FREE TV FOOTBALL INSTEAD OF BREAD AND CIRCUSES FOR THE AMERICAN MASSES
December 27th 2007 11:42
Australian politicians take note: the way to the hearts and minds of voters may be free football for the masses.
That’s the way US Democrat Senator Kerry saw it earlier this week.
On Saturday America plays host to a potentially historic National Football League match up between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants which will now be broadcast nationally both on CBS and NBC as well as the NFL Network.
The Patriots are poised to become the NFL's first regular-season undefeated team since the 1972 Miami Dolphins.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the game was to have been available nationally only on the NFL Network, is owned by the league. The channel isn't carried by most major cable-TV operators, although it is available on satellite-TV services. The cable industry and the NFL have been feuding over the channel's distribution, an issue that has caught the attention of some in Congress and put pressure on the league.
The Wall Street journal said, “The league has heard from several other New England politicians representing fans in areas where the game wouldn't have been widely distributed.
In a subsequent statement, Goodell said the league took the step to sanction the first triple national simulcast in league history and the first national simulcast of an NFL game since the first Super Bowl, to please fans.
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