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Netflix to stream NFL games on Christmas Day this year (1 Viewer)
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brewer
Footballguy
The fact that they are playing on Christmas or the fact that to see all NFL games now you need to purchase 17 different subscriptions?
The second part
Max Power
Footballguy
The different providers angle. I'm ok with Football on Christmas.
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Even if that were not totally true for me, this is a great year as Christmas falls on a Wed, to blow off the NFL on Christmas.
I hate that they eat into a major holiday to start with, add in you must subscribe to Netflix in order to watch what figures to be lousy football rushed out on 3 days rest...
Pretty soon they are going to be charging for all the Playoff games and the Super Bowl will become PPV
Max Power
Footballguy
I didn't even factor in the day of the week, but yes that only detracts from it.
I've been pushing my wife to cancel Netflix for a while now as I hardly watch it. She has some shows she likes on there, so we keep it. Now I'm more inclined to keep it. I'm just annoyed that it's another year and another service to watch games.
The Christmas part doesn't bother me as much. My kids are all teenagers. The games are great background noise for a day at home.
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It surprises me that many of the responses are negative with regards to having games on holidays. I enjoy the games on holidays as it is great back ground stuff to be going on but that could be that most everyone in my immediate family enjoy sports of all kinds so having games on is a normal activity around our house.
I think many of us are the same but can still be unhappy with the direction of game viewing is heading. Having to get 12 different streaming services to view the games is annoying. Especially when you pay a couple hundred bucks for the "Sunday Ticket" to supposedly get every game. Now they are taking games out of that package and making you pay extra money for additional services to get the "prime time" games.
The domino effect of playing on a Wednesday means the NFL has to schedule some (or all) of these teams to play the preceding Saturday. It's ridiculous.
>>So, to recap, you'll need at least 3 streaming services to watch the NFL (in addition to cable/satellite/over-the-air networks): Amazon Prime for Thursdays AND a wild card game AND Black Friday; Peacock for Eagles-Packers on opening Friday; and Netflix for Christmas (if you don't want to watch a random Lakers game on ABC)<<
brewer
Footballguy
They forgot ESPN+ Paramount+ and NFL+ but who's counting?
Max Power
Footballguy
If I purchase Sunday ticket, do I get these games?
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
And on the 8th day God created pirate streams..
Snotbubbles
Footballguy
It's the cable TV cycle of life.
You get cable TV. You get rid of cable TV for cheaper streaming options. Cable TV then negotiates with streaming services to bundle them together at a discount. You get cable TV.
Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle
The upcoming StreamSaver bundle continues a bid by the NBCUniveral parent and rivals to wring profits from their direct-to-home consumer platforms.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
brewer
Footballguy
You do not.
OrganizedChaos
Footballguy
I wish. That only gets you Sunday games not in primetime. I don't have YouTube TV (YTTV) so I think it will cost us about $450 this year for Sunday Ticket alone (would be $100 cheaper with YTTV). Packers fan so will likely spring for one month of Peacock TV for that opening Friday game. Have to see who is going to be on the Christmas games to see if will have to spring for Netflix for a month.
odin33
Footballguy
Bingo!
It's the cable TV cycle of life.
You get cable TV. You get rid of cable TV for cheaper streaming options. Cable TV then negotiates with streaming services to bundle them together at a discount. You get cable TV.
Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle
The upcoming StreamSaver bundle continues a bid by the NBCUniveral parent and rivals to wring profits from their direct-to-home consumer platforms.
Grahamburn
Footballguy
I think I'll cancel Netflix, Peacock, and Amazon just to boycott this BS.
pinkstapler
Footballguy
I "sail the seas" as the youngins call it on the interwebs lol. But I too have a wife and she isn't too great at navigating them, nor does she love that the occasional pop-up you get tends to be anime, porn, or anime porn lol. So what I started doing, with her help, is subscribing to the service needed when a new season of the show she likes come up, than when she finishes it I will cancel the sub. We normally keep one service running all the time (she tends to like Max or Peacock) so she always has one to throw on something, but for the rest we cycle subscriptions on and off. It's not too difficult to do, and through a little over a year of doing it have cut our annual subscription cost down about 70%. I know it still sucks and is a little more work, but it saves us a lot of money and figured would throw it out as a suggestion for ya. We only had Netflix for 2 months total of last year and still got to watch everything we wanted. Was able to do the same with Disney with only subbing for one month.
Of course I say this and see a future where they get rid of the monthly sub options and/or start drip feeding new episodes of her favorite shows over time rather than all at once. Hopefully she gets more comfortable with not-completely-legal streaming by then hah.
Mister CIA
Footballguy
I'll be tapping out for sure. At this point the NFL is basically telling its fan base eff-u. Jerry Jones can pay for own facelifts.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
This is pretty much where I'm at. Outside of Sunday RedZone and my home team I already ignore a lot of these games. I just follow my players on my phone.
