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Fox News contributor and OutKick laminitis Clay Travis unleashed connected nan National Football League successful a heartfelt grounds regarding nan costs of watching games from home.
During his testimony, Travis "advocate[d] for nan reasonable fan" successful efforts to put an extremity to what he dubbed unlawful "pay-per-view."
"Every azygous day, sports fans are getting gouged now for nan opportunity of watching their favourite teams. Fans now salary acold much money each twelvemonth for thing that by rule successful 1961 you each guaranteed for them should beryllium free," Travis began.
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NFL fans locomotion extracurricular nan Super Bowl Experience astatine nan Moscone Center successful San Francisco, Calif., connected Feb. 6, 2026. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
"Most of your constituents are frustrated. They don't cognize really to find games, and they are having to salary acold excessively overmuch erstwhile they person nan opportunity to really watch those games. I don't cognize really galore of you retrieve backmost successful nan time erstwhile you tin person 1 distant power successful your hand, and you tin easy flip to immoderate different game... They conscionable want to beryllium capable to watch their favourite squad and not person to struggle to do so."
"You guys person an important work and an opportunity to use nan rule fairly, freely, and thief fans everyplace crossed nan full federation salary little and get more."
Travis past said nan NFL "quite intelligibly ... is violating nan plain intent of nan law."
Netflix and NFL signage advertises nan NFL's 2 Christmas Day marquee games streaming unrecorded connected Netflix successful New Orleans, Louisiana, connected Dec. 1, 2024. (Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images)
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"It was designed to make judge that fans get free entree to games. Anything that fans are having to salary for, extracurricular of broadcast television, arguably is extracurricular nan scope of that 1961 exemption," Travis said.
Back successful March, nan Senate Judiciary Committee asked for a revision of nan act. Congress passed nan enactment to fto leagues excavation their media authorities and waste them nationally — a move that helped make NFL games a staple of free web television. Today, those aforesaid corporate authorities deals are progressively being sliced up for streaming platforms, sparking backlash from fans disappointment by paywalls and level hopping.
If 1 were to strictly watercourse all NFL games passim nan 2025 season on Sunday Ticket, Netflix, Peacock, Amazon Prime Video, ESPN Unlimited, and NFL+, it would person costs a minimum of $575, and others (prior Sunday Ticket watchers) astir $800.
The sports leagues person cashed successful connected nan pivot to streaming, pinch nan NFL landing $1 cardinal a twelvemonth to aerial "Thursday Night Football" connected Amazon arsenic an example. The Sports Broadcasting Act exemption passed successful 1961 applies only to broadcast television.
The NFL logo is painted connected nan section astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, California, anterior to Super Bowl LX betwixt nan New England Patriots and nan Seattle Seahawks connected Feb. 8, 2026. (Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images)
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Courts person ruled successful nan past that it does not use to different media, including cable, satellite, and streaming. The Sports Broadcasting Act includes a norm allowing blackouts of section games, which still applies to out-of-market packages sold by nan leagues.
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