Netflix has about six weeks to figure it out.
The streaming service's first attempt to broadcast a major live sports event, with Mike Tyson boxing against Jake Paul on Friday night, resulted in viewers furious over buffering issues as Netflix didn't have the necessary bandwidth. As a result, it became a nightmare.
Netflix is set to air an NFL doubleheader on Christmas, featuring the Chiefs vs. Steelers and Ravens vs. Texans games, both of which will have major implications for the AFC playoffs.
Concerns are already circulating on social media that Netflix won't be able to accommodate everyone who wants to watch the NFL on Christmas, as sports fans face obstacles to watching the Tyson vs. Paul game. Ta.
“This is a disaster for Netflix. There's no chance they'll successfully air the Chiefs vs. Steelers Christmas Day NFL game based on this performance,” said OutKick founder Clay Travis. I wrote to X.
Pittsburgh sports talk radio host Randy Bauman has exaggeratedly imagined a horrifying scene if Netflix were to make another streaming fiasco on Christmas.
“If this is what the Steelers-Chiefs Christmas Day game on #Netflix looks like, tables with half-eaten Christmas hams will be overturned all over Western Pennsylvania. Scalloped Potatoes is thrown by my aunt and uncle #BedlamInBlawnox,” Bauman wrote about X.
nfl meme account I posted a video with the caption“If Netflix Broadcast NFL Games,” Jaden Daniels was recently in the middle of singing Mary's Praise to Noah Brown to beat the Bears, when the play buffered and a subsequent error message appeared.
Tone Diggs, contributor to “The Pat McAfee Show” Alert Netflix.
“Tonight is all about fun @netflix, but if you ruin your family's Christmas just because you can't watch the Steelers…you're going to pay a hell of a price,” he wrote.
Netflix is reportedly paying about $150 million to air NFL doubleheaders.
