The time for getting free sporting events with your cable television package is slowly but surely coming to an end. After the news of Gator fans having to pay $39.95 for pay per view in order to watch their team demolish Appalachian State this weekend, it’s clear that pay per view sports will be here sooner than anyone thought.
It’s really the next step in the progression of home sports watching. You use to be able to get baseball games on regular “antenna” TV, but now you need a cable package. Soon, I am sure cable companies will charge a fee to watch big games like the Super Bowl or the BCS National Championship. It only makes sense. You gonna tell me that people wouldn’t pay $40 bucks to watch the Super Bowl? I’m sure they would lose a few casual fans, but they would more than make up for it.
Personally, I think this blows. I’ve always been a proponent of watching games from my home. You may not get the same feel as you would in the stadium, but there definitely is an advantage to watching a game from your couch; instant replays, no need for binoculars, and not to mention much cheaper alcohol. But if I have to pay to sit on my couch just to watch some worthless f**king team disappoint me yet again, it won’t quite seem like i’m getting my money’s worth.
UFC and Boxing are really the only two “sports” that get away with pay per view events. It probably has more to do with the inconsistency of the events, as the typical big 3 sports usually have some type of regularity to their schedules. But most of those fans are weirdos that just love watching dudes beat the piss out of each other.
For a normal sports junkie like myself, I’m not sure I could afford to pay to watch all of my team’s games, let alone all of the other games that I watch that I could really give two s**ts about. This would really effect my existence on this planet. I’m actually getting more pissed off as I write this. I mean, who the hell is going to want to pay $40 bones to watch Florida vs. Appalachian State?!?! F**k!! Ass!!
