Football is just ridiculous in general. They sell off different parts of the competitions to different services so you need to subscribe to multiple companies to watch them all. It’s just tremendous corporate greed at the expense of fans. Players are being bought for hundreds of millions - that money is all coming from increasing subscription costs and rinsing fans around the world.

Basketball is another one where there is stupidity.

I live in what my TV provider called a "dead zone".

I live in the NBA's "broadcast zone" for the Portland Trail Blazers. That means even with League Pass, I cannot watch their home games, because I am meant to watch them on my local TV provider.

But guess what, I don't live in the Seattle TV zone. So I don't have a local/any station that broadcasts Blazers game.

And the NBA doesn't care either. "Sure, you can only watch half of your team games, sucks to be you."