I understand why they don’t want this happening — Nielsen ratings. And that’s about it. (Copyright is not the issue, as much as the NFL spokesman wants us to think it is — how much they can charge for an ad during the SB is the entire issue.)
But who the fuck cares? How hard is it to assume that the Super Bowl is going to be watched by some humongous percentage of the US public, whether they watch at home or watch at church? (Or at the bar, or at the Masonic Lodge, or wherever.) They could just as well commission a poll asking whether or not you watched the Super Bowl to set the rates for ads.
Talk about dashing Gatorade on the fans. No wonder I can’t be bothered to watch football most of the time. Fans should likewise vote with their remotes.
A LATER THOUGHT: If the NFL was smart, it would issue free one-time licenses for this kind of thing on the condition that the licensees report the number of attendees at their parties. But I guess the NFL has been the recipient of too many headbutts over the years to think about this rationally.
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)