The cable companies are just mad because the NFL is doing to them what they've been doing to the fans for years. And I have satellite and to be perfectly honest, outside of the eight games that the NFL Network broadcasts, they don't have much in the way of original programming so people who don't have it aren't really missing out on anything.
The CableCo's are right - if we want the NFL Network, we should pay for it. Wait a second!!! Doesn't that sound like "a la caret" programming?!?!? Oh no!!!!!