There might be a sports fan somewhere in this great country of ours who believes that watching sports is inexpensive and hassle-free. We just never met one. Instead, most sports fans must buy TV packages they don’t want, pay inflated prices, navigate blackout policies that make no sense, or subscribe to more services than they need, just to follow the home team. Unfortunately, it could get a lot worse.

Beyond protests, tax reform, or player injuries, our biggest concern this football season has been big media mergers that stand to harm our ability to watch the games we love. We were concerned with the proposed AT&T/Time Warner merger. We're even more concerned with the havoc Sinclair/Tribune will wreak on sports fans. But now, an even bigger behemoth is taking the field, the Mouse of Media, Disney.