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Netflix to stream NFL games on Christmas Day this year (1 Viewer)

If they are going to stream with new partners, Christmas day is the best day for that is I have so much going on that I don't have to watch football that day.
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
I don't think PPV will happen, it will kill the NFL, but don't be surprised when playoff games and the SB start to get auctioned off piecemeal to the highest bidder at some point. I'm not one to really complain about having to subscribe to these different services because I already do (I have little kids), but my problem with all of this is the quality and ease of the viewing experience.

Sundays are still great. I just watch NFL Redzone. SNF and MNF are also great. I record the games on my DVR and start watching about 45 minutes into coverage so I can watch the game while forward through commercials and halftime. TNF is the worst. The announcers on Amazon are terrible. Forwarding through games is a lot more difficult without the skip forward feature of Xfinity. You also need to stay in the Amazon app. The stream is not high quality, the sound is always off. I'm even more worried about the viewing experience of Netflix after watching the Tyson/Paul fight live stream there. Brutal. It was like trying to watch a video on dial-up internet. If the NFL game stream is anywhere close to what that fight was like, the NFL will be forced to rethink this partnership. Then there's the issue of trying to figure out where to watch the games. It's beginning to become hard to keep track of. Thanksgiving/Black Friday was this way. It's only going to get worse.

And the 3 days rest issue? Yes, MAJOR problem. Players struggle to get ready for TNF, and the quality of the football suffers and more players get hurt. Games after 3 days rest? It's going to be appalling. There are some big names playing on Christmas. I'm calling it right now, there will be at least one very important player that gets injured and ruins one of these teams' playoff chances. It's ridiculous what they're forcing these guys to do. This isn't basketball or baseball or golf. They need recovery and a ramp up into games.
All the teams playing on xmas are playing on Saturday, so 4 games rest, same as Thursday games, (still not great)
Thanks for the correction. For whatever reason I thought there was only one game on Saturday. I take back my comment about an injury, but I'm not holding my breath for quality football.
 
$1,610 to watch all the NFL games with subscriptions to everything including cable, YouTubeTV, NFL Ticket, ESPN+ NFL+, Netflix, Amazon, etc...
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
I don't know if you intended this, but it is appropriate.
Ha, no, can’t take credit for being that clever. Goof that up all the time.

Also not for nothing but my breakdown was pretty close to what I ended up paying for the season. Only exceptions are that I was always going to keep Netflix and Amazon anyway and I was already going to pick up a few months of ESPN+ because my nephew plays college soccer and I needed to keep it until his team was eliminated from the NCAA tournament.
 
I've noticed that the more difficult it is to keep up with the NFL schedule, the less I care. It's not the cost, it's the aggravation. I'll intentionally not watch Wednesday football, which might lead to me skipping Thursday nights on Amazon too.

Rituals are important, and it was easy to ritualize Sundays and Monday night. Sign me up for no NFL on Wednesdays and Thursdays (except Thanksgiving, of course). kthxby
 
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If they are going to stream with new partners, Christmas day is the best day for that is I have so much going on that I don't have to watch football that day.
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
I don't think PPV will happen, it will kill the NFL, but don't be surprised when playoff games and the SB start to get auctioned off piecemeal to the highest bidder at some point. I'm not one to really complain about having to subscribe to these different services because I already do (I have little kids), but my problem with all of this is the quality and ease of the viewing experience.

Sundays are still great. I just watch NFL Redzone. SNF and MNF are also great. I record the games on my DVR and start watching about 45 minutes into coverage so I can watch the game while forward through commercials and halftime. TNF is the worst. The announcers on Amazon are terrible. Forwarding through games is a lot more difficult without the skip forward feature of Xfinity. You also need to stay in the Amazon app. The stream is not high quality, the sound is always off. I'm even more worried about the viewing experience of Netflix after watching the Tyson/Paul fight live stream there. Brutal. It was like trying to watch a video on dial-up internet. If the NFL game stream is anywhere close to what that fight was like, the NFL will be forced to rethink this partnership. Then there's the issue of trying to figure out where to watch the games. It's beginning to become hard to keep track of. Thanksgiving/Black Friday was this way. It's only going to get worse.

