We canceled NFL Sunday ticket

July 29, 2008 · Posted in Saving Money · 5 Comments

One luxury that we continue to splurge on is Direct TV. Both my husband and I are huge sports fans – unfortunately for us, our favorite teams aren’t local ones. Every year, we save up and budget for both NFL Sunday ticket and NBA League Pass.

We really like NBA League Pass – there is always a game on that we’re interested in watching every night (after the kid is in bed). NFL Sunday ticket is a little bit of a different story. Basically, we can only watch 2 games each weekend, but that’s a pretty big investment of time, especially since the kid is up when the games are on.

The Cleveland Browns are actually a decent team this year, so we will be able to see more games on local tv. We sat down with their schedule last weekend, and figured out that we might miss five games total if we don’t purchase Sunday ticket. It’s possible that we may only miss three games. There’s just no way we’re paying $50+ to watch a game on television. So we canceled.

I’m really happy with the decision, and I was a little surprised that my husband was too. He’s getting annoyed with the fact that sports fans have to shell out so much money these days – we can’t even tune into Cleveland’s radio station (WMMS) anymore to listen to the games online without paying a fee.

I would like to get rid of television altogether, but we have over a year left on our Direct TV contract. I don’t really enjoy watching tv a lot (except sports), and my husband doesn’t watch a lot of tv either. I keep waiting for the SlingCatcher to come out!

If you’re a big sports fan, what do you do?