Wednesday, August 26, 2009




Sports Fans Gather Around Satellite TV

Sports are undoubtedly a huge part of our culture today. Regardless of if you are a religious basketball fan, who never misses a single quarter of your favorite team's games, a die-hard hockey fanatic who has memorized every single player's name that makes up your team's internationally-filled roster, or a super-sized baseball nut who can recite your team's statistics like an encyclopedia, sports are a central part of your life. However, among the four major sports in America today, it is football that has grown to be the most popular of them all. While NASCAR may have more fans quantitatively speaking, the NFL is the largest organization and business of any other sport and has consistently grown in popularity over the past half dozen or so years. As a result, while sports are important to millions of people around globe as a whole, football has become king in America.

With an increase in ticket sales, jersey sales, and other collectible and memorabilia sales, football has become a larger than life business over the past two decades. While it was always a popular game amongst the masses, it never had the type of cult-like following that it has today. Therefore, as can be expected, television ratings of games that are broadcast both locally and nationally have risen sharply over the past twenty years. As a result, fights between different cable providers and the league have arisen: who gets the rights to air what games at what times has become a central question to anybody interested in getting strong ratings on Sunday afternoon.

Some fans are fortunate enough to get a ticket to their team's big game on Sunday. After getting in the car and making the drive out to the stadium, fans are able to enjoy their entire day out in the parking lot, eating and drinking with fellow fanatics before piling into the stadium to watch an afternoon of football live and in person. Yet, the huge majority of fans get their football fix by tuning in to watch the local broadcast of their local team's game. If you live in the same region as your favorite team plays in, you are going to be able to watch your team's game each and every Sunday afternoon.

However, there are still many fans who reside in a completely different part of the country - maybe they were born and raised in New York but currently live and work in California - and have a much tougher time tuning in and watching their team play. For these out of market fans, there is one solution: buying NFL Sunday Ticket. Available exclusively on satellite TV, this package allows you to watch every game being played every single week, no matter where you live. As a result, you can be freed from the restrictions of cable and watch your team play from the comforts of your living room without issue. As the sport continues to grow and expand, this type of television package will undoubtedly become a staple of many football fans' homes in the near future.



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