And the 3 days rest issue? Yes, MAJOR problem. Players struggle to get ready for TNF, and the quality of the football suffers and more players get hurt. Games after 3 days rest? It's going to be appalling. There are some big names playing on Christmas. I'm calling it right now, there will be at least one very important player that gets injured and ruins one of these teams' playoff chances. It's ridiculous what they're forcing these guys to do. This isn't basketball or baseball or golf. They need recovery and a ramp up into games.
All the teams playing on xmas are playing on Saturday, so 4 games rest, same as Thursday games, (still not great)
Those 4 teams also played on Sunday, so the Saturday game is one day less rest followed by another game with 3 days rest.

So dumb.
 
If they are going to stream with new partners, Christmas day is the best day for that is I have so much going on that I don't have to watch football that day.
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
I don't think PPV will happen, it will kill the NFL, but don't be surprised when playoff games and the SB start to get auctioned off piecemeal to the highest bidder at some point. I'm not one to really complain about having to subscribe to these different services because I already do (I have little kids), but my problem with all of this is the quality and ease of the viewing experience.

Sundays are still great. I just watch NFL Redzone. SNF and MNF are also great. I record the games on my DVR and start watching about 45 minutes into coverage so I can watch the game while forward through commercials and halftime. TNF is the worst. The announcers on Amazon are terrible. Forwarding through games is a lot more difficult without the skip forward feature of Xfinity. You also need to stay in the Amazon app. The stream is not high quality, the sound is always off. I'm even more worried about the viewing experience of Netflix after watching the Tyson/Paul fight live stream there. Brutal. It was like trying to watch a video on dial-up internet. If the NFL game stream is anywhere close to what that fight was like, the NFL will be forced to rethink this partnership. Then there's the issue of trying to figure out where to watch the games. It's beginning to become hard to keep track of. Thanksgiving/Black Friday was this way. It's only going to get worse.

And the 3 days rest issue? Yes, MAJOR problem. Players struggle to get ready for TNF, and the quality of the football suffers and more players get hurt. Games after 3 days rest? It's going to be appalling. There are some big names playing on Christmas. I'm calling it right now, there will be at least one very important player that gets injured and ruins one of these teams' playoff chances. It's ridiculous what they're forcing these guys to do. This isn't basketball or baseball or golf. They need recovery and a ramp up into games.
All the teams playing on xmas are playing on Saturday, so 4 games rest, same as Thursday games, (still not great)
Those 4 teams also played on Sunday, so the Saturday game is one day less rest followed by another game with 3 days rest.

So dumb.
So 3 NFL games in the span of 11 days? Wtf? That’s borderline criminal abuse. If these guys were boxers they would be on medical suspension.
 
If they are going to stream with new partners, Christmas day is the best day for that is I have so much going on that I don't have to watch football that day.
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
I don't think PPV will happen, it will kill the NFL, but don't be surprised when playoff games and the SB start to get auctioned off piecemeal to the highest bidder at some point. I'm not one to really complain about having to subscribe to these different services because I already do (I have little kids), but my problem with all of this is the quality and ease of the viewing experience.

Sundays are still great. I just watch NFL Redzone. SNF and MNF are also great. I record the games on my DVR and start watching about 45 minutes into coverage so I can watch the game while forward through commercials and halftime. TNF is the worst. The announcers on Amazon are terrible. Forwarding through games is a lot more difficult without the skip forward feature of Xfinity. You also need to stay in the Amazon app. The stream is not high quality, the sound is always off. I'm even more worried about the viewing experience of Netflix after watching the Tyson/Paul fight live stream there. Brutal. It was like trying to watch a video on dial-up internet. If the NFL game stream is anywhere close to what that fight was like, the NFL will be forced to rethink this partnership. Then there's the issue of trying to figure out where to watch the games. It's beginning to become hard to keep track of. Thanksgiving/Black Friday was this way. It's only going to get worse.

