NFL Keeps Bashing Comcast, Time Warner

National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell is continuing to heap blame on Comcast and Time Warner Cable for the inability of some fans to see their home teams play when pro football games are televised by the league-owned NFL Network. "These cable operators are denying their consumers fair access to this popular NFL programming or charging them exorbitant monthly fees to view the Network," Goodell said in an Oct. 31 letter to Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA). The NFL released the letter Tuesday. When the NFL Network airs a game, it is shown on free local TV stations in the markets of the teams on the field. The rest of the country needs access to the NFL Network on a pay-TV system. But many cable operators either do not carry the network or make it an optional purchase.