The season opener from Brazil will not be on broadcast TV and will only be shown on Peacock. A Wild Card playoff game will only be available on Amazon Prime. I guess the much reduced viewership and fan backlash on the Peacock-only game last season didn't matter as much to the league bosses as the path they are paving to eventually having every game locked up on a pay-as-you-go site.
Meh, just search reddit NFL streams and you'll find it. I can't imagine paying for peacock for 1-2 games that I don't really care about.
I have Peacock for English Premier League so this won't affect me but boy this streaming thing is getting out of control. Sports is supposed to be affordable for average Joe. Either average Joe is becoming richer and richer with increased cost of attending games live and paying for streaming fee or NFL is heading down a path where average Joe will say fuck it and abandon the ship.
With our luck, the WC game will be our first playoff appearance in 14 years, and we have to pay to see it.
Sports stopped being for the average when they legalized sports betting and then the league bought a stake in it. Fans really stopped mattering to the league at that moment.
The game will be shown on TV if you are in metro area of the teams playing. But you are right. This is pure Jets luck and it 100% happen if we make the playoffs
But byz, isn't this streaming thing working against the betting companies? Don't they want games shown to as many people as possible? Seems counter intuitive if we are approaching from gambling angle.
It's the having games on holidays that the bookies get the little push in business. Games spread out over multiple days will also bring in much more than a full slate of games on one day. The bookies don't care where it's aired
I agree with Waterboy, gambling sites and bookies take bets no matter what the broadcast is. I'm pretty sure boxing still has an enormous betting line and it's been strictly PPV for top events going back like 30 years.
What I think would be cool is a local venue that's kind of like a bar with mock stadium seating and a big open area in the center that employs a full holographic reproduction (at a much smaller scale) of the game on the field excluding the stadium stands. Looks like there is already a patent for that type of tech for that specific reason. https://patents.google.com/patent/CN114270255A/en Of course the league would have to allow access to the tech so they would be heavily invested and turn it into another cash cow. And all of the coolness would be leeched out of it. Yeah nevermind.
Eventually every game will be on streaming and you'll have to shell out for each of the streaming platforms and then have to pay an additional premium on top of that base subscription price to watch the games.
