Watching every NFL game costs around $2,500 and requires six logins. And other leagues are going to follow this model.
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That sounds very over the top, but I don't know enough about the US, NFL or TV to dispute that.
For La Liga (or F1/MotoGP for that matter) you can at least get away with a ~30 EUR/month subscription to see the games, with various providers. Is there really not one network broadcasting/streaming all the games somewhere?
The rights to each “day” of games then get sold off separately. So right now Thursday games are on Prime, Monday games are on ESPN+, and Sunday Night games are on Peacock. Generally the steaming services want to use the games as an onboarding tool, so they are not available anywhere else and you have to subscribe to their whole streaming service, not just the games.
There is a service called “NFL Sunday Ticket” but it only lets you watch the games that aren’t available to you in some other way (so if it’s on Prime it’s not on NFL Sunday Ticket for anyone and if it’s on old-school antenna broadcast it’s not on NFL Sunday Ticket if the broadcast is too close to you).
To watch all of the NFL games you’ll need:
- Prime
- ESPN+
- Peacock
- Cable/Antenna/Fubo/YouTube TV (for home-team Sunday games)
- NFL Sunday Ticket (for other Sunday games)
(Or you can just pirate them, which is cheap and easy.)
because watching every single NFL game is over the top. people watch their team's games, and maybe whatever else is on if their team isn't playing. they don't watch every game ever. except for a few hardcore weirdos, and $2500 is a reasable price to pay if you're that into it.
streaming rights are a mess, and there's certainly room for it to be a lot more user-friendly. but watching every single game isn't a useful metric.
I'm not much of a football fan, really only following my local team and one other. But now I watch the highlights of almost every other game on YT.
I'm not so sure. I can easily get access to all La Liga matches for waay less than ~$2,500, and the same goes for most non-American sports I care to watch sometimes. I was even surprised how easy it was to get HBO Max to watch every single Olympic event this year, think it cost 15-20 EUR in total or something. For reference, this is for a Spanish resident, so YMMV.
La Liga and Bundesliga are both on ESPN+ in a single sub, all Serie A and Champions League matches are on Paramount+, all MLS matches are on Apple+, etc.
NBA is dead to me. NHL is fine but not worth paying for. Not a big NFL fan and I'd buy MLS if it were unbundled from AppleTV+. I'm not paying for both.
Just one man's opinion.
1. $2500 is one year of cable + streaming services required to watch every football game. If you don’t have cable it’s $1700.
2. $1700 is the cost to maintain all of those services year round; the regular season + playoffs is 5 months long
It’s probably more like $800, which is still a lot, especially when they’re already monetizing the product by shoving ads down our throats every 30 seconds (though it’s a different “they”)