The NFL Sunday Ticket Tango: Greed Is Good

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Published: July 2, 2009

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In these tough economic times, one would think businesses based on customers' leisure time habits would cater their products to retain their customer base.

Not so with the NFL and its long time partner DIRECTV.  The NFL Sunday Ticket is around a salty $270 bucks. To get the high definition DIRECTV, it's another $10 a month on your bill.

But the big kick in the butt is some grotesque feature called Super Fan, which must be bought for another Benjamin to be able to view NFL games in high definition.

If one doesn't fall for Super Fan, and has HD definition DIRECTV and the Sunday ticket, my understanding is that your regular satellite channels carrying NFL games will be as scrambled as Lindsay Lohan's brains after morning mojito No. 5.

Doesn't the NFL and DIRECTV make enough money from fans?

The NFL is talking tough economic times all the while pushing $10,000 personal seat licenses and $10 beers. Roger...

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