Jerry Jones Wants You to Go with the Dish

The Cowboys owners told CNBC today that he doesn’t like the big cable companies’ push to “tier” the NFL coverage. Specifically, that means cable companies won’t carry the NFL Network. Allan Kreda at Portfolio doesn’t look past the irony:

“The larger cable companies want to tier us,” Jones said today during an interview with CNBC’s Darren Rovell. “That won’t work. Our fans have to cancel the Time Warners and the Comcasts and go with competing satellite or telcom products.”
That’s easy for Jones to say. His league for years has put games out of reach of the average fan who doesn’t have satellite service. The NFL’s’ “Sunday Ticket” package of all out-of-market games is only available through the DirecTV satellite network.

Me, I’m a DirecTV fan. I like can’t live without my receiver + Tivo. But I hear tell of On Demand that makes one reconsider one’s allegiance.