Has anyone else heard this about DirecTV and the NFL Ticket

It is only a matter of time before DirecTV is stripped of the Sunday Ticket by congress. Their constituites have spoken and they know a good battle to fight to look good in the voter's eyes. Congress is incensed by the fact that US tax money is paid to build the NFL's stadiums, but those same tax payers are treated differently when it comes time to view the games.

the NFL had to sign an agreement during the merger that they would promise to offer their games to as many people as possible for as reasonable a price as possible. That was one of the only reasons congress went along with the merger. Now the NFL has backed out on that promise with their DirecTV deal, and politicians like John McCain have begun to take notice. Especially incriminating is the fact that any Canadian citizen can order the sunday ticket through any digital cable service, but the American citizens who actually pay for the owners product and stadiums cannot.

Mark my words, the Sunday Ticket on DirecTV is a dead man walking, and I sincerely doubt it will last to 2010.


Edit: Also, MLB making an exclusive deal with DirecTV could not possibly have come at a worse time. As angry as voters are that they can't get football, magnify that by a nundred and you will see the kind of backlash this has engendered in the American public. Congress is even more upset about the baseball deal and now all Selig did was draw the NFL's deal back under the limelight even more than it already was.