History will be made this weekend when all 32 Counties will play Championship Football over the two day period for the first time ever.

eight games in the Sam Maguire Championship and eight more in the Tailteann Cup will give fans in every corner of the country the opportunity to turn out to see their Senior stars in action.

Discussion on game time and the role of clubs has taken place over many years and one of the key elements was allowing the inter county teams have meaningful games deeper into the summer.

Training as was the case for potential one knockout game in a provincial Championship was always flawed and the new set up gives players that chance to compete in a minimum of four Championship games.

The need to finish the inter county season in time to give meaningful summer time to c;ub players, making up the vast majority of players, means that it feels like a lot of games in quick succession but that is the trade off and the intensity needs to be embraced.

There may yet be tweaks to the format with the potential lack of jeopardy from having 12 rather than eight come through this round robin stage making it feel like there is less at stake.

Kerry, having lost to Mayo already, could still lose to Cork this weekend and yet remain in the All Ireland with a single win over Louth next week.

If the Cork game was win or go home for the All Ireland Champions it would be at the same level of excitement as was generated by Cork and Limerick in last week’s Munster Hurling.

The other element likely to be given airtime this weekend is that fact that only seven of the 16 games will be televised, three on RTÉ and four on GAAGo.

‘We want everything for free’ fans in Dublin, Cork, Kerry, Kildare, Roscommon, Sligo, Meath and Down will bemoan having to pay less than the price of a single ticket for the game to watch it at home.

Fans of Galway, Westmeath, Monaghan and Clare in the Sam Maguire, and all the other teams in the Tailteann Cup would probably love the opportunity to do so but their games will not be televised at all.

If we were more mature about the changing nature of televised sport, and recognise the fact there is value in having camera crews, commentators and streams bringing us the action, it should be possible to have every minute of every game shown live.

That’s what is happening in the Ladies Gaelic Football Championship and every weekend in the SSE Airtricity Premier Men’s and Women’s and First Division League of Ireland.

Technology is being held back by noisy, often ill informed criticism of the ability to show more games than ever before.

Add in the fact that there are three Hurling matches from Croke Park being streamed, and the U20 Hurling Final being shown on TG4 and there is no shortage of games.

Sport for Business Perspective

Everything is local. The technology is there now to allow for every game to be shown, but it can’t be justified to be shown for free.

Perhaps now we are at the tipping point of coverage, with a joint venture between sport and media that has the potential to be world leading in GAAGo.

And maybe now is the time to push on through, to say ‘feck the begrudgers’, and plan to go all in with all games next season.