All you cord cutters have to sit down and do the accounting ledger work.
I have a way to deal with Verizon where it’s easy to threaten them with leaving if they try to F**k with my deal. They are willing to make deals to keep your business, especially a long time customer such as I. I have my iPhone plan, their best WiFi, and cable with just the sports upgrade that adds up to somewhere between 110 to 125$, depending on how much I use data on my iPhone off my WiFi. My Sister’s total bill as a cord cutter with 6 different streaming services besides Hulu, where she gets the “cable” live tv stuff that you can’t channel surf with, all add up close to my total bill. Throw in her WiFi provider and phone deals, her total for everything was 279$. She was sorta nonplussed about it, saying to see her favorite shows she needs to keep all of them. We are just two totally different consumers.
Streamed sports suck as a viewing choice. It glitches, out of focus, can’t follow the speed of the game, and is a classic example of the way of the future being implemented long before the technology can provide what consumers want. Even YouTube TV, the supposed best of the streaming sports services, hasn’t advanced to the point where a viewer can flip from game to game without waiting forever for the stream to load. Their streaming quality of picture for Football is only slightly better than Amazon…which is by far the worst.
Just like Amazon, Peacock, ESPN+ and all other streaming services that think they can charge anythIng for exclusive broadcasting of games…there is a flaw in their plan. Every Thursday Night Amazon game is immediately broadcast again on NFL Network. If it was a great game, I’ll watch the replay. If Michigan plays a game on Peacock, I’ll listen to the home radio broadcast and watch the replay on the Big Ten Network. It’ll be the same for the X-Mas games. I will not participate in wringing every dollar out of the fans they can. Football should be available to everyone on national tv..it’s part of our culture.
So as I type this wearing a T-shirt from the Roadkill merch that says in retro font “Gasoline Forever”, I’ll declare again that I will never give up linear cable…no serious sports fan who cares about the quality of the broadcast would.
I will have chiseled on my tombstone “He died driving one of the last Ford big block V-8s and started the revolt against streaming services in 2036 that led to the linear cable renaissance.” That may be ridiculous to some, but who is ripping you off and more misguided than the streaming service industry and this forced move to EV cars when we need billions in infrastructure for the change to be efficient, and we are acting like more than 85% of the rest of the world is dirt ass poor living on less than 5$ a day in underdeveloped nations can afford EV cars. Not to mention that 57 companies, most in China and Russia, are producing 90% of the current carbon emissions released into the changing climate. And you buying a $100,000 EV is gonna make a big change.
Back on point…this moving NFL games to exclusive streaming providers is the NFL trying to squeeze the fans for every spare quarter in their pockets. I refuse to be coerced into playing along, as so many dumbarses will.
Enough is enough.
- Argus
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