NFL Sunday Ticket: What Are They... The Cops?

So, I was thinking about getting the ESPN Gameplan this year for college football and trying to talk my brother into getting the NFL Sunday Ticket since we had both last year with the free year of Sunday Ticket for signing up and we had watched a number of games on it. I was and still am willing to pay the $100 for the ESPN Gameplan, which I feel is well worth the price and would have probably been willing to pay the same or even a little more for the ESPN Sunday Ticket if my brother had not been willing to do so.

However, when I went to approach him about it, I asked him if he was interested in getting it this year. He gave me the "your a crazy person look" and told me that it was super expensive. I was confused and he told me that it was a few hundred dollars or over $50 a month for the package. I couldn't believe this. It was a ridiculous amount of money for not that many games and usually the lesser games to boot.

So, a couple of days later, I decided to check it out. I went on their website to find the following:

SAVE NOW WITH OUR EARLY BIRD OFFER: Get a head start on the NFL season by ordering NFL SUNDAY TICKET® with your DIRECTV® base package for just 5 payments of $53.80 — that's a savings of $30 off the retail price. Offer ends July 31.

Seriously, you are going to try to promote this as a deal? A little over $50 a month instead of an even more ridiculous $60 a month. I don't understand why they have to be so ignorant with this package. Pretty much all of their other packages I have looked into have come at a decent price. I have to believe that this was originally setup for bars and whatnot and then started being offered to regular subscribers at the same rate and they got enough people interested in order to keep it at the rate.

Needless to say, we will be watching about the same amount of NFL football this year, we just won't have the choices we had before. At this price, I cannot ever see getting the package, which is a shame for someone who was really started to get back into Pro Football last season.