The NFL and Roger Goodell continue to catch heat for their tone-deaf decision of placing the Kansas City Chiefs–Miami Dolphins postseason clash exclusively on Peacock. Fans and media members are ripping the league’s higher-ups for selling the rights to a playoff game to a streaming provider, leaving many unable to watch the highly anticipated rematch between the Chiefs and Dolphins. The NFL’s determination to sell out during the league’s most prominent time of the year has even drawn outrage from politicians. On Friday, New York congressman Pat Ryan took to Twitter (also known as X) to demand the league and NBCSports end “this Peacock bait-and-switch BS and offer the Dolphins-Chiefs game on TV.”
How much more profit do Goodell and NBC need to make at the expense of hard working Americans?
I'm demanding @NFL and @NBCSports end this Peacock bait-and-switch BS and offer the Dolphins-Chiefs game on TV.
Millions of loyal fans already pay for NBC. Let us watch the damn game! pic.twitter.com/cciqwvZDoE
— Rep. Pat Ryan (@RepPatRyanNY) January 12, 2024
Rep Pat Ryan: Rips NFL and Roger Goodell for Peacock Game
Ryan sent a letter to the NFL on Friday, calling out the league for selling out during the postseason. He said, “The NFL playoffs begin tomorrow, and millions of fans are looking forward to kicking back and watching their favorite teams play. It’s a tradition as American as apple pie…Yet this year, you’ve decided to rip off fans by exclusively broadcasting tomorrow’s Chiefs vs. Dolphins wildcard game on Peacock. For the first time ever, fans will be forced to choose between signing up for yet another expensive streaming service or missing out on a major playoff game.”
Ryan continued, “This bait-and-switch is particularly egregious for consumers who already pay for NBC as part of their cable package. Since Peacock is a subsidiary of NBC/Universal, this exclusive deal essentially double-charges loyal fans to watch games they thought they had already paid for.”
Fans without Peacock must sign up for the paid service or stream the game illegally. The idea of signing up for Peacock and paying a monthly subscription for just the Kansas City Chiefs against the Miami Dolphins game has angered NFL fans, calling for the league, like Ryan, to place the contest on regular broadcasting.
“The NFL raked in $12 billion in 2022, while NVC/Universal made nearly $40 billion… The NFL and NBC must make this right. I’m requesting that you offer the game on broadcast television and end the exclusive and exploitative streaming deals for good.”
Kansas City Chiefs: Host Miami Dolphins in Record-Setting Cold Weather
The Kansas City Chiefs will host the Miami Dolphins on Saturday. The weather is projected to hit as low as -4 degrees, with winds as high as 30 MPH. The Chiefs and Dolphins played earlier this season in Germany, with Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes going 20 of 30 for 185 yards and two scores. KC won 21-14, surviving a second-half comeback from Miami.
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55 Comments
Nbc is just trying ti rip people off to increase slumping peacock subscriptions……this is wrong, but noone will “boycott” the game so the network will win………baaaaaa
I’ll be honest, Bill. I will watch the NFL through almost anything. I draw the line at exclusivity to a streaming service. I’m going to a bar tonight and if they don’t have it… they don’t have it. Not stressing.
Pkease keep us peons posted if Peacock was able to make back their 110 million dollar gamble forcing Americans to subscribe just to watch one game that we already paid for thru a cable service.
Cable customers pkease check how to become a cable cutter & not pay to watch television. I truly thought America seen thru their issues last year when most figured out that the problem with our problems is a greed issue not an inflation issue any longer. Let’s make them pay instead of the regular Joe.
My opinion and I Love Travis & Taylor, however I think …They knew She wud be there and Swifties wud subscribe to The trial whatever BS and We’ll Go figure Imtsure the numbers $$ were good… Do Better NFL 👎👎
I’m done never watching NFL ever the hell with them I hope the whole country stops watching it over paid assholes. They need money get a real job like the rest of us they sold out like our country did.
This was a bunch of Horsepucky. Pay for NBC??? I get it free. Call me old fashion but I kicked the dish off my roof and installed 4 antennas. Each one picks up CBS ABC PBS NBC towers. I haven’t had a cable/sat bill in 4 years. Fox channel comes on thru Nbc’s tower. I get 27 channels.
