You seem to not have read anything I posted if that's what you think my argument is. When did I say I wanted it for free? I explicitly stated that I attempted to buy ST, but sure!Your argument boils down to, "I rally want an iPhone but I don't want to pay a monthly contract to use it for texts and calls and data."
You can watch the NFL games if you subscribed to cable. You don't subscribe, so watching is more difficult. But that is a decision you made and it sucks, but it's your decision. The networks pay the NFL a massive amount of money to show the games. In turn, the cable companies pay the networks a massive amount of money to carry their networks on their systems.
But you want it for free. Because, what, it's 2016?
They're going with the music industry playbook. Restrict access, jack up prices and ignore that there's a disconnect between how the public wants to consume their product and reality. I'm sure it will work out for them just as well; hardly any artists stream or sell digital music now.
I get it, they took the short term money from TV, but they've prevented themselves from developing future revenue streams.