Dumping NFL Network could be best move for Commissioner Roger Goodell
New York Daily News |
Aug. 30, 2010 11:01 a.m.
"What the NFL makes off TV now just ain't enough to satisfy your favorite PSL-loving owners," Bob Raissman writes, adding, "The league now rakes in a cool $3.1 billion from its deals with CBS, NBC, ESPN and Fox. Those contracts are up in 2014. DirectTV pays the league another $1 billion, and the league pays itself (the NFL Network) another $400 million for its eight-game, Thursday/Saturday night slate. . . . Goodell should simply fold the under-performing, distribution-challenged NFLN. Then he could take the eight-game package, seen on that network during the second half of the season, and add eight more games from the first half, which would be plucked from the current schedule. That would be an attractive schedule to sell to either a broadcast or cable network."
