Suddenly, People Have Noticed No One's Watching The NFL Network

More than a year since the channel was born, The NFL Network is still struggling. We're not sure why; maybe it's because the citizens of the largest city in the country can't get it on their local cable providers. That might have something to do with it. And now owners are beginning to wonder whether it's worth it.

At meetings schedule for tomorrow, commissioner Roger Goodell is expected to come under some fire from his "bosses" over the perceived failure of the network.

The discussion that could cause the most angst regards the league's cable network, which lost a court ruling in May that allowed Comcast to move the Network from popular programming packages to a less widely distributed tier of sports channels. In the words of one high-ranking team executive: "We're down from being in nine million homes on one network to about 750,000. Frankly, it's embarrassing." That embarrassment may lead to changes. Chief among those changes could be that the NFL Network will lose the package of Thursday and Saturday games it started broadcasting last year. The network is scheduled to show eight games this season, starting with the Atlanta Falcons playing host to the Indianapolis Colts on Thanksgiving night.

Yeah, whatever, figure it out, people. Some of us out here — you know, the people who are paying for all this — would like to buy your product, if you and the millionaires you're fighting with could just figure out a way to lend us the opportunity. Thanks.

Network Problems [Yahoo! Sports]