For years, the NFL convinced fans to buy the RedZone Channel with the catchphrase, “Seven hours of commercial-free football.” For fans of RedZone, those times were the good old days. And they’re not coming back.

NFL RedZone Channel is now riddled with commercials, making a mockery of the league’s previous claims that the addition of commercials on RedZone would be limited in scope.

In Week One, the spin from the NFL was that commercials would barely be noticeable — only four short commercials during the whole seven-hour RedZone broadcast. According to Sports Business Journal , by Week 13 the NFL was running 16 ads during RedZone . Half of those feature the audio of a commercial that’s being shown in one box while football can be seen in another box. The other half take over much of

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