Peacock exclusive playoff game is stupid

[treeguy27]

Bad move by the league. Quit being greedy and keeping your customers from watching your product.

Surely they wont put Mahomes in that game but who knows.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by DaFace

The reality is that the future is a streaming world. You can figure it out now or figure it out later, but throwing a fit over something that costs about 10% of even the most modest cable subscription just seems silly.

Try being a fan of any sport other than football. For years I've had to chase NHL, MLB, and NBA games around on all sorts of cable networks (e.g., TNT, NBC Sports, A&T SportsNet, Root Sports, and dozens more over the years). It's infuriating as someone who doesn't want to pay $100+ per month for cable. The quicker that model dies, the happier I will be.

It's not just six bucks. It's the first shots of the war. It's "just a little skirmish" at Lexington and Concord. It's the sighting of a Japanese scout plane flying over Hawaii. We're not fighting for six bucks here. We're fighting for our long-term freedom as football fans. Give me ad-supported free TV or give me death.

[Abba-Dabba]

Originally Posted by DaFace

The reality is that the future is a streaming world. You can figure it out now or figure it out later, but throwing a fit over something that costs about 10% of even the most modest cable subscription just seems silly.

Try being a fan of any sport other than football. For years I've had to chase NHL, MLB, and NBA games around on all sorts of cable networks (e.g., TNT, NBC Sports, A&T SportsNet, Root Sports, and dozens more over the years). It's infuriating as someone who doesn't want to pay $100+ per month for cable. The quicker that model dies, the happier I will be.

It will probably be on NFLN the next morning.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

It's not just six bucks. It's the first shots of the war. It's "just a little skirmish" at Lexington and Concord. It's the sighting of a Japanese scout playing flying over Hawaii. We're not fighting for six bucks here. We're fighting for our long-term freedom as football fans. Give me ad-supported free TV or give me death.

The first shots were in 2006 when they gave the rights to Monday Night Football to ESPN.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by DaFace

The first shots were in 2006 when they gave the rights to Monday Night Football to ESPN.

That was the Stamp Act. It built the undercurrent of anger that has reached the flash point. What's next? The NFL quartering players in our homes?

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by seamonster

I just won't watch the game.

Originally Posted by Abba-Dabba

It will probably be on NFLN the next morning.

It's beyond me that any fan of this team in the Patrick Mahomes era could consider either of these to be acceptable solutions.

[kcxiv]

I've already had it for 2 years, its where i watch Supercross. Plus, every once ina while ill go back to 1985 and watch the super told Wrestlemania's lol

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by DaFace

The reality is that the future is a streaming world. You can figure it out now or figure it out later, but throwing a fit over something that costs about 10% of even the most modest cable subscription just seems silly.

Try being a fan of any sport other than football. For years I've had to chase NHL, MLB, and NBA games around on all sorts of cable networks (e.g., TNT, NBC Sports, A&T SportsNet, Root Sports, and dozens more over the years). It's infuriating as someone who doesn't want to pay $100+ per month for cable. The quicker that model dies, the happier I will be.

I agree it's something you evolve to. I'm loving YouTube TV. It isn't something you experiment with in a game of this magnitude. It's quite a bit different when comparing a niche cable station broadcasting the game vs a major primetime station. I subscribe to nba TV as well but at least I'm getting the full season versus just 1 game. I view these 2 things as a privilege to access games I might not otherwise access on cable.

If you want to prep us all season long for how peacock fits into the overall mix of nfl games fine. If you want to experiment as Amazon did by showing a few games followed by a regular TNF schedule... Fine. But don't at the 25th hour swoop in and make an otherwise free mass market game with huge implications pay per view. If it's anything like peacocks previous releases where streaming was glitchy and bars were complaining,I have a really bad feeling we will end up with another klunky, not so well thought out rollout.

[treeguy27]

It's not about the 6 bucks, it's about easy access to the games. There are millions of fans who wont be able to watch or decide it's not worth the hassle to watch. Elderly who aren't tech savvy, rural fans who don't have good enough internet to stream, OTA and basic cable subscribers who have never had to stream anything and may not have a smart TV or device capable of streaming. Peacock and the NFL will make plenty of extra money on this game, but there will be way less eyeballs on the game and that's not a good thing for the NFL going forward.

