This is more expensive than actual season tickets to every game for a team.
(Yes for 1 person, whereas TV can be watched by a group; but still it's crazy expensive.)
Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500
51–60 of 97 posts
Re: Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500
#52FTA: > The total cost for a football fan who doesn’t have cable to stream all 343 NFL games this season is about $1,700. The average NFL game is about 3 hours. That's 1,029 hours of content across all games. 1700/1029 = $1.65/hr for the content. That's a lot less than renting a movie. Yes, I know there are ads happening, too. Seems fine.
No person is going to watch every game as some games play at the same time. There should be a pay what you want to watch model that doesn't price higher then traditional plans.
[deleted]
Re: Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500
#53FTA: > The total cost for a football fan who doesn’t have cable to stream all 343 NFL games this season is about $1,700. The average NFL game is about 3 hours. That's 1,029 hours of content across all games. 1700/1029 = $1.65/hr for the content. That's a lot less than renting a movie. Yes, I know there are ads happening, too. Seems fine.
No matter what abomination of greed we witness on this website, there's always some sucker who's going to justify it.
Someone is always around to point out that entertainment is not food or health care and you are free to choose which, and how much to consume. And that consuming all of it, all the time, however you like, for pennies, is not a human right.
Re: Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500
#54Extremely inaccurate and sloppy article.
FOX, CBS, NBC, ABC are all free over the air.
RedZone doesn’t count because it is not “a game.” You wouldn’t watch every single game and then watch RedZone because you are duplicating content.
I have no idea why they’re saying Netflix costs $84 when you’re only subscribing for one month to get the Christmas games.
Same deal with Peacock, Amazon Prime Video, ESPN+ you only need to subscribe during the season.
Not sure if you can count preseason as “season,” or maybe they should change the article title.
NFL season is 5 months. This is my math:
YouTubeTV/Sunday Ticket $419
Amazon Prime Video: $45
Peacock: $8
ESPN+: $55
Netflix: $7
Total: $534 plus tax, add $50 if you give a shit about the preseason (nobody does)
Re: Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500
#55This is misleading. They are using the yearly cost for each streaming service but the NFL season is only about 5 months long including the playoffs. So you don't need to be subscribed for the whole year
And some of those streaming services are only getting one or two games. For instance, Netflix is only getting the Christmas games. They have Netflix listed as costing $84. If you only cared about the NFL games then you would only subscribe to Netflix for the month of December for $6.99. Peacock gets the Brazil game (which is tonight) and one playoff game in January so you'd only need two months of that. ESPN+ gets a game in week 7 so you'd only need one month of that.
Is it annoying to subscribe and cancel streaming services? Yes. But it wouldn't cost $2500 if you spend a few minutes cancelling each service.
Re: Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500
#56[deleted]
Re: Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500
#57FTA: > The total cost for a football fan who doesn’t have cable to stream all 343 NFL games this season is about $1,700. The average NFL game is about 3 hours. That's 1,029 hours of content across all games. 1700/1029 = $1.65/hr for the content. That's a lot less than renting a movie. Yes, I know there are ads happening, too. Seems fine.
I think it would make a little more sense if the games didn’t already have frequent commercial breaks and in-broadcast advertising.
They’d have to re-arrange how the sport works, I think. It’s a whole activity built for broadcast TV with commercial breaks.
If they cut the commercials you’d still have just as much time with nothing happening. An improvement, sure, but not great.
Re: Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500
#58Re: Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500
#59Living abroad, I used to pay about $150/year for NFL Gamepass, and it was really good. Every game from every season, with the commercials cut out so you could watch a game in about 2 hours. Visiting the US and watching a game on TV was suddenly really painful, with its extra hour (literally) of commercials interspersed.
Then, last season, the NFL sold their Gamepass service to DAZN, who immediately ruined it.
The replay games suddenly had commercials again. Not real commercials either, just 2 minutes of DAZN House Ads every few plays, when the US version would be showing truck commercials. Even a week later after they should have had time to edit them down.
And you couldn't find your team's game to watch anyway, because they killed the team pages. Now all you get is a Netflix-style horizontal scroll of DAZN's "Football" category, showing six games at a time and a little right arrow to page by one game at a time.
It was amazing how fast I went from a loyal customer on autopay for years to demanding a refund and just not watching football anymore.
Re: Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500
#60This is a bad article. The highest cost is network television/cable which is free if you buy an hd antenna
What part of every single game did you not understand? Even if you have an HD antenna, there are black out rules so that if not enough tickets are sold for the game, the game will not be broadcast in the local area. I'm guessing that's pretty rare now, but it was part of my childhood for the extended family to go the family's lake cabin to see the game on TV. Never did anyone actually go to the game contributing to t…
> there are black out rules so that if not enough tickets are sold for the game, the game will not be broadcast in the local area.
The NFL stopped doing this in 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_television_blackout_polici....