U.S. President Donald Trump recently criticized the NFL for broadcasting games on multiple different streaming services. While Trump's comments aligned with the frustrations of many football fans, the league shared a response to the criticism on Friday.
Hans Schroeder, who is the Executive Vice President of Media Distribution for the NFL, disagreed with the 47th President's comments entirely, according to Stephen Holder of ESPN. Schroeder argues that the league's strategy to broadcast games on different streaming services creates a “fan-friendly” situation that allows individuals to tune in to nearly every game across the league.
“We love our model,” said Schroeder. “We think we have the most fan-friendly model there is of any sport or entertainment as far as distribution… We think broadcast [networks] have been an incredible home. And, now, we also know fans are increasingly spending their time on other platforms as well.
“They tune into broadcasts for the NFL, and that's where we want to be,” continued Schroeder. “But we also want to be on these platforms with a limited amount of our games, where we know our NFL fans are already as well.”
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NFL games can be viewed on several streaming services, with some of them featuring on certain days or Holidays. Those streaming services include YouTube TV (Sunday Ticket), ESPN+ (Monday Night Football), Amazon Prime Video (Thursday Night Football), Peacock (NBC games), Paramount+ (CBS games), and Netflix (Christmas Games).
That's not even including NFL+, which airs local and prime-time games, or Fubo and Hulu+, offering as an alternate service to network channels. The options appear to be endless, and the league seemingly believes this is the best option to provide a way for fans to watch as many games as possible.
However, it's becoming rather expensive for fans. The average individual spent between $750 and over $1,500 to watch games across each streaming service and network for the 2025-26 season. For comparison's sake, 10 years ago, DirecTV customers were paying just $350 to $360 to watch every game on the NFL Sunday Ticket.
U. S. President Donald Trump recently criticized the NFL for broadcasting games on multiple different streaming services. While Trump's comments aligned with the frustrations of many football fans, the league shared a response to the criticism on Friday.