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GrumpyWasADwarf

The Musers’ Super Bowl Question

This morning an interesting question was posed: Would you pay for the Super Bowl?

For those who missed it, Junes posed the question about the Super Bowl going to pay per view, and they went through the pros and cons. Clearly, Craig thought the NFL was missing out of on some monetary gains by not going pay per view for the super bowl. (Pardons if I missed something in the nuance of the discussion, I was also distracted due to tricky DFW traffic) But the segment did end asking what we would pay for the big game.

Personally, I don’t think it’d be a good idea. I think the decision would alienate a lot of casual viewers and perhaps some die hards. I wouldn’t pay unless a team I follow was likely in it. I also think they’d lose out on some of the revenue that they bring in with all the commercials. But I could be wrong.

What do y’all think?

Posted Mar 4, 2020, 2:22 PM UTC

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dirtydeadgayjesus•

If Shakira gets naked at halftime I’m in

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j1310•

agree. This is the only way.

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P1mongoosealready impartial now•

This is the way.

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nycwarehouse•

winner

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RomanCandle81•

I basically agree with George's point: it would be a good short-term business decision but a bad long-term business decision.

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Drcoolhandluke•

George had a good point with boxing. Compared to it's prime, nobody watches anymore. The NFL would risk turning into that if they take their biggest cash cow and try to get cute.

Also, no way would I accept commercials during a ppv. I'm paying extra for this. I don't get commericals when renting a movie, so why during any ppv?

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Gopokes34•

Why was Fernando trying to say boxing is doing better than we all think? Like ya it may be have more popularity than some realize but overall it’s essentially out of the public’s eye.

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961blueliner•

Because he loves boxing. It’s like, I love hockey and most of my friends do, so in my small corner of the world it’s doing well. Then I look at the Stars ratings. Not so great. Quite honestly, I’ve paid for one boxing match in my life, won’t ever do it again.

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Drcoolhandluke•

I guess the money is still good?....

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Gopokes34•

I mean it may be ok but i can’t imagine the NFL looking at any part of boxing with jealousy

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YouAreABigJerk•

Obviously you love cable tv with its lack of commercials🤣

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gibbynads•

HELL NO. ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE GOING TO RUN COMMERCIALS.

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ShooterCooter420Don't you damn call here again•

If my team's not playing, I wouldn't pay to watch it, I would find something else to do for those 5 hours.

If my team is playing? I've got 20 bucks.

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grantismyfriend•

It’s a slippery slope. The net gain would probably increase for the NFL the first few years. The first year there is any dip in ratings, I would imagine they would try to spice it up in some sort of raunchy manner. PPV is uncensored content. If this halftime show of J-Lo and Shakira caused a stir amongst the Facebook moms of the world (and George), I can only imagine what would happen the first year they add a REAL spicy commercial or Halftime show. That would bring back in a demographic of young adults who don’t care about the game, but crave being a part of the social media main focus. The “FOMO” effect. However, that would alienate the the stable households of in Rome with Facebook mom and kids.

I would buy it for life because the NFL has had me by the nuts since I was kid. (Whoa drop)

It’s a fascinating hypothetical, I just think there would be too many factors that would be decisive among the mass public.

I’ll give the PPV super bowl 1 thumb half way up, 2 thumbs sideways and 4 thumbs down.

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dnthoughts•

Why doesn’t the NFL just come out with a NFL NOW+ PrimeFlix type app? Charge $20 p/mo to watch your local team. $40 for all NFC and $60 for all AFC. Then sell ads on the broadcasts and take all the money? The NFL was beholden to the networks because they had the FCC license. But now with everyone unplugging you’re don’t need the networks... What am I missing here?

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ivegotaflaskinmycarthe anus?•

Probably just the infrastructure and support to execute it, and they can leave that headache with the networks. But really not a bad idea.

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YouAreABigJerk•

Ppv anything receives <<< money than nfl on broadcast tv

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