Netflix could also be listening to from the NFL after the best way the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson stream went on Friday night time.
Many streamers weren’t happy with how the occasion was buffering all through the battle card, together with the principle occasion when Paul and Tyson entered the ring. It was Netflix’s first huge sporting occasion, however the bandwidth points have viewers involved about what is going to occur on Christmas.
Netflix is ready for its NFL debut doubleheader on Christmas, because the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers go head-to-head earlier than the Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans play as nicely on that Wednesday night time.
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4 passionate fanbases with enormous AFC implications don’t wish to see the identical points with their recreation, but it’s arduous to really feel assured after what went down with this boxing match at AT&T Stadium, the house of the Dallas Cowboys, on Friday night time.
“This is a disaster for Netflix,” OutKick’s Clay Travis tweeted. “They have no chance of successfully airing a Chiefs-Steelers Christmas Day NFL game based on this performance.
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Randy Baumann, a Pittsburgh sports radio host, even suggested that buffering during the Steelers game would lead to some tossed Christmas dinner tables.
“If the Steelers Chiefs Christmas Day recreation on #Netflix appears like this there are going to be tables overturned with half eaten Christmas hams throughout western PA,” he tweeted. “Scalloped potatoes will likely be hurled at aunts and uncles. #BedlamInBlawnox.”
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Netflix, like 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 surely hopes they can get the job done much better than the Paul-Tyson fight.
Even Jerry Jones, owner of the Cowboys who made an appearance on Friday night to talk about his excitement for the NFL on Netflix, was buffering for some viewers while talking.
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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 time Soccer,” and Peacock, which airs “Sunday Night time Soccer” given its NBC ties as well as playoff games last season.
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