Online Sports: First online video service (YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, etc.) to secure the exclusive
live broadcast rights to the National Football League (NFL) or National Basketball Association (NBA) for at least an entire season (including pre-season, play-offs, and the championship game) and then air the season ONLY online. To win this challenge, the games must be offered free over the Internet. Commercial breaks during the live coverage would naturally be allowed.
Future Challenges:
1) Other professional sport not secured above.
2) Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA; the international league for soccer). [As NFL/NBA will do for online TV in the USA, this future challenge will do for online TV for the rest of the world.]
3) First of the above three professional sports leagues (NFL, NBA, or FIFA) to cut out the middleman and air their games over the Internet themselves. [Broadcast and cable TV networks as well as online video services (YouTube, DailyMotion, Hulu, Netflix, etc.) are simply a middleman between these leagues and advertisers. These middlemen take their cut of the action. A cut that the leagues could pocket themselves. Eventually, one of the leagues' business managers will realize this and how airing their games online frees them from gatekeeper broadcast and cable TV networks. The league then only needs to employ its own ad salespeople and they're that much richer.]