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?
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.
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.)