Possible NFL Class Action case

[howieharden]

The NFL has decided to make its games available online, but only to people outside of North America. Those in North America, who actually pay the taxes to build their stadiums, don't even have the option of paying money to purchase the product without having Dish Network and buying NFL Sunday Ticket. Many fans, like myself, do not have satellite and want to be able to purchase the same plan made available to those who live abroad. Is it fair that the NFL can force north american customers to purcase Dish Network but they then turn around and allow fans overseas to view the same games online? Can this be legal? Someone should start a class action lawsuit, suing the nfl to make the NFL Gamepass available to North American customers at the same price international customers pay.What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?

[Zigner]

Yes, it's legal.

No, you don't have a case.

ETA: I don't see anything "unfair" about it.

[Yertle8]

How do you get people who aren't inetersted in a sport to become interested in a sport? Give it to them cheap/free.

They have no incentive to make it cheap/free here where it generates a ton of money from rabid fans.

[Alex23]

I guarantee that the internet will find a way around this. The games will look better on satellite, though.

[howieharden]

I'm not asking for it to be cheap or free. I want to be able to purchase the online product the same way that fans abroad do. The NFL refuses to sell me its online product, selling it to international fans, instead...fans who pay no taxes to build stadiums or fund security for the games they host.

But since I'm no lawyer, I was just wondering if there were any cases to demonstrate that US corporations like the NFL had to make available the very products they sell abroad and if the fact that US taxpayers partially fund the product entitled them to the right to purchase it. I guess not, but it IS in fact, very much unfair.

[racer72]

fans who pay no taxes to build stadiums or fund security for the games they host.

All NFL teams that play in municipal owned stadiums pay rent and other associated costs for each game played. Your taxpayer whine is irrelevant. The NFL is also a private entity that can sell it's product to who they want, when they want and how they want. Dish Network also pays the NFL a butt load of money to be the exclusive provider of the product, the only way they can recover this money is to sell it to the fans. If you don't want to buy the package, you don't get the product. You think it's bad now, wait till the current TV contract expires and the NFL puts all of it's games, even your local team, on either a premium cable and satellite channel like the NFL Network or each game will be pay per view. It's coming.

[Alex23]

wait till the current TV contract expires and the NFL puts all of it's games, even your local team, on either a premium cable and satellite channel like the NFL Network or each game will be pay per view. It's coming.

I can't wait.