• The Wall Street Journal, Monday, July 28, 2008 10 AM

Football fans will soon be able to log on to the Internet to watch top professional games, and the sports world will be able to see how online access to games affects TV viewership.

For the first time, the NFL and NBC Sports will widely distribute complete games live on the Internet in the U.S. They plan to stream 17 regular-season games, mostly Sunday night match-ups.

It is a tentative step, covering only games that air on NBC. The plan excludes the league's playoffs and the Super Bowl, which airs on NBC next year.

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