| I don't see them doing much of pay per view kind of thing. All the Pay per view for sports now have some kind of build up to draw the people in. They would only be able to pull it off in the playoffs for most part.
NFL is a big business, and I'm sure it is not cheap to run an NFL team. Would I pay to watch individual games? I don't know. My favorite team, maybe if I wasn't able to see it any other way. Then again, is paying for games really that much different than paying to go to the games? There are major differences in the experience you get going to game versus the TV, but on a principle of paying to watch individual games, not much overall. And if they did, there is the whole black out situation. Does it still apply?
The only issue I'm really concerned with any business such as the NFL and paying to for their product they provide is the rising cost to the consumer. I'm afraid at some point they'll price them out of the common affordable range, especially as a family event. I'm a season ticket holder for the Raiders. I spend $1220 for two tickets, which I think the tickets are face value of $61. A family of four, that would be almost $250 for tickets, never mind food, travel, and any other expenses or spending splurge. There are cheaper tickets, as low as $35 a piece, and more expensive at $120. And the Raiders are no longer the highest ticket in the NFL; the Patriots took that title.
I was listen the NFL on Sirius, and I think the commentators are correct in their assessement of the GB-Dallas game, it was really to piss people off to get them complaining and get all the cable/satallite providers to include the NFL channel in their base packages with ESPN, ESPN2 and so forth. That will give them opportunity have high viewership and get generate more advertising revenue, promote the NFL and it's games and players. I don't see the NFL being removed for the major networks on Sunday. Too much money involved for the NFL and networks, and those games, as an overall package, still have too many viewers to not continue. | 
