Is Pay-Per-View the Future of the NFL and NCAA ?

While listening this morning to a sports talk show broadcast online from a major network, a topic was brought up. The topic was the possible (and seemingly imminent) idea for college football and the NFL to begin doing a Pay-Per-View service to watch the games. The host suggested that anyone who is a fan of the SEC would gladly pay $40+ to watch their team every weekend. He also went on to say that most fans of NFL teams around the league would be more than happy to pay upwards of about $80 per game to watch their favorite NFL team play or to watch any other game that may interest them.

These numbers are not per season for a league, conference, or even your favorite team, but per game. For some reason I feel I need to express that over and over in hopes that it will eventually make sense, but so far it still seems stupid. Examples where given for NCAAF such as paying to see USC play Ohio State, and Florida play Ole Miss and so on. At first I thought to myself that people would probably pay this amount, however I was thinking that it was per big game. So you have your regular games during the day that you can watch but then have to pay money for any big key match-up game. However the idea involves every game being paid for, not just big games. I have think that this would be a terrible idea, granted the NCAA and NFL would make money for sure people would pay, but during a recession when people are struggling to pay their bills on time I think this would be a disastrous idea and highly irresponsible of the NFL and NCAA to sanction such things.

Maybe you get together with some buddies and order the game and split the price, but even that would get expensive after a while. The host brought up that people are willing to spend around $1000 a ticket to go to some game, and that may be true, but I just cannot imagine people who can't make their bill payments laying out that kind of cash to watch one football game.

Now of course this was just an idea by the host of the talk show program, the NFL and NCAA have not said anything about doing such a thing in the future. I know that advertising revenues are probably going down, just because businesses are disappearing right and left, but if the NFL and/or NCAA ever gave this serious thought, they should attempt to find another solution first. One that would be a little more responsible in this current economic state.

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