Someone has to pay for the games being on TV. The NFL's media deals are worth well over $100 billion, and networks recoup that through advertising, with sportsbooks now among the biggest buyers. Ban the category and the money comes from somewhere: higher cable bills, more games behind extra paywalls, or thinner production. Fans already complain about blackouts and streaming fragmentation; making broadcasts more expensive to produce helps nobody. The honest trade is this: adults seeing ads for a legal product, or adults paying more to watch football. I will take the ads. The deals are staggering: the NFL finalized media rights worth $10 billion a year, $110 billion over 11 years, and that money has to come from somewhere.
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