I think it is so wrong .how the start game on NBC and next thing you know the game cut off. We sure boycott Peacock because I am not paying for it.
Luckaly, I got to view the game due to be in the local viewing area.
Unfortunately for the other parts of the Country, this goes to show how Money makes Money…….
Same goes for College games too… ESPN is also guilty of this.
I already had Peacock, I canceled it before the game aired. Total BS
I will NEVER subscribe to Peacock again and actually would cancel our other apps except our cell phone includes Disney, ESPN and HULU. NBC UNIVERSAL NEEDS TO STOP THEIR GREED NONSENSE.
Most Americans already pay for this through their cable provider but now NBC UNIVERSAL wants us to pay them twice. I pass, you keep it.. You greedy pos.
Exactly. F*** this streaming bull****! Sick of you money grabbing, motherf***ers!
Peacock is ridiculous
Shows that the higher ups don’t make the right decisions
Another We don’t care about the fans of this great game unless you’re prepared to keep shelling out to the highest bidder. NFL play-off on a pay basis? Go to a bar? Careful driving out there. No shame. FU.
NFL as Hank Stram said many years ago Not For Long
I hope peacock loses their ass. I am furious
Could NOT have said it better. Fans matter and why do that to their own state. My husband and i will not support this.
It is BS that these games are shown on streaming services only.
Shut down Peacock permanently
I had to say goodbye to Dr Pol because You have to stream it now through the disney+ yet my cable rates go up! This is all an outrage!!
We haven’t had a Fox network available to us on DirecTV or Dish for almost 2 NFL seasons and we haven’t could care less
To hell with Fox & the NFL.
Suddenly we became fans of College football & discovered they are not a bunch of overpaid crybabies!!
The sun will still come up tomorrow I’m not watching the game
Hey Blood Suckers, I’m 64, disabled on SS fixed income . Paying over $100/MO. for cable in Harrisburg PA. Been a Phin’s fan 50 yrs. Game means a lot to me. YOU SLEEP ETERNALLY WELL TONIGHT!!! GREEDY #♡CKS
I pay 160 months for cable is that enough greedy. I’ll just go to a sports, bar and watch.
W….NBC iIS A LOW LIFE LIBERAL , FAR LEFT MULTI BILLON $$$ TV STATION THAT LIES THRU THEIR NEWS AND BUSINESS DEALS TO THE HARDWORKING REAL AMERICANS OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY !!!.
I agree with you and all of the comments that I’ve read. However, I do take exception to a congressman trying to demand that a sport or a business do anything or not do anything. Who the hell does he think he is? Let competitive market put them out of business. It is clearly not a political issue and we the people are supposed to have the power. Leaches in Washington do not dictate to us how to run our lives or business.
I am officially boycotting the entirety of the NFL payoffs in protest. All of my favorite teams are in, but I’m done with the greed it’s just a game, And yes it’s not the end of the world.
It’s very clear, the NFL for the sake of money has blown up the people who watch the games, the fans. They didn’t have to do this, but they did. We’ll see what the response is.
F@#%&@ PEACOCK. And the NFL.
Total BOGUS move to get NFL fans to buy YET another streaming platform. Not at my house. You SUCK.
The networks and cable company’s screw the people that made them great
Ummm. I assume he will be going after UFC to be fair and balanced? Boxing?
Good to see Congress is focused on important issues like entertainment while accomplishing nothing else. Lol. Having said that, typical of Goodell gouging fans once again to enrich his billionaire buddies. Get ready folks, pay per view NFL Football is close behind. You’ll be paying for every telecast before too long. No thanks. I’ll pass on this game.
They should put all the games on regular channels. NO BLACKOUTS.
The networks and cable company’s screw the people that made them great
I said I hope their peckers fall off and they get constipation. Wife said that was too harsh ‘ but agreed to severe acne.
I am just totally disgusted with the money grubbing NFL! I have stuck to it as a fan for many years but I will not blackmailed by anyone for any reason. Once again, for thirteen pieces of silver one of my personal pleasures has ended.
