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The Soccer Thread (Version 14.5) -- We Don't Need Another Euro

Get a load of this asshole:



What I will say about the Fubo games is 1. there are only five of them, none after the second round of group matches, none of them later than the 9 a.m. ET window and none of them involving a team higher ranked than Switzerland (19), though tough shirt if you're into Ukraine or Georgia, who've got two Fubo games apiece. From a business standpoint, they're monetizing their bottom of the barrel content and probably helping their affiliates avoid conflicts that would force them to preempt their local morning news shows or mandatory E/I content.

The galling part of this is this Fox exec clearly believes that "growing the game" means monetizing it, whereas non-assholes would probably define it as making it available. His comment about games being available free over the air is bullshirt spin. If you count the license fee, there are zero games available free over the air in Britain.
 
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Get a load of this asshole:



What I will say about the Fubo games is 1. there are only five of them, none after the second round of group matches, none of them later than the 9 a.m. ET window and none of them involving a team higher ranked than Switzerland (19), though tough shirt if you're into Ukraine or Georgia, who've got two Fubo games apiece. From a business standpoint, they're monetizing their bottom of the barrel content and probably helping their affiliates avoid conflicts that would force them to preempt their local morning news shows or mandatory E/I content.

The galling part of this is this Fox exec clearly believes that "growing the game" means monetizing it, whereas non-assholes would probably define it as making it available. His comment about games being available free over the air is bullshirt spin. If you count the license fee, there are zero games available free over the air in Britain.


More than anything else, his point is moronic, like something Alexi Lalas would say. You would think, that after Fox was handed the 2026 WC on a forking platter with a no-bid contract, they would be committed to showing an entire tournament.
 
More than anything else, his point is moronic, like something Alexi Lalas would say. You would think, that after Fox was handed the 2026 WC on a forking platter with a no-bid contract, they would be committed to showing an entire tournament.

That is exactly the tweet I basically deleted to reply to him, the "Alexi, you forgot to log out of your burner" joke.
 
F*** Fox. They going to farm out World Cup games in 2026 when there are double the teams of Euro 2024?
 
Yes.

What fans want is so down the list of priorities you need to insert coins in one of those novelty telescopes at Rock City to notice it.

Money rules everything more than ever. In every sport. We lived through the golden age of access and it is done like dinner. Pay up or pish off is the new national motto.
 
Yes.

What fans want is so down the list of priorities you need to insert coins in one of those novelty telescopes at Rock City to notice it.

Money rules everything more than ever. In every sport. We lived through the golden age of access and it is done like dinner. Pay up or pish off is the new national motto.

Yeah, agree. NBC pissed off a lot of people on Thursday by switching to Peacock with the leaders on the course. I'm not buying your suck-ass streaming service.
 
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