And the 3 days rest issue? Yes, MAJOR problem. Players struggle to get ready for TNF, and the quality of the football suffers and more players get hurt. Games after 3 days rest? It's going to be appalling. There are some big names playing on Christmas. I'm calling it right now, there will be at least one very important player that gets injured and ruins one of these teams' playoff chances. It's ridiculous what they're forcing these guys to do. This isn't basketball or baseball or golf. They need recovery and a ramp up into games.
All the teams playing on xmas are playing on Saturday, so 4 games rest, same as Thursday games, (still not great)
Those 4 teams also played on Sunday, so the Saturday game is one day less rest followed by another game with 3 days rest.

So dumb.
So 3 NFL games in the span of 11 days? Wtf? That’s borderline criminal abuse. If these guys were boxers they would be on medical suspension.
Dallas did it earlier this year with the 3rd game being Thanksgiving. It’s not the first time for them either
 
If they are going to stream with new partners, Christmas day is the best day for that is I have so much going on that I don't have to watch football that day.
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
I don't think PPV will happen, it will kill the NFL, but don't be surprised when playoff games and the SB start to get auctioned off piecemeal to the highest bidder at some point. I'm not one to really complain about having to subscribe to these different services because I already do (I have little kids), but my problem with all of this is the quality and ease of the viewing experience.

Sundays are still great. I just watch NFL Redzone. SNF and MNF are also great. I record the games on my DVR and start watching about 45 minutes into coverage so I can watch the game while forward through commercials and halftime. TNF is the worst. The announcers on Amazon are terrible. Forwarding through games is a lot more difficult without the skip forward feature of Xfinity. You also need to stay in the Amazon app. The stream is not high quality, the sound is always off. I'm even more worried about the viewing experience of Netflix after watching the Tyson/Paul fight live stream there. Brutal. It was like trying to watch a video on dial-up internet. If the NFL game stream is anywhere close to what that fight was like, the NFL will be forced to rethink this partnership. Then there's the issue of trying to figure out where to watch the games. It's beginning to become hard to keep track of. Thanksgiving/Black Friday was this way. It's only going to get worse.

And the 3 days rest issue? Yes, MAJOR problem. Players struggle to get ready for TNF, and the quality of the football suffers and more players get hurt. Games after 3 days rest? It's going to be appalling. There are some big names playing on Christmas. I'm calling it right now, there will be at least one very important player that gets injured and ruins one of these teams' playoff chances. It's ridiculous what they're forcing these guys to do. This isn't basketball or baseball or golf. They need recovery and a ramp up into games.
All the teams playing on xmas are playing on Saturday, so 4 games rest, same as Thursday games, (still not great)
Those 4 teams also played on Sunday, so the Saturday game is one day less rest followed by another game with 3 days rest.

So dumb.
So 3 NFL games in the span of 11 days? Wtf? That’s borderline criminal abuse. If these guys were boxers they would be on medical suspension.
Dallas did it earlier this year with the 3rd game being Thanksgiving. It’s not the first time for them either

Yeah, but they get plenty of vitamin D this time of year so it should be alright
 
NFL is a for profit business last time I checked. No one is forcing anyone to pay to watch their games. Paying 6 bucks to watch a playoff game on Peacock was worth it. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
You people waste more money on coffee or the snack du jour at Costco than you ever will watching the NFL. Life is too short to squabble over paying to watch sports. We’ve been doing it in some fashion through cable tv fees for the last 40 years. The money has just shifted at this point.
EXACTLY. I don't get it. It's entertainment and in the overwhelmingly vast majority of situations, you have to pay for professional entertainment.

Nobody deserves free NFL games. We're lucky we get what we get for "free".

I read about this 5-6 years ago. The NFL a little bit at a time was working in PPV.

