Final Saturday night time, Mike Tyson fought Jake Paul in probably the most anticipated boxing matches in current reminiscence. Paul received fairly simply, however the combat didn’t utterly take middle stage that night time. Netflix, the streaming service airing the combat, struggled all through the night time, and viewers’ incapability to stream the combat with out points on their platform grew to become an enormous storyline. So, what does this need to do with the Pittsburgh Steelers?
Properly, because the NFL makes an attempt to achieve extra of a stronghold on Christmas Day viewership, it has scheduled the Steelers and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs to play on Dec. 25. That sport might be streamed by Netflix, which might be broadcasting the NFL for the primary time.
Professional Soccer Speak’s Mike Florio joined 93.7 The Fan on Wednesday morning and expressed some displeasure with Netflix. He has actual issues concerning the platform’s skill to stream the Steelers-Chiefs Christmas affair regardless of a report that the league is happy by Netflix’s assurances that its two Christmas Day broadcasts with go off with out a hitch.
“In fact, the NFL is gonna help Netflix,” Florio stated. “It’s too late to drag the plug, and so they’re getting $150 million for these two video games. I’d be very involved in case you’re not within the viewing space the place they’re gonna have the sport accessible on an over-the-air TV station. I’d be very involved with one thing occurring with that sport, each video games on Christmas day.”
The service did wrestle, however there are causes to be optimistic in the case of watching the sport. The Tyson-Paul combat on Saturday happened 5 weeks earlier than the Christmas video games. With that in thoughts, Netflix has loads of time to iron out any points.
It’s an enormous sport, and Netflix might want to get issues proper this time. The Chiefs are 9-1 and the Steelers at 8-2, each within the elite class of AFC. This sport ought to have main implications on the race for the primary playoff seed within the convention.
One factor is for positive, the viewers might be huge. Final 12 months, the Las Vegas Raiders beat the Chiefs in the identical time slot on the vacation with 37.2 million viewers tuning in to that sport. With each Pittsburgh and Kansas Metropolis having wonderful seasons, the same variety of followers, or much more, might tune in with their eggnog.
