Do you love the NFL? We mean really, really love pro football, to the point where your fandom causes you to spontaneously spend hundreds of dollars on it per year - just so you can watch a lot of it on television?

(Hey cool, it’s an iPhone and the NFL and OH DAMN IT WHY WON’T HE GO AWAY)

Then, good golly, have we got good news for you! Following baseball’s lead, the NFL and DirecTV have just announced a plan to offer an iPhone application for fans to subscribe to the NFL’s Sunday Ticket service. Unlike the MLB plan, though, the NFL appears to have a giant disadvantage: it’s really not cheap.

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Next week, Tim MacMahon live blogs Casey Kasem’s “America’s Top 40″.

• Red Sox Nation declares war on DirecTV for losing the Tokyo transmission.

• But it’s a good thing the free couches didn’t arrive yet, or those would’ve followed the satellite dishes out the window.

• There’s still hope for Packers fans: Brett Favre isn’t officially retired yet.

• In his new book, Jose Canseco claims he helped turn A-Rod, Magglio Ordonez and Mike Wallace onto steroids.

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BLIMP SHOWS NFL NET GAMES OVER BLACKED-OUT BURGS: USA TODAY reports that DirecTV will show NFL Network games “on the giant video screen on its blimp as it flies above towns whose cable operators don’t carry” the channel.

The blimp will tantalize Tampa and Orlando NFL fans this week with live video overhead on Thursday and Saturday, respectively.Undeterred, NFL Network PR guy Seth Palansky said there is “zero chance” the NFL will clear the December 29 Patriots-Giants game on other broadcast outlets.

We’re just hoping no one calls in an air strike if the blimp is planning a maiden voyage over The Bean on Dec. 29.

Oh, the humanity!