We have been slowly "conditioned" to pay for football. I have Xfinity with movie channels..but wait I had to pay extra for the NFL Network and Peacock to watch the games. Not counting Amazon Prime and Netflix now.
 
I have a question about the Christmas games. If you live in one of the NFL Team Markets such as Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, or Houston can you still watch your in market game on your regular local channel or is it still only going to be broadcast on Netflix?
 
I have a question about the Christmas games. If you live in one of the NFL Team Markets such as Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, or Houston can you still watch your in market game on your regular local channel or is it still only going to be broadcast on Netflix?
I'm fairly certain they need to show it on over the air TV. I know that's the case when Jets/Giants games are on Prime.
 
I have a question about the Christmas games. If you live in one of the NFL Team Markets such as Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, or Houston can you still watch your in market game on your regular local channel or is it still only going to be broadcast on Netflix?

Yes, I believe someone posted it back on page 2 of this thread
 
CBS(or Paramount Plus)- Sundays/Thanksgiving/Playoffs
Fox- Sundays/Thanksgiving/Playoffs/Super Bowl
NBC- Sunday Nights/Thursday opening game/Thanksgiving/Playoffs
ESPN- Monday Nights/Playoffs
ABC- Monday Night weeks 3,4 and 15
ESPN Plus- Monday Night week 7
Peacock- Week 1 Eagles/Packers
Prime Video- Thursday Nights/Black Friday/Wild Card Playoff game
Netflix- Christmas Day- 2 games
NFL Network- England and Germany games weeks 5,6,7 and 10 and Saturday week 17-3 games
I have Prime and Netflix--if they had no NFL I would have then anyway.
YouTube TV covers NFLN, CBS, NBC, ESPN, FOX

Peacock and ESPN Plus are 1 game each. :shrug:

I have Peacock for EPL soccer, and I get the Disney/Hulu/ESPN+ free thru AMEX, so it appears that I don't need to add anything, but I know most people don't have those. It's two games. I don't see a big problem here.

What AMEX card do you have? How do you get those channels free? I need to look into it.

Not sure if you were answered but the Platinum has a up to $20 a month streaming credit currently. Hulu, D+ and ESPN+ are one of the few services that qualify for that credit.
 

Cowboys' Jerry Jones wants NFL to continue playing on Christmas no matter the day: 'We're going to be there'​


The NFL doesn't care what day Christmas is on; it will ensure its schedule lines up for there to be games​

 
My guess is if it fell on a Tuesday I think they would extend that week so Tuesday is the last day of the week maybe ?

I can't see starting a new week on Tuesday but then again I couldn't see starting a week on a Wednesday.

The last few years the Christmas games fell on Week 16 schedule which was better but since the calendar flipped the schedule it pushed Christmas back to week 17 this year.

Looking ahead to next year it falls on a Thursday so they will probably add more games and have 3 games on that Thursday but at least it be on a Thursday what we are all used to.
 
Yeah if Tues they would extend the week for sure, no other way.

Don't get Netflix so bummer I won't be able to watch, maybe could figure out how to stream on my computer but that kinda sucks so not gonna bother with that.
 
Screw Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones is an *******. He’s also so illiquid he wants to sell parts of his team to the Saudis or other Middle East oilmen.

Listening to this guy attempt to constantly steer the commissioner’s boat reminds me that everything he wants will be a big “screw you” to the fans that make his league. Things don’t stay constant forever. Check your pipeline, Jerry, because your sport is dying on the vine and the more customers you lose, the more your kids will be wondering what to do with a big building with windows that let in the blinding sunlight.
 
Screw Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones is an *******. He’s also so illiquid he wants to sell parts of his team to the Saudis or other Middle East oilmen.

Listening to this guy attempt to constantly steer the commissioner’s boat reminds me that everything he wants will be a big “screw you” to the fans that make his league. Things don’t stay constant forever. Check your pipeline, Jerry, because your sport is dying on the vine and the more customers you lose, the more your kids will be wondering what to do with a big building with windows that let in the blinding sunlight.
But we're so close to the players leveraging their way to not having to practice, ever. Only good things are coming, you can count on it.
 
