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It looks like the Thursday night football on the NFL network issue finally reached the halls of Congress. The NFL reached a negotiation stalemate with Comcast and TimeWarner Cable.
The key factor here is that none of this has to with us the football consumers.
Neither the NFL nor cable has done anything to bring me the games that I want to watch. Instead we're forced to watch the local teams, which is great if you happened to grow up here but is not cool otherwise. The NFL and Cable companies are using technology to make their business practices more complex, but not better. Don't they realize that people will pay to watch their favorite teams and there is more money to be made that way than any other solution they are thinking about? They are operating for short term money, when they realize the market that is available for fans being able to watch their favorite teams. It's neat to see monopolies fight against monopolies.
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