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
$1,610 to watch all the NFL games with subscriptions to everything including cable, YouTubeTV, NFL Ticket, ESPN+ NFL+, Netflix, Amazon, etc...
-OZ-
Footballguy
I was about to say, if that was all we needed I’d be on board.
-OZ-
Footballguy
Many of us are feeling the same.
I’ll keep prime and peacock. But I guess I’ll just check the FF scores later like we used to before we could watch everything.
Wow. Tiny nitpick, don’t mind me. The internet also doesn’t provide itself for free afaik. I guess if you stream at the public library or something it could.
Max Power
Footballguy
1 - 2 early games depending on market.
The afternoon Fox game.
SNF.
The Thanksgiving lineup.
I'd say about 60 games total for the regular season.
all of them with "alternative" sources
Nick Vermeil
Footballguy
Whoa. Seems high. Can you show your work here? What do you mean by “cable?”
calcinorjones
Footballguy
Very disheartening. No wonder the commish gets booed at every draft
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
"Roger Goodell, the NFL's Commissioner, has forged a remarkable career in American sports, amassing a net worth of $200 million and an annual salary of $64 million."
That money to pay him has to come from somewhere. Quit yer bellyaching and pay your share!
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
What's high speed internet running most folks these days?
Lot of folks need cable to catch ESPN as an example....
I'm not saying you can't hack the cost down by stealing/avoiding payment here and there but if you do it above board, this was the number kicked around social media
It's outrageous, but it's not that much unless you felt the need to carry all of those things all year.
Saw someone break this down today and this is the bare minimum if you wanted to watch every game, and cancelled all the services after one month:
ESPN+: $10.99
Peacock:$5.99
Prime: $8.99
Netflix: $6.99
Sunday Ticket: $349
That puts us $381.96 but then you got factor in cable or Youtube TV.
I believe the $349 price for the Ticket is if you have Youtubetv and that you'd need to carry about 6 months which would put you at:
$437.94 for 6 months of YT TV
$381.96 for Sunday Ticket and prescriptions
This brings you to $820 if you are using Youtube TV for 6 months and remember to cancel all your subscriptions after a month. Which is all part of the "scam" of course because people forget to cancel, over 70% of people have kept Peacock for instance. As a side note how I'd love some type of federal legiislation on recurring charges.
Might be able to get it cheaper. I got my DirecTv bill down to about $35 a month last year when I threatened to leave them. I paid an extra $100 for the Sunday Ticket through Youtube instead of getting through Youtube TV but still realized signficant savings. But that price drop was only good for 12 months and I'm not sure what it's going to be now but if I could get it as same as last year I'd get this down to $660 to watch every game and have Directv for 6 months and those services for a month each.
Of course the NFL is going to say for under $400 you can watch every game, get a month of all those streaming services and not factor in the other costs.
I hate it but I did the protest last year on the Chiefs vs Dolphins playoff game and I hated it. They got me.
You'll need ESPN plus.
Grahamburn
Footballguy
Where’s the Tylenol?!
pinequick
Footballguy
Folks, this right here was the end of this thread.
karl.Racki
Footballguy
I thought it was ESPN plus plus plus
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
The staggering cost NFL fans will have to pay to watch every game
Netflix joins other streaming services showcasing regular season NFL games. However, that means the cost for fans to enjoy most - if not all - games continues to balloon.
Marketwatch set the price tag at $1600
Tau837
Footballguy
I don't have YTTV and paid the full price for Sunday Ticket last season. I am a Chargers fan living in Virginia, so wanted to do that to watch the Chargers games. IIRC 5-6 of those games were primetime games (Thu night, Sun night, Mon night). That means I paid about $40/game. As much as I want to see those games, I'm not doing that again.
I am a subscriber to Prime and Netflix and get ESPN, NFL Network, and Red Zone via DIsh. If they put a Chargers game on Peacock, I'd be much more willing to pay $5.99 for one month to watch it. But no way am I going to spend another $400+ for Sunday Ticket. I'll just watch Red Zone and watch the replay shown later on NFL Network.
It's definitely not the same, and I would pay something for those games, but not $400+. I can afford it, I'm just not willing to pay that much. I'd rather spend that $40/game in a sports bar if it comes to it.
I am a subscriber to Prime and Netflix and get ESPN, NFL Network, and Red Zone via DIsh. If they put a Chargers game on Peacock, I'd be much more willing to pay $5.99 for one month to watch it. But no way am I going to spend another $400+ for Sunday Ticket. I'll just watch Red Zone and watch the replay shown later on NFL Network.
It's definitely not the same, and I would pay something for those games, but not $400+. I can afford it, I'm just not willing to pay that much. I'd rather spend that $40/game in a sports bar if it comes to it.
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