So how cool are those robot graphics?

If you want to know why the SEC would consider this…

Meanwhile, Fox is preparing to throw a boatload of money at the league in an attempt to wrest the SEC’s prime football games away from CBS. The SEC has never been shy about playing two networks against each other in order to up the ante…

it’s real easy. Because it can.

Check out the historical record.

[SEC] yearly money distributions, since 1980, are as follows: 1980 ($ 4. 1 million ); 1981 ($ 5. 57 million ); 1982 ($ 7. 24 million ); 1983 ($ 9. 53 million ); 1984 ($ 18. 4 million ); 1985 ($ 9. 34 million ); 1986 ($ 13. 1 million ); 1987 ($ 13. 56 million ); 1988 ($ 14. 34 million ); 1989 ($ 13. 85 million ); 1990 ($ 16. 3 million ); 1991 ($ 20. 6 million ); 1992 ($ 27. 7 million ); 1993 ($ 34. 34 million ); 1994 ($ 34. 36 million ); 1995 ($ 40. 3 million ); 1996 ($ 45. 5 million ); 1997 ($ 58. 9 million ); 1998 ($ 61. 2 million ); 1999 ($ 68. 5 million ); 2000 ($ 73. 2 million ); 2001 ($ 78. 1 million ); 2002 ($ 95. 7 million ); 2003 ($ 101. 9 million ); 2004 ($ 108. 8 million ); 2005 ($ 110. 7 million ); 2006 ($ 116. 1 million ); 2007 ($ 122. 0 million ) and 2008 ($ 127. 2 million ).

You read that right – that sucker doubled in the last ten years. Wait’ll you see the next set of TV contracts.  And Fox or CBS, one thing is pretty likely.  We’re gonna see the games slow down with more commercial time.