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.