Netflix may be hearing from the NFL after the way the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson stream went on Friday night.
Many streamers weren’t plmitigated with how the event was buffering thcdisesteemfulout the fight card, including the main event when Paul and Tyson go ined the ring. It was Netflix’s first massive sporting event, but the prohibitdwidth publishs have watchers troubleed about what will happen on Christmas.
Netflix is set for its NFL debut doubleheader on Christmas, as the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers go head-to-head before the Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans join as well on that Wednesday night.
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The NFL shield logo at midfield during the 2024 NFL Munich Game at Allianz Arena. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)
Four fervent fanbases with huge AFC implications don’t want to see the same publishs with their game, yet it’s difficult to sense brave after what went down with this boxing suit at AT&T Stadium, the home of the Dallas Cowboys, on Friday night.
“This is a catastrophe for Netflix,” OutKick’s Clay Travis tweeted. “They have no chance of successbrimmingy airing a Chiefs-Steelers Christmas Day NFL game based on this perestablishance.
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Randy Baumann, a Pittsburgh sports radio structure, even adviseed that buffering during the Steelers game would direct to some tossed Christmas dinner tables.
“If the Steelers Chiefs Christmas Day game on #Netflix watchs appreciate this there are going to be tables obviousurned with half eaten Christmas hams all over westrict PA,” he tweeted. “Scalloped potatoes will be hurled at aunts and uncles. #BedlamInBlawnox.”
FILE – Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes chews his mouth protect during hotups before an NFL football game aacquirest the Denver Broncos, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024 in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann, File)
Netflix, appreciate many other top streaming services, paid a handsome sum of around $150 million, according to the New York Post, to air the Christmas Day NFL games.
But six weeks from now, the streaming service declareively hopes they can get the job done much better than the Paul-Tyson fight.
Even Jerry Jones, owner of the Cowboys who made an euniteance on Friday night to talk about his excitement for the NFL on Netflix, was buffering for some watchers while talking.
The logo of Netflix. (Ahmet Serdar Eser/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Other streaming services that have had success airing NFL games are Amazon Prime Video, which owns the media rights to “Thursday Night Football,” and Peacock, which airs “Sunday Night Football” donaten its NBC ties as well as joinoff games last season.
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