Also, I did get to continue watching the Sony Open golf tournament today when NBC switched their coverage away from it at 6 without having to go to the golf channel I no longer have.

No issues, and matter of fact, the picture quality was stellar

We were at The Rooster in Scottsdale; one TV was a full five minutes behind. On Patrick's long run into the red zone, the TVs buffered and we missed part of it.

We had a $2.85 surcharge on our bill. Don't care; we didn't have a reservation and some great people let us sit at their table, drink beer, cheer the Chiefs and have a great time.

Same

It's a cool place and I considered calling them to ask if they'd get the game, but just watched at home.

In my limited experience, it fills up similarly to a sports bar in KC before a game, where you have to get there fairly early. Great to see in the desert.

Where are you heading? Belize?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Peacock paid the NFL $110 million for the exclusive rights to last night&#39;s playoff game.<br><br>As a result, they hit #1 overall on the app store, and their search volume on Google is currently 2x higher than at any other point in history.<br><br>The power of the NFL is unmatched. <a href="https://t.co/aPObVKLK2M">pic.twitter.com/aPObVKLK2M</a></p>&mdash; Joe Pompliano (@JoePompliano) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoePompliano/status/1746552874899792260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I really liked it.

Fixed it for you

It's even higher now that the numbers have settled. Looks to be about 4x previous peak and 10x normal search volume.

https://trends.google.com/trends/exp...h582cpmh&hl=en

23 million streamed the game last night. It will happen again. Average wild card game last year was 25 million.

They just said 23m viewers during the Lions-Rams halftime show, which makes it the most streamed event of all time. Looks like last year's wildcard games averaged 28.4 million viewers for context.

Still, I bet they're pretty happy about that for a first effort. Last year's Saturday night game only got 20.6m, though the game wasn't particularly interesting (Chargers @ Jags).

Even with sometimes questionable internet in a rural area I didn't even have 1 issue with lag or buffering at any time. I also enjoyed how they showed shots around the stadium during the TV timeouts when they weren't running ads.

the big question is how many will dump it when the free month is over

Fine let them expand on this model, they'll never get a dime from me... I'd rather fight thru some constantly buffering shitshow than give in