Football General Talk

[mtmuley]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/01/13/dolphins-chiefs-peacock/

"The NFL has shown Thursday night games on Amazon’s Prime Video the past two seasons, but putting games on Peacock is a different animal in terms of availability. Peacock has 30 million subscribers; Prime Video has around 180 million.

That is precisely why NBC wants the NFL on Peacock. The network shelled out $110 million, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, for this game (Chiefs/Dolphins) in addition to the around $1 billion it pays for its “Sunday Night Football” package. Customers will be able to pay $5.99 to sign up for Peacock, and NBC hopes they stick around."

I'm not paying 6 bucks to watch it. mtmuley

 

[Gellar]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/01/13/dolphins-chiefs-peacock/

"The NFL has shown Thursday night games on Amazon’s Prime Video the past two seasons, but putting games on Peacock is a different animal in terms of availability. Peacock has 30 million subscribers; Prime Video has around 180 million.

That is precisely why NBC wants the NFL on Peacock. The network shelled out $110 million, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, for this game (Chiefs/Dolphins) in addition to the around $1 billion it pays for its “Sunday Night Football” package. Customers will be able to pay $5.99 to sign up for Peacock, and NBC hopes they stick around."

$110 million for 1 game in the wild card playoffs. Jeezus. They will no doubt have some blatherskite doing the commentary.

 

[Southern Elk]

I'm not paying 6 bucks to watch it. mtmuley

Me neither. It’s not much money, more the principle of it. I’ll watch some free college basketball instead.

 

[EYJONAS!]

The Texans are just laying the wood to Cleveland. Happy to see Demeco have some success with his young team!

 

[BrentD]

The Texans are just laying the wood to Cleveland. Happy to see Demeco have some success with his young team!

It was a great game for about a quarter.

 

[Corn king 60]

I'm not paying 6 bucks to watch it. mtmuley

Me neither
F the nfl and peacock

 

[Corn king 60]

Just keep posting tailgate pics and I’ll won’t even care about the game

 

[mtmuley]

The Texans are just laying the wood to Cleveland. Happy to see Demeco have some success with his young team!

Flacco was a great story. Saw some experts rank the Browns as high as number 4 in their list. Overreaction for sure. mtmuley

 

[406dn]

I thought the Browns would have a better game. I kind feel for Flacco, not the way you'd like to have it end.

Regarding Peacock and paying to watch the game. I'll do it when 4ell freezes over. It does tell you what they think of their viewership. We are nothing but a cash cow to them. I would wager that even after shelling out money to watch it, the ads will still intrude on the game.

 

[Gellar]

Lots of sleeveless players in KC.

 

[more_cowbell]

Maybe nfl is hoping all those Swifties sign up for peacock to watch this game, then forget about the recurring monthly 6.99. Like a gym membership

 

[VikingsGuy]

If they would then go zero-commercials except for halftime then it would be worth it and fans in stadium would benefit too. But paying $7 for what has always been free sucks.

 

[Gellar]

I’m listening to it on the radio. Chiefs just scored!

 

[seeth07]

I'm watching the wild hockey game instead. Screw peacock

 

[Gellar]

 

[Hem]

My wife informed me I need to root for KC. "They have Americas power couple"..."it's like American royalty".
Hahahahaha.

 

[BrentD]

I'm watching it on my phone. Not ideal. But I'm also reloading pheasant ammo. I'll say one thing, Pacheco wants to win bad. I really like that guy. Tyreek did his thing as well. Some really good ball in tropical weather, great ball in these conditions. KC 7-13.

 

[ccc23454]

That ball seems to be a rock!

 

[JEL]

I was wrong. It’s not on NBC over air. Poaching my DILs peacock account. KC up 16-7 at half.

 

[VikingsGuy]

Mahomes, Pacheco and Rice are the class of the game.