No other team has done this I hope the se teams and there fans show there anger .We have bad weather have to stay home and we watch the football games except this game we were all set and it disappeared we seen the stadium and the frozen grass when it was time for the game it was gone .We had to hear from our neighbor what happened ,how cheap can the NFL get . I pay over $220.a month for Fios and we are on a set income so now we have to pay for football don’t you make enough money NFL what a cheap shot .
Watched it on a Mexican channel, so losers nbc and peacock hahaha!!!
I agree with the congressman. Roger Goodell already makes 63.9 million in yearly salary and now he’s getting richer off of pay for view games. If nobody would watch any of the first week NFL games next season, it would send a message to Goodell what would happen if he keeps getting richer off of making fans pay for pay for view games. Then maybe he’d realize that the fans are what is important and not his wallet.
FUCK the NFL NBC and Roger Goodell
Nobody needs to be watching this BULLSHIT
This was a sh*t on your neighborhood move.
The NFL must believe that now that Taylor Swift is associated with them, they only need UPPER CLASS money
It’s official the NFL is the No-freeloaders league First they priced me out of the stadium and now it’s out of my home Remember when great quarterbacks made good money putting their bodies at risk Now mediocre quarterbacks make generational wealth in one season and if they get hit it’s a penalty
We Google the scores and plays. We don’t need no stinkin peacock. Hope they go broke
Stay strong everyone dont give in. Support your local bars if you can’t do without viewing.
The NFL already screws the fans by putting games on ESPN and Prime and fans still pay so, why not try Peacock? I am not saying it is right, it isn’t, but that is what our Capitalist society is all about. It is about making money and finding new ways to make more. You can never make enough money.
This is straight BS! Trying to force people to stream a certain channel, I already paid for channels I do not watch just to have regular cable going to take America’s game and that playoff time Force us to stream a channel we do not even watch just to watch what a football game come on America..
Co-McAst thru their product called X.finity streams and OWNS all of
N:B:C that owns pee.koc that streams thru X.finity that’s OWNED by Co-McAst
I am personally disappointed in the NFL for putting a NFL PLAYOFF GAME ON A NETWORK THAT MOST PEOPLE DON’T GET I’m not a Kansas City fan or Miami fan but I am a fan of FOOTBALL I live in a very rural area and it’s not even a option for me and I was disappointed to think that The NFL WOULD MAKE FANS OF THE TEAMS THAT PLAYED ON PEACOCK BUY THAT CHANNEL JUST FOR THAT ONE AND ONLY GAME how disappointing 😞
With taxes and fees it cost me a whole $6.41 a month to get Peacock and we watched the game on the laptop while watching the Hawkeye women play on Fox through YouTube TV at $78. I subscribe to it for other shows as well. What I don’t pay is over $150 a month to get Direct TV, Mediacom or any other expensive method of getting my service on top of my internet service fee and having to add on other subscriptions while being locked into a contract. I can shut off a streaming service for a few months and then turn it back on. I can record shows by adding them to my library to watch later. I can watch my local channels via antennae if necessary, although I prefer YouTube TV.
Did not give in. Boycott buying.
If you have a Fire Stick you could watch it FREE on Peacock or the NFL Network, they both showed it.
Mr Ryan,
How about cleaning up your own backyard before starting on others!
For years, the Yankees & Mets broadcasted all televised games on network TV. When their ownership decided to create their own, pay to watch, TV stations YES & SNY your NY representatives remained quiet. They broadcast the majority of their games on those pay to play networks. How about doing something about that?
Where was all this outrage when MNF went from free to ESPN?? It’s about money y’all. Wake up and quit trying to hang into the nostalgia of what the NFL was.
What a bunch of whiners! Nothing is free in life and never will be. For years people have paid for cable, satellite, and NFL Sunday ticket. Playoff games and regular season are on ESPN, and more non antenna channels. I don’t subscribe to anything that gives me ESPN. I’m still living. So get over it and grow up.
How you fix it people is just stop watching it all together.