they have everyone by the balls and that is why they are such greedy scum. They suck the life out of everything and sometime in the near future they will suck it out of the nfl too.
The nfl became amazing on the backs of great players, great teams, great rivalries, great stadiums, great atmospheres, great fan bases, great broadcasters and minimal marketing and selling of the product. Now it all seems backwards. The nfl used to go away and allow the nhl, nba and mlb to breathe. The players got away and so did the fans...then the draft would come and 50% at best of the fans would watch little parts of it....then the nfl would go away again only to return to the zeitgeist in august when camps were going.
Its just 24/7 365 now. I love the nfl and always have but enough is enough. We don't need home teams sacrificing home games in europe/mexico and we definitely do not need games on every holiday. Thanksgiving and then the saturdays when college football ended was perfect.
anyway. Hopefully the xmas games are like arizona and new orleans or something... then I will definitely not watch and won't care.