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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 1036852" data-attributes="member: 13032">Well you and OS make some good points, and in a straightforward way so thank you for that.  And I'm sure your wife runs a competitive business, so that can appear cutthroat, but it's no different than a worker wanting to be paid fairly.The NFL isn't a monopoly by the strict definition, but that's b-school stuff and kinda boring.  OS makes the problem clear when he says the NFL makes it difficult to watch games.It's not just the NFL though.  The streaming services compete for those games and fall over each other trying to pay the NFL more than each other for the games.  Those prices get passed to us if we'll pay them.  So there's blame to go around.The NFL business model is closer to drug dealers.  Like the NFL, they have a captive audience and an addictive product.  They have a great deal of pricing control, but it's not absolute as it isn't a true monopoly.  And to that extent, the addict is at least part of the problem.  So we can complain about the NFL, but as long as we keep buying (well, the majority of us), prices and practices will be hard to live with.</blockquote>

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