NFL fans worried about Christmas games streamed on Netflix after Paul-Tyson fight buffering debacle

Netflix whitethorn beryllium proceeding from the NFL aft the mode the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson watercourse went connected Friday night. 

Many streamers weren’t pleased with however the lawsuit was buffering passim the combat card, including the main lawsuit erstwhile Paul and Tyson entered the ring. It was Netflix’s archetypal monolithic sporting event, but the bandwidth issues person viewers acrophobic astir what volition hap connected Christmas. 

Netflix is acceptable for its NFL debut doubleheader connected Christmas, arsenic the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers spell head-to-head earlier the Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans play arsenic good connected that Wednesday night. 

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Four passionate fanbases with immense AFC implications don’t privation to spot the aforesaid issues with their game, yet it’s hard to consciousness assured aft what went down with this boxing lucifer astatine AT&T Stadium, the location of the Dallas Cowboys, connected Friday night. 

"This is simply a catastrophe for Netflix," OutKick’s Clay Travis tweeted. "They person nary accidental of successfully airing a Chiefs-Steelers Christmas Day NFL crippled based connected this performance. 

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Randy Baumann, a Pittsburgh sports vigor host, adjacent suggested that buffering during the Steelers crippled would pb to immoderate tossed Christmas meal tables. 

"If the Steelers Chiefs Christmas Day crippled connected #Netflix looks similar this determination are going to beryllium tables overturned with fractional eaten Christmas hams each implicit occidental PA," he tweeted. "Scalloped potatoes volition beryllium hurled astatine aunts and uncles. #BedlamInBlawnox."

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Netflix, similar galore different apical streaming services, paid a handsome sum of astir $150 million, according to the New York Post, to aerial the Christmas Day NFL games. 

But six weeks from now, the streaming work surely hopes they tin get the occupation done overmuch amended than the Paul-Tyson fight. 

Even Jerry Jones, proprietor of the Cowboys who made an quality connected Friday nighttime to speech astir his excitement for the NFL connected Netflix, was buffering for immoderate viewers portion talking.

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Other streaming services that person had occurrence airing NFL games are Amazon Prime Video, which owns the media rights to "Thursday Night Football," and Peacock, which airs "Sunday Night Football" fixed its NBC ties arsenic good arsenic playoff games past season. 

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