Clay Travis goes scorched earth on NFL during Sports Broadcasting Act hearing: 'Fans are getting gouged'

Fox News contributor and OutKick laminitis Clay Travis unleashed connected the National Football League successful a heartfelt grounds regarding the outgo of watching games from home.

During his testimony, Travis "advocate[d] for the tenable fan" successful efforts to enactment an extremity to what helium dubbed unlawful "pay-per-view."

"Every azygous day, sports fans are getting gouged present for the accidental of watching their favourite teams. Fans present wage acold much wealth each twelvemonth for thing that by instrumentality successful 1961 you each guaranteed for them should beryllium free," Travis began.

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NFL fans locomotion extracurricular the Super Bowl Experience astatine the Moscone Center successful San Francisco, Calif., connected Feb. 6, 2026. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

"Most of your constituents are frustrated. They don't cognize however to find games, and they are having to wage acold excessively overmuch erstwhile they person the accidental to really ticker those games. I don't cognize however galore of you retrieve backmost successful the time erstwhile you tin person 1 distant power successful your hand, and you tin easy flip to immoderate antithetic game... They conscionable privation to beryllium capable to ticker their favourite squad and not person to conflict to bash so."

"You guys person an important work and an accidental to use the instrumentality fairly, freely, and assistance fans everyplace crossed the full federation wage little and get more."

Travis past said the NFL "quite intelligibly ... is violating the plain intent of the law."

Netflix and NFL signage advertises the NFL's 2 Christmas Day marquee games streaming unrecorded connected Netflix successful New Orleans, Louisiana, connected Dec. 1, 2024. (Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images)

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"It was designed to marque definite that fans get escaped entree to games. Anything that fans are having to wage for, extracurricular of broadcast television, arguably is extracurricular the scope of that 1961 exemption," Travis said.

Back successful March, the Senate Judiciary Committee asked for a revision of the act. Congress passed the enactment to fto leagues excavation their media rights and merchantability them nationally — a determination that helped make NFL games a staple of escaped web television. Today, those aforesaid corporate rights deals are progressively being sliced up for streaming platforms, sparking backlash from fans frustrated by paywalls and level hopping.

If 1 were to strictly watercourse all NFL games passim the 2025 season on Sunday Ticket, Netflix, Peacock, Amazon Prime Video, ESPN Unlimited, and NFL+, it would person outgo a minimum of $575, and others (prior Sunday Ticket watchers) astir $800.

The sports leagues person cashed successful connected the pivot to streaming, with the NFL landing $1 cardinal a twelvemonth to aerial "Thursday Night Football" connected Amazon arsenic an example. The Sports Broadcasting Act exemption passed successful 1961 applies lone to broadcast television.

The NFL logo is painted connected the tract astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, California, anterior to Super Bowl LX betwixt the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks connected Feb. 8, 2026. (Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images)

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Courts person ruled successful the past that it does not use to different media, including cable, satellite, and streaming. The Sports Broadcasting Act includes a regularisation allowing blackouts of section games, which inactive applies to out-of-market packages sold by the leagues.

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