I can't speak for the NFL situation because I don't care about football, but years ago I was into baseball and was following the local team. I thought about subscribing to the MLB app since I had cut the cable cord years before that. Of course then I found out, due to ridiculous blackout rules, there was no amount of money I could pay MLB to let me watch local games in realtime.
The first year I was able to use my VPN to get around the blackout but when they closed the loophole the next year, I threw my hands up and cancelled my account. I'm done giving money to companies that only use that money to find new ways to restrict and lockdown their content.
Bullshit. And seriously the Internet as a whole and especially lemmy does not need to this shit.
Perpetual motion bullshit.