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This year's Christmas Day double-header will begin with a matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers, followed by a game between the Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans, the league said. Netflix is paying about $75 million a game this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

Should spur some interesting  and enlightening debate when people realize this.

I suspect there will be less griping about this than there was with Peacock (or even Amazon) owing to the popularity and vastly larger Netflix subscriber base.

Do we really need games on Christmas Day?

Quote from: EDjohnst1981 on May 16, 2024, 09:18:18 AMDo we really need games on Christmas Day?

The NFL has a 150 million reasons to have Christmas Day games

NBA has been doing it for years.  NHL [sometimes? ] too?.  Yep....$$$$$$$$

Quote from: MightyGiants on May 16, 2024, 08:52:48 AMI suspect there will be less griping about this than there was with Peacock (or even Amazon) owing to the popularity and vastly larger Netflix subscriber base.

I feel like Amazon would have more subscribers than Netflix, but you may be right.  I know some people just don't stream and if their cable company doesn't provide access to the app, then they don't know how to get it.  I just figure 100,000,000 Prime subscriptions means a lot of people have prime video

Isn't Christmas on a Wednesday? This makes no sense at all.

Quote from: uconnjack8 on May 16, 2024, 10:20:05 AMI feel like Amazon would have more subscribers than Netflix, but you may be right.  I know some people just don't stream and if their cable company doesn't provide access to the app, then they don't know how to get it.  I just figure 100,000,000 Prime subscriptions means a lot of people have prime video

The U.S. is the largest market for Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, based on viewer numbers forecast for 2024. The country is estimated to have over 173 million Netflix and around 164 million Prime viewers.

Quote from: TDToomer on May 16, 2024, 11:35:11 AMIsn't Christmas on a Wednesday? This makes no sense at all.

I agree, but the NFL doesn't care. Although they will preach about player safety, the bottom line is they just want to make money. It's getting ridiculous

Quote from: ozzie on May 17, 2024, 12:41:04 PMthe bottom line is they just want to make money. It's getting ridiculous

I am in no way trying to be a smart-ass here, but is that not true of any large, for-profit business?

Quote from: DaveBrown74 on May 17, 2024, 05:06:31 PMI am in no way trying to be a smart-ass here, but is that not true of any large, for-profit business?

Hey that's a valid observation.
It is, but IMO most businesses aren't the type where over working someone on little rest may result in serious injury and then claim employee safety is their #1 goal.

Quote from: ozzie on May 17, 2024, 08:47:10 PMHey that's a valid observation.
It is, but IMO most businesses aren't the type where over working someone on little rest may result in serious injury and then claim employee safety is their #1 goal.

Is there evidence that suggests short weeks are causing more injuries?

I have thought the amount of guys sitting out Thursday games that would have played Sunday would be an interesting data point.