[Rain Man]

It looks like I'm screwed by my attempt to use my "free peacock premium" account through xfinity. I don't get peacock and I can't cancel the account. Xfinitty/Comcast continues to live up to their reputation as the world's worst company.

https://forums.xfinity.com/conversat...28f948d8d529f3

[MatriculatingHank]

You guys do realize that everygame is available for free on the internet that you are currently using to view this post???

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by DaFace

The reality is that the future is a streaming world. You can figure it out now or figure it out later, but throwing a fit over something that costs about 10% of even the most modest cable subscription just seems silly.

Try being a fan of any sport other than football. For years I've had to chase NHL, MLB, and NBA games around on all sorts of cable networks (e.g., TNT, NBC Sports, A&T SportsNet, Root Sports, and dozens more over the years). It's infuriating as someone who doesn't want to pay $100+ per month for cable. The quicker that model dies, the happier I will be.

End of the day, would I spend $5 to watch the Chiefs in the playoffs... it grinds my gears that it's $5 and 50% commercials and in game commercials and so forth, but whatever, just call it what it is as PPV and I'll pay $5.

And I'm not one for slippery slope arguments due to one inconvenience, but if one day it's going to require Prime and Peacock to watch the playoffs, and NFLN... then FFS just start charging people to watch your shit instead of subscription services that you have to sign up for and then cancel, or at the very least put it all on ESPN+ and leave people the **** alone who just want to pay for Peacock without sports ruining the price just like cable (because you know the price will go up for this).

And stay off my lawn.

[kcxiv]

Originally Posted by treeguy27

It's not about the 6 bucks, it's about easy access to the games. There are millions of fans who wont be able to watch or decide it's not worth the hassle to watch. Elderly who aren't tech savvy, rural fans who don't have good enough internet to stream, OTA and basic cable subscribers who have never had to stream anything and may not have a smart TV or device capable of streaming. Peacock and the NFL will make plenty of extra money on this game, but there will be way less eyeballs on the game and that's not a good thing for the NFL going forward.

There is people from out of state who are fans like me that were paying for Chiefs games for 20 years with the NFL game pass, for alot of us, this isnt new.

Also, the last few years though, they started to show more Chiefs games locally in California where i live, because the Raiders have left, so they dont get local coverage anymore. Chiefs have taken their spot for the most part. lol

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

I agree it's something you evolve to. I'm loving YouTube TV. It isn't something you experiment with in a game of this magnitude. It's quite a bit different when comparing a niche cable station broadcasting the game vs a major primetime station. I subscribe to nba TV as well but at least I'm getting the full season versus just 1 game. I view these 2 things as a privilege to access games I might not otherwise access on cable.

If you want to prep us all season long for how peacock fits into the overall mix of nfl games fine. If you want to experiment as Amazon did by showing a few games followed by a regular TNF schedule... Fine. But don't at the 25th hour swoop in and make an otherwise free mass market game with huge implications pay per view. If it's anything like peacocks previous releases where streaming was glitchy and bars were complaining,I have a really bad feeling we will end up with another klunky, not so well thought out rollout.

They did have one other exclusive game - 12/23 Bills vs. Chargers. Not sure if that's "prepping us all season," but they did give us once chance. (That's actually why I already have a subscription.)

[Spott]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe counties in South Florida will get the game on the local NBC affiliate.

What about Orange(Orlando)?

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

I agree it's something you evolve to. I'm loving YouTube TV. It isn't something you experiment with in a game of this magnitude. It's quite a bit different when comparing a niche cable station broadcasting the game vs a major primetime station. I subscribe to nba TV as well but at least I'm getting the full season versus just 1 game. I view these 2 things as a privilege to access games I might not otherwise access on cable.

If you want to prep us all season long for how peacock fits into the overall mix of nfl games fine. If you want to experiment as Amazon did by showing a few games followed by a regular TNF schedule... Fine. But don't at the 25th hour swoop in and make an otherwise free mass market game with huge implications pay per view. If it's anything like peacocks previous releases where streaming was glitchy and bars were complaining,I have a really bad feeling we will end up with another klunky, not so well thought out rollout.

I agree that one game on a Saturday night that involves one of the least interested fanbases in the NFL isn't good enough to say the platform is good to go for live streaming an NFL playoff game.

Not that I'm doubting any due diligence was done and hoping the platform can handle it, but the 7 million viewers for that game was half of what Prime sees and a quarter of what the playoffs grab.

It'll probably be a backup for me if other streaming options suck or aren't available.