Microsoft spending 400 MILLION DOLLARS for the NFL deal!

[chapset]

J_Allard said:

chapset said:
I though you could at stats on the Internet? wtf, and don't they show stats during pauses, They better have some superbowl exclusive access or something similar to make it worthwhile.

lol @ Super Bowl exclusive access for 400 million. A 30 second Super Bowl commercial would cost a company as big as MS almost 4 million. The big networks paid almost 30 BILLION for rights to the games for 8 years. 400 million is not enough for something that great. It might seem like a lot to us, but to MS and the NFL, it's not.

As for stats and stuff, that's entirely fantasy football related. Idk if you live in the US or not, but fantasy football is monstrous. It is a multi-billion dollar industry when you take into account the money from league pools and the money players spend on fantasy football merchandise and league fees to various websites that host them. There is absolutely nothing groundbreaking about flashing stats on the screen that pertain to fantasy football. DirectTV has had this for at least a couple years. What it does it is allows you to get updates on big plays from guys on your fantasy team. So you don't have to get up and check the PC, you don't have to wait for periodic updates on big plays, you don't have to flip back and forth between the game you wanna watch and the Redzone channel.

However, the DirectTV application is slow and quite honestly, a piece of shit. My father in law has DirectTV just for Sunday Ticket and last season we were trying to set up his fantasy team and a lot of his players were not even in the system. So if this Xbone app can make it seamless and quick, they've got a sure fire hit on their hands.

Furthermore the app combined with other Xbone apps opens up many great social possibilities. I run a fantasy league and a few of the guys are not in the same state as the rest of us. I can already see us watching the slate of games during our championship week through Xbone and using Skype to all talk to one another and maybe use the NFL app as well to keep us up to date on the scores.

I can understand why a non-NFL fan wouldn't give a rats ass but it's a fantastic deal for MS and people who are NFL fans. That's not even getting into the other details of the partnership, like Surface tablets replacing all the binders and paper on sidelines. What if they integrate that into the service? See the same notes and defensive alignments Peyton or Brady does on the sidelines? Would be great.

Didn't read your post, but 400 million is a lot, they might offer something like exclusive behind the scene access to the players or maybe something madden related or early access to super bowl tickets or an app that let you watch multiple games at the same time, because really 400million for what they showed us is way overpriced