{"id":565828,"date":"2026-04-05T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565828\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:25:13","slug":"sports-leagues-never-ending-streaming-greed-is-begging-fans-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565828\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports leagues&#8217; never-ending streaming greed is begging fans to leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I only wished that Roger Goodell, Rob Manfred and their enabling gaggle of nodding, bottom-line and foresightless team owners had been seated well within hearing distance.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I was having dinner at a restaurant bar when a senior couple from Montreal, made aware that I\u2019m a NYC-based sportswriter, told me that they\u2019re lifelong Giants and NFL fans.<\/p>\n<p>Both knew their stuff, from Carl \u201cSpider\u201d Lockhart to Karl Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>He added that his entire neighborhood of kids were and, as far he knows, remain Giants fans. Hmm. How did that happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I only wished that Roger Goodell, Rob Manfred and their enabling gaggle of nodding, bottom-line and foresightless team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[86497,56647,134065,349,35559,99,362,3015,358],"class_list":["post-565828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-equal-time","tag-gary-cohen","tag-kenny-smith","tag-nfl","tag-roger-goodell","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-media","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}