NFL on Netflix is a disaster in the making as streaming problems plague Chiefs vs Steelers game – Times of India

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One of the most anticipated matches this season is the match between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers which will start at 1 PM ET today. The game will be streamed exclusively on Netflix but it looks like Netflix has not learnt its lesson of streaming live events and the live streaming is already off to a bad start, even before the match began.

NFL Matches On Netflix Are Not Off To A Good Start

Netflix has not been able to improve its operations and now the NFL is suffering because of it. Kay Adams’ audio was not connected for the first 10 seconds of the Christmas broadcast. Not only could people not hear Kay Adams speaking but also the moment Mina Kimes began speaking, Netflix could not keep up. Out of nowhere, Mina Kimes’ commentary was cut off and Netflix started airing its popular show Squid Games’ trailer for the new season, which is releasing tomorrow.

NFL fans were left shocked at this poor quality of broadcasting by the streaming giant, Netflix. As many got together with their families and renewed their Netflix subscription to catch the two NFL matches streaming exclusively on Netflix today, fans were left fuming. Many fans took to X to complain about the broadcasting issue. One user wrote, “ @netflix is already failing the #NFL @NFL livestream and the game has not even started yet. 😡😭 @NFL . I knew this would happened based on the Tyson fight experience. #SteelersvsChiefs”, another user expressed frustration about this exclusive deal between NFL and Netflix and wrote, “ Absolutely hate @NFL on @netflix . This is garbage.”

Netflix Has Not Learnt From Its Previous Mistakes

At the start of this year, Netflix signed a deal worth $150 million with the NFL for the exclusive streaming rights for the two matches that will be held today – the Pittsburgh Steelers going against the Kansas City Chiefs at 1 PM ET today and the Baltimore Ravens going against the Houston Texans at 4:30 PM ET today. Netflix has promoted these matches for couple of months and while people had faith over how Netflix could pull off this job, people started having their doubts when Netflix live streamed the most anticipated boxing match between YouTuber Jake Paul and boxing legend Mike Tyson last month.
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Netflix completely messed up the boxing match with the screen freezing at important times which led to people getting really frustrated with Netflix. This cast a heavy doubt on whether Netflix will be able to pull off the two NFL matches on Christmas Day and Netflix reassured that this will be an easy task since they have learnt from their mistakes during the boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. But it looks like this was not the case since Netflix is having issues even before the actual game has begun.