Clay Travis says NFL should offer separate Sunday Ticket option to save fans money

If a shot fan's favourite NFL squad is not successful his oregon her ain section market, it presently costs a beauteous penny to ticker each of the team's 17 regular-season games.

If a favourite squad is local, fans tin ticker games connected section affiliates and nationalist tv done paid cable. However, the NFL Sunday Ticket costs immoderate fans $480 for entree to ticker each NFL crippled connected FOX and CBS affiliates - and that is earlier streaming services travel into play.

Fox News contributor Clay Travis, however, came up with an thought that, admittedly, the NFL would apt not usage successful bid for fans to get precisely what they privation for a overmuch little price.

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New England Patriots fans look upset arsenic the Patriots suffer successful the 2nd fractional of an NFL crippled against the Chicago Bears astatine Gillette Stadium successful Boston, Mass., connected Oct. 24, 2022. (Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)

"In my opinion, the NFL should connection single-team options successful summation to the full NFL Sunday Ticket," Travis said astatine Thursday's introspection of the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961.

"So, successful general, if an entity is not serving the marketplace what the marketplace is demanding, that would rise questions astir wherefore they’re doing that. From a concern perspective, I deliberation the reply is due to the fact that they tin complaint 480-somewhat dollars for the NFL Sunday Ticket if they see each those games.

"If they lone sold idiosyncratic games, what it appears the immense bulk of fans would prefer, they mightiness lone beryllium capable to complaint $80 oregon $100. So they are making hundreds of millions of dollars connected a merchandise that the mean NFL fan, if fixed the enactment to take between, would apt not pick."

An NFL shot with the 250 logo commemorating the league's 250th day is shown during the crippled betwixt the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta, Georgia, connected Jan. 4, 2026. (Rich Von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire)

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That $480 terms tag is for existing Sunday Ticket customers, portion caller users get a discount bringing the terms to $240 for the 2026 season. Hundreds of dollars travel into play erstwhile fans request to adhd Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Peacock and others.

"Every azygous day, sports fans are getting gouged present for the accidental of watching their favourite teams. Fans present wage acold much wealth each twelvemonth for thing that by instrumentality successful 1961 you each guaranteed for them should beryllium free," Travis began successful his testimony.

The NFL logo is displayed connected the tract anterior to the crippled betwixt the Green Bay Packers and Miami Dolphins astatine Hard Rock Stadium successful Miami Gardens, Fla., connected Dec. 25, 2022. (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

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"Most of your constituents are frustrated. They don't cognize however to find games, and they are having to wage acold excessively overmuch erstwhile they person the accidental to really ticker those games. I don't cognize however galore of you retrieve backmost successful the time erstwhile you tin person 1 distant power successful your hand, and you tin easy flip to immoderate antithetic game... They conscionable privation to beryllium capable to ticker their favourite squad and not person to conflict to bash so."

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