It isn’t the primary and it’ll not be the final, however that doesn’t make it any extra palatable for some followers
The NFL granted Prime Video the unique broadcasting rights for the AFC wild-card spherical recreation between the Steelers and Ravens that kicked off at 8 p.m. Saturday, and followers, caught on the opposite aspect of the paywall as soon as once more, are fuming.
“Just another reason to quit watching the NFL … putting playoff games on prime, what a joke,” wrote one.
“The day has finally come where they are ruining the sport … Wake up NFL! not everyone can afford to pay for prime video,” mentioned one other.
“We as a country need to rally together and fight back against the NFL and all the streaming services,” opined a 3rd.
Final season, the NFL signed a $100 million deal that allowed Peacock to broadcast a wild-card spherical recreation between the Dolphins and the Chiefs.
The sport reached a complete of 32.1 million viewers, turning into, on the time, the most-streamed dwell occasion in U.S. historical past.
Amazon smashed the earlier take care of Peacock with a brand new record-setting fee — $120 million — for the rights to the Steelers-Ravens matchup, Entrance Workplace Sports activities reported.
This comes after Amazon paid about $100 million to stream the league’s first Black Friday recreation between the Dolphins and Jets in November 2023.
Amazon additionally streams “Thursday Night Football” video games, a deal that prices round $1 billion per season.
That deal runs by 2033.
