YouTube Sunday Ticket Pricing (Update - pricing announced)
DUDE, YOU COUKD HAVE BEEN WATCHING FREE GAMES ALL THESE YEARS. STOP THROWING YOUR MONEY AWAY WITH ALL THOSE SUBSCRIPTIONS
There are folks whose ethics only allow them to view legally purchased content. Then of course there are many of us who are more ethically fluid in regards to this.
Here in the ATL, generally more than half of the regular season Saints games show OTA each season. So, purchasing a package to watch the remaining 6 or 7 games becomes very very expensive.
The NFL continually makes the mistake of thinking that a fan of a team wants to fervently see all of the NFL and charging for services that show NFL games along those lines. But we are Saints fans. We want to see Saints games. The gravy of the other games isn't worth the hundreds of dollars that they want to charge.
If the NFL let YT offer team specific packages for about $100 a season, I would sign up. But in the end all of them overvalue a delivery product over the internet that somewhere in the country is being broadcast over the air for no additional cost.
I've tried over the years. I started with DirecTV's Sunday ticket standalone. Then DirectTV forced buying a base package to upgrade to HD. Then they wanted to try to charge me $700 for additional boxes. I bought a couple of years of NFL+ international which transmitted live games. The NFL cut it off.
Eventually I gave up. There's no venue to purchase games a-la-carte or a team only package. It takes 30 seconds to turn on a VPN, and 3 clicks to start a stream. It just doesn't make any sense to do anything else to watch games now when they are not showing in the local market.
SFIAH