Watching Sports Now Requires a Spreadsheet and a Fortune
News Source : New York Magazine
News Summary
- In 1993, Fox paid $1
- 58 billion to air NFC football games for the next four years
- Thirty-one years later, Netflix showed its first-ever NFL games, two very dull blowouts
- It paid $150 million for the right to stream them exclusively
- Sports fandom has never been more expensive than it is right now
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