The NFL may have sent fake fan letters to the FCC in 2014 to keep a sports blackout rule

I said it's additional money, on top of whatever they already earn. Learn to read.

Why in the world is this nonsense upvoted? It's not additional money, because ESPN wouldn't give them $1.9B for MNF if it were being streamed for free.

These contracts are so huge because they're conditioned on exclusivity. If the NFL gave us a legal way to stream them with ad support, the value of the exclusive TV contracts to the networks would plummet, and the NFL would make less money. This is not a complicated concept, and it's outright shameful that people are downvoting /u/thetasigma_1355 for pointing it out.

I don't like their revenue model, but it is what it is, and there's a reason for it. If you think they're idiots who are ignoring a potential revenue stream in the form of free online streaming, you don't know what you're talking about.

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