Netflix breaks through to the other side with Christmas Day NFL coverage

Now that the proverbial dust has settled on Netflix's coverage of the NFL for the first time, the question is how well the streamer would do and whether there would be any of the wretched issues that occurred during Netflix's showing of the Jake Paul and Mike Tyson fight. During that event, bandwidth problems caused viewers to miss some of the action. Would the same happen on Christmas Day?

The answer, for the most part, was no. There were a couple of times when there was a dead microphone, but that can happen with any streamer or network. The problem also did not come from buffering. It was simply a tech issue. (Just as the Pittsburgh Steelers simply got beat down by the Kansas City Chiefs.)

Netflix and the NFL will have a partnership for a couple of more seasons, at least, on Christmas Day games. One might also safely assume that this is a try-out for more games in the future. And who knows? Maybe Netflix will take over the NFL Sunday Ticket in many years. YouTubeTV currently holds that right, but money talks, and the NFL is always open to listening to it.

Netflix proves its ready to show live sports events with high-quality NFL Christmas Day game streaming

There is a bit of oddness when pausing a game, though. If you were to go out of the live stream and then go back in, the only obvious option was to pick up where you paused and not go back into wherever the game was. There was an option to go live, but only once you went back into the stream.

Still, the stream was clear and well-filmed. Netflix proved it had fixed the problems with Paul-Tyson and was worthy of showing future NFL games. The streaming giant is getting more into live sporting events (it will be the home of WWE soon), and had it failed to prove it could pull off live events then people and leagues might give up on the streamer quickly.

The smooth way that the Christmas Day games went should only help Netflix entice other sports and leagues to show their product on the streamer. This means if you own Netflix stock then you should hold onto it as it will likely grow. Netflix is already huge, of course, but with more live sports events things will only get better.

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