I can’t speak for the NFL situation because I don’t care about football, but years ago I was into baseball and was following the local team. I thought about subscribing to the MLB app since I had cut the cable cord years before that. Of course then I found out, due to ridiculous blackout rules, there was no amount of money I could pay MLB to let me watch local games in realtime.
The first year I was able to use my VPN to get around the blackout but when they closed the loophole the next year, I threw my hands up and cancelled my account. I’m done giving money to companies that only use that money to find new ways to restrict and lockdown their content.
What a technology! A speaker hooked up to the same computer that’s scanning boarding passes. What a time to be alive.