would never do anything like this.
The fact that ESPN wanted to do cheaper deals and per team deals in the NFL shut it down lends a lot of credence that they want this to be an expensive thing even though they don't get a percentage of subscription fee they've already been paid a lump sum
Sunday Ticket was never about you being able to watch your local team. It was about being able to watch the other 15 games when your team isn't playing.
@@andrewschliewe6392 I never said anything about being able to watch your local team but as somebody who grew up on the East Coast and now lives in California I would love to only be able to watch the Patriots games. That is something ESPN proposed and the NFL shut down...
@@andrewschliewe6392 you should really look into this lawsuit because it seems like you're on the NFL side which as a consumer doesn't make sense
@@GARBO96 NFL owns the broadcast rights to all NFL games. They can divy those up however they want. You either pay for it you don't get to see it. It isn't the NFL's responsibility to cater to your wishes.
@@GARBO96 As i said, the NFL can split up the broadcast rights to NFL games however they want to. You as a consumer have 2 choices, either pay or don't see your games. Not the NFL's job to cater to your personal demands.
Can't wait for this to get resolved so I can get my $5 compensation in the mail
This has been going on for decades. NFL really tries to not be watched and I barely have for over a decade now😂
Break the addiction. Don't warch/support professional sports.
As a Packers fan, NFL games don't sell out?
Why anyone pays for football on tv is nuts. It’s all free online all the time
Most of it is free. But now the NFL has parntered with Amazon and you can only watch if you have an Amazon membership or is it Disney. Its one of the 2.
it sucks what they are doing, but since the NFL owns it and can make the terms for which they are selling it, can it really be something you can successfully sue for?
btw. Jury said they're guilty.
Anything that sucks money out of the NFL that isn't a crime is okay by me
They want people to go watch the game and fill up the stadium, don’t see any harm with that.
Sometimes people cant afford to do that
How many teams this affect? I'm a bears fan and even when they're the worst team in the league, the games sell out.
So people have some constitutional right to watch local games? Can't afford sunday ticket? You don't get to watch. Problem solved
It’s a good thing football viewership is way down
NFL viewership was up 7% last year.