[rjcj2017]

The easiest way to prevent people paying for individual games rather than Sunday Ticket is make Sunday Ticket the more affordable option - Sunday Ticket costs $400 for a season long pass without a Youtube TV contract - that is $22.22 a week or $300 without Youtube TV - that's $16.67.  But both plans allow you to watch every game.  For individual games, if you pay $20 a game, that is $340 a year ($40 more than the entire package with a Youtube subscription) - if you go to $25,  you're looking at $425 to watch every game of one team.

However, some teams are going to have locally available games some weeks - but even if you just watch 8 games at $20 that is $160 - make it $25 and it's $200.  Make it $30, and at 8 games for just one team you're paying $240.  With the 8 games you would reach the lowest price for the entire package at $37.50 per game.  But say there are 10 out of market games purchased - at $20 that is $200, at $25 that is $250 - 3 that is $300 (the price of the same season with the subscription - even without a subscription, that is $40

So even assuming that half of the games aren't televised locally, a $40 price per game is likely sufficient to end up paying more than the overall season (but say you can only watch a couple of games of your team that paying that cost might be worth it.

And even $20 per game is much higher than the entire package subscribers are paying - even without the contract they are only paying a few dollars per game.  And that would be nothing but profit for the NFL

Of course, I suspect that their broadcast contracts prohibit that - but given that they are already going towards having games on streaming platforms and the NFL Network they will eventually go entirely to PPV if they can get away with it.    Currently they still let the local market watch - but local means local - the Washington station will have the Commanders games, but the Richmond station won't even though the Commanders have their training camp in Richmond and it's definitely part of the local market (and they have proposed building a stadium in a site that it is usually quicker to get to from downtown Richmond than downtown D.C.)

Yep, well said.

They are leaving a ton of money on the table so obviously there's got to be a reason for it ... because the NFL gonna NFL and it loves its money.