Also was going to say the Athletic. I have two accounts, and alternate every year at this time on their "Come back!" special. Cancel one, pick up the other for $1/mo or $20 for the year, or whatever.
Their product is really, really good. I have great affection for the self-made bloggers and amateurs who dominate sports coverage now, they fill a role and have value. But holy cow having actual beat reporter sports journalism like the Athletic does is phenomenal. If you didn't grow up with newspapers, you have no idea what you are missing.
That said, YMMV. It all depends on what kind of coverage The Athletic has of your team. They have nobody on FSU, so there's next to nothing for me on that. But their coverage of the Buffalo Bills and Sabres is exceptional and worth every penny. If they dropped coverage of those teams, I would cancel.
I have generally considered Netflix a good value, but for the first time in its existence, I've started to reconsider that. There is less and less compelling content to me on there, it seems to be breaking down into more and more niches. "Here's something kind of like Stranger Things, because that's popular. Here's another silly dating show, because that's popular. Here's another half-ass true crime documentary, because that's popular." So it's either endless reiterations of things that I don't care about, or increasingly worse facsimiles of things that I did like. It just seems to have gotten increasingly and more cynically marketing-driven.
Plus, the sheer staggering amount of low and mid quality content on Netflix to sift through is daunting. Something comes up, and you don't know based on the description what you're getting into. Is it a smart, dark prestige drama? Oh, wait, I've started it and it's a third rate sub-CW teen soap. Is it a gripping, insightful feature documentary? Oh, no its a corny cobbled together "documentary" like something on Court TV. It's especially frustrating with foreign content...something is presented like an international noir drama, and you start it and it's a cheesy telenovela. I just get tired of starting stuff just to find out "Oh, this is actually bad." I mean, I'm fine with people enjoying those shows and Netflix streaming them, but its frustrating to never know what you're actually getting. Like, you don't tune into a new Sunday night drama on HBO, and get the equivalent of Blue Bloods, and you don't turn on a CBS crime procedural and it turns out to be True Detective.
Alternatively, Apple TV is kind of the opposite. I think that's worth a relatively low price point. There is somewhat of a minimum level of quality to everything on there, a certain amount of effort. I may not have any interest in it, that's fine. Might not be for me. And, truthfully, some of it turns out to kind of stink. But it doesn't purposely stink. It wasn't CREATED to stink, because its got some built in audience that will turn a profit on it at a very low budget, or because it could be acquired super cheaply, or because it kind of rips off something very popular. You know there's a baseline.
HBO is a bit like that as well, sort of between Apple TV and Netflix in terms of curation, but man, its still REALLY expensive for what you get. As far as the "HBO brand" content, the classic prestige programming, an awful, awful lot of it is in spaces that I'm not super interested in.
