My wife subscribed to Prime and so far, in limited attempts, we got parts of one signal-garbled game that seemed to be beamed by relays from rabbit ears to a ham operator in Guatemala for final repackaging in gargantual bouncingly biased programming comes through.
But if the NFL got more money from somebody with a network of tin cans and taut strings, they'd jump to that revenue-generating option in place of Prime or any other distribution system. Ultimately, fans are no longer important patrons. They are the bottom-feeders at the tail end of a food chain that puts a product on the market to generate revenue from non-user-based sources. is not a user. Bud Light is not a user. Dominos Pizza and State Farm are not users. The gaming industry is not a user.
None of those entities are fans. We are, and we're being used.