If you give the viewer the choice to watch the games on something other than TV, then TV ratings would fall, advertisers would insist upon paying less and the price for sponsorships and TV deals could plummet, so the thinking goes.

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Leave aside for a moment exactly why oil consumption should fall: climate change, the costs of imports, relaince upon dictatorial states for supply and so on.

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