Are you sick of paying for cable every month just so you can enjoy sporting events live from the comfort of your own home? Well, that won't be changing any time soon. However, Yahoo is now taking their first steps into a cable-free football future.
For years sports fans around the country have held on to seemingly outdated and overpriced "cable packages" for the sole purpose of being able to enjoy live game broadcasts. Telecom giants like Comcast, Time Warner, and DirecTV have spent billions of dollars to keep legal streaming services from being able to show football games over the internet (whether for payment or otherwise), even outbidding Google for the rights to the extraordinarily lucrative NFL Sunday Ticket package.