After years of fans protesting the rule, the NFL is apparently finally going to drop its TV blackout policy. Last year the FCC voted to reject the NFL's strict rules that required a certain number of ticket sales for a game to be broadcast on local TV, which the league claimed it needed to keep games on free broadcast TV. Teams voted to ditch the rule today, and while the Bills-Jaguars London game in week 7 will be broadcast locally in Buffalo/Jacksonville, elsewhere it will be available exclusively over the internet. Commissioner Robert Goodell announced plans to stream one game from the 2015 season "over the top" during his state of the league press conference last month, but didn't specify which one. Now we know which game, but not where the stream will be available, although (NFL partner) Microsoft, Google/YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook and the rest are possibilities.
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Source: Wall Street Journal, Brian McCarthy (Twitter)
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