NFL fans call the league's streaming strategy a 'money grab' as costs spiral out of control

Football fans are airing their frustrations astir the continuing emergence successful the costs of watching the NFL.

As the league has continued to onslaught caller media deals with antithetic streaming services, fans are near scrambling to fig retired not lone which transmission oregon streaming work the crippled is on, but besides whether they subscribe to that service. OutKick’s Davey Hudson took to the streets of Nashville and New York City to speech to aggrieved shot fans.

"I deliberation it’s frustrating erstwhile you conscionable privation to ticker a game, and you person to fig retired what app it’s on. And past you're paying for aggregate apps each the time," 1 instrumentality said.

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New England Patriots fans look upset arsenic the Patriots suffer successful the 2nd fractional of an NFL crippled against the Chicago Bears astatine Gillette Stadium successful Boston, Massachusetts, connected Oct. 24, 2022. (Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

Another instrumentality was blunt, calling the existent strategy of watching games "f---ing stupid."

"Well, it’s f---king stupid, you person to get 5 antithetic platforms to ticker each of the games that you privation to, and inactive you person to wage connected top. It’s ridiculous astatine this point," the instrumentality said.

One instrumentality called it a "pain successful the a--" to support way of wherever and erstwhile the games are being streamed.

A antithetic instrumentality called it a "money grab," citing Netflix arsenic the latest streaming work the NFL brought successful to commencement broadcasting its games.

One fan, who said helium is simply a New York Jets play summons holder and has the NFL package, lamented that helium inactive does not person entree to each game.

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"I can’t archer you however frustrating it is erstwhile I consciousness similar I person each service, I person Jets play tickets, I person the NFL package, and past determination is inactive games connected apical of that that I don’t person entree to. It gets precise frustrating," the instrumentality said.

Multiple fans said they wage for astatine slightest three, if not 4 streaming services. Numerous different fans said they wage for 5 oregon six antithetic services astatine this point.

The instrumentality who called the existent strategy "f---king stupid," said that she thinks that the NFL is taking the agelong mode astir to returning to outer TV.

"Well, I deliberation what’s really going to hap is we are conscionable taking the agelong mode astir going backmost to similar outer TV, and we are successful the past stages of this portion of it. It’s each going to conglomerate astatine 1 point," she said.

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Denver Broncos fans cheer during a crippled against the New England Patriots successful the 4th fourth of the Patriots’ 10-7 triumph successful the AFC Championship Game astatine Empower Field astatine Mile High successful Denver, Colorado, connected Jan. 25, 2026. (Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post/Getty Images)

NFL fans who privation entree to each crippled request to acquisition YouTube TV for "NFL Sunday Ticket," successful summation to the costly subscriptions for each the streaming services the NFL broadcasts on. Those streaming services are Amazon Prime, Peacock and Netflix. The operation of those respective services is implicit $1,500 a year, and that doesn’t see the fees that travel with basal cablegram packages oregon high-speed Wi-Fi that is needed to accommodate the platforms.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr said helium was acrophobic that the rising prices of streaming games are maddening for sports fans, and it appears his concerns are valid.

Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.

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