I have Netflix so it wasn’t a big deal that these games were streamed on that app. But there is a major glitch in their system.
I was jumping in and out of watch the game because Christmas Day (paused for a while, AppleTV fell asleep so woke it up came back to Netflix to resume watching) and when I hit the Resume (from where I left off), it flashed the LIVE feed for maybe 1 second before it jumped back to where I left off. The first time it happened I saw the score of the KC Pitt game in the mid-4th quarter and then it jumped back to the 2nd where I left off. Super frustrating.

So each time I jumped back in to the games today, I had to look away for a second to not have it spoiled.

Was it just me that this happened to?
 
I have Netflix so it wasn’t a big deal that these games were streamed on that app. But there is a major glitch in their system.
I was jumping in and out of watch the game because Christmas Day (paused for a while, AppleTV fell asleep so woke it up came back to Netflix to resume watching) and when I hit the Resume (from where I left off), it flashed the LIVE feed for maybe 1 second before it jumped back to where I left off. The first time it happened I saw the score of the KC Pitt game in the mid-4th quarter and then it jumped back to the 2nd where I left off. Super frustrating.

So each time I jumped back in to the games today, I had to look away for a second to not have it spoiled.

Was it just me that this happened to?
I had the same problem. I had to fast forward quite a bit every time I wanted to catch up to live.
 

Netflix smashes records with NFL doubleheader on Christmas Day. 65 million watched.​

I saw that but it seems a little hard to believe. Was this available on Netflix globally
Why wouldn't it be? Id imagine the NFL wants every pair of eyes on their product they can get.
Foreign licensing rights.
The NFL doesn't pay for those?
I’m not sure if it’s that simple and it’s Netflix that is paying for the right to broadcast, so I didn’t know what the deal was, but in any event, this article indicates at the end that the 65 million streams were worldwide: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/26/media/netflix-nfl-ratings/index.html
That makes more sense to me
 

Netflix smashes records with NFL doubleheader on Christmas Day. 65 million watched.​

I saw that but it seems a little hard to believe. Was this available on Netflix globally
Why wouldn't it be? Id imagine the NFL wants every pair of eyes on their product they can get.
Foreign licensing rights.
The NFL doesn't pay for those?
I’m not sure if it’s that simple and it’s Netflix that is paying for the right to broadcast, so I didn’t know what the deal was, but in any event, this article indicates at the end that the 65 million streams were worldwide: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/26/media/netflix-nfl-ratings/index.html
That makes more sense to me
Thanks. I feel the NFL would only do a deal with Netflix if they had the global audience, mainly since they're trying to expand the NFL International brand.
 
My guess is if it fell on a Tuesday I think they would extend that week so Tuesday is the last day of the week maybe ?

I can't see starting a new week on Tuesday but then again I couldn't see starting a week on a Wednesday.

The last few years the Christmas games fell on Week 16 schedule which was better but since the calendar flipped the schedule it pushed Christmas back to week 17 this year.

Looking ahead to next year it falls on a Thursday so they will probably add more games and have 3 games on that Thursday but at least it be on a Thursday what we are all used to.
Next year is a Thursday so they will likely do a triple header and add a night game. NBA should just move to Christmas Eve where the only competition is the Hawaii Bowl.

2026 is a Friday, 2027 is a Saturday and 2028 is a Monday so the NFL will easily play on Christmas the next four years.

The Tuesday Christmas Day is 2029 so we will find out in 5 years but I agree they will extend the current week one day.
 
With the injuries and these extra Wednesday games, it really wreaks havoc on setting a starting lineup, especially in leagues like FFPC where they only run waivers on Wednesday evening and Sunday morning. Can’t believe they didn’t at least pull the first waiver run up to Tuesday. That kinda stinks.
 

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