A deal between the NFL and Apple for Sunday Ticket is reportedly already done. It is just yet to be announced. The news dominated the internet late on Monday and that means it made its way to sports talk radio.
WFAN’s Evan Roberts did not hide his true feelings when Craig Carton shared the news with him.
“That’s terrible,” the Carton & Roberts co-host said simply.
Apple TV+ has come under fire for its Friday Night Baseball presentation. The four games the streaming service has covered has been met with underwhelming reviews. Roberts says it is hard not to consider that when you hear Monday’s news.
“My reaction to it is their coverage of baseball is so God awful. Oh my God! They are going to ruin the greatest invention of mankind, the NFL Sunday Ticket.”
The deal is said to be worth $2.5 billion annually. Many had believed that the NFL would work out a deal to keep Sunday Ticket on DirecTV and that whatever company it struck a deal with for the streaming rights would have to co-exist with the satellite package. That likely isn’t the case.
Evan Roberts says that is not good. He said the sports world already has evidence that when Apple isn’t on its A-game, fans get really unhappy and they have no problem voicing that displeasