[St. Loser Fan]

I am so with you on that. In fact if something is on TV that I do want to watch, I record it, and then wait 20 minutes, then start it so I can zip thru.

It also is amazing how much more annoying commercials are after not seeing them for days, weeks on end. Haha

The problem is if you're watching a game on delay in order to skip the ads, you need to stay off social media and texts.

[dieterbrock]

The problem is if you're watching a game on delay in order to skip the ads, you need to stay off social media and texts.

No doubt.
I watched the SB on about a 1 hour delay. When Atlanta was up big in the 2nd half, I thought it was over. But I could tell by the amount of texts I was receiving that something was up...

And then what I really hate is if you have a friend who knows you are watching on delay but cant help themselves from giving "hints"
Drives me nuts

[St. Loser Fan]

Behind The Athletic paywall.

[JackPMiller]

I live in an apartment where they will not allow satellites on their building, so I can only have regular cable. Ugh.

[St. Loser Fan]

I live in an apartment where they will not allow satellites on their building, so I can only have regular cable. Ugh.

If you have a deck/patio that you control exclusively AND it has a correct view of the sky you can get DirecTV. Apartment owners and HOAs cant restrict dishes and satelite dishes areas like that. Went all the way to the Supreme Court. The only exclusion is if you live in a historic district.

I used to have one of these beautiful looking setups.

[R4L]

I have been wondering when this ball was going to start rolling. I knew with pay per view for boxing and mma that it wouldn't be long until they started charging. I figured it would start with the playoffs then slowly move to the regular season. Just my 2 cents

[aeneas1]

this seems like a pretty weak lead-in given that everyone in the biz, including nielsen, has admitted for years that they did not have the ability to capture streaming or out of household numbers, i.e. so they had no idea if nfl viewership was up or down... moreover, going only by the archaic nielsen in house tv viewership ratings, all programming has been down, which of course is a reflection of alternative viewing options.

I live in an apartment where they will not allow satellites on their building, so I can only have regular cable. Ugh.

honestly, now that many streaming services (hulu, youtube, etc.) offer local tv channels, i can't think of any reason to put up with satellite or cable tv?

[St. Loser Fan]

I have been wondering when this ball was going to start rolling. I knew with pay per view for boxing and mma that it wouldn't be long until they started charging. I figured it would start with the playoffs then slowly move to the regular season. Just my 2 cents

I've been saying for a while, just wait until monsters like Apple, Google and Amazon start throwing mountains of money at the NFL.

[JackPMiller]

If you have a deck/patio that you control exclusively AND it has a correct view of the sky you can get DirecTV. Apartment owners and HOAs cant restrict dishes and satelite dishes areas like that. Went all the way to the Supreme Court. The only exclusion is if you live in a historic district.

I used to have one of these beautiful looking setups.

No deck/patio. I do live in a historic area. That sucks. I do expect one day that the NFL will eventually be off of cable TV. That if we want to see the games, especially local games, either you will have to go to them, or have to spend money to some service channel through the NFL, and we get all the games, including the local games, playoff games, including going up to the Super Bowl. That will be the eventual future.

[St. Loser Fan]

No deck/patio. I do live in a historic area. That sucks. I do expect one day that the NFL will eventually be off of cable TV. That if we want to see the games, especially local games, either you will have to go to them, or have to spend money to some service channel through the NFL, and we get all the games, including the local games, playoff games, including going up to the Super Bowl. That will be the eventual future.

I still say that this decade (the 2020s) we will see a major part of the NFL on a streaming service. Then again the NFL is mostly run by men in the 60 to 80 year old range. I doubt that even with a mountain of money, they would want to leave the familiarity of the broadcast networks.