Revenue Sharing

[LongTimeSkinsFan]

Originally Posted by saden1

This brings up the question of what happens if the ticket prices are too high and people can't afford to go to the game? Is blacking out games legal?

What you are proposing would be called in layman's terms 'cutting off one's nose to spite one's face'. Again, I would issue the point that for the most part, the demand for the NFLs products, be they entertainment, clothing, or novelties is an elastic model by economic definitions and while there may be a core of enthusiasts for any given team willing to pay almost any price for such goods, the volume of sales needed to generate profit levels consistent with numbers we're seeing today would require that prices be kept at affordable levels. This would include re-broadcast rights and licensing revenues as well.

For example, I have never been to a game at FedEx field and all the people that I know locally that are Redskin or pro football fans go to games there about once a year. The cost of a ticket for many of us in this area is disproportionate to the value of the experience, especially since we can listen to a game on radio or watch it on TV. In the case of a blackout, radio is not affected, but even if it were, there is the internet and the newspaper the next day. At least to me and many other people, NFL product, regardless of its nature, is paid with disposable income and not essential to daily living.