Could NFL Pay-Per-View Become the Future of Professional Football?

July 14, 2012   ·   Jeffery Roy   ·   Jump to comments

When the NFL was founded in 1920, the most popular sports in America were baseball and boxing.
Heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey was the most famous athlete in America that year, but home run champion Babe Ruth would ultimately surpass Dempsey's fame.
Baseball soon became America’s Pastime, yet the fascination with boxing held on for decades to come.
Gillette-sponsored Friday night fights were among the most watched sports shows of the 1950s.
For almost 20 years starting in the mid-1960s, ABC’s Wide World of Sports would regularly broadcast championship fights. These transmissions were provided free of charge, over the publicly-owned airwaves.
With the rise of cable TV and its subscription model in the 1980s, HBO and Showtime gradually came to dominate boxing on television.
They eventually gave rise to the pay-per-view events that are now the only venue for the sport’s biggest contests. The result: if you want to see the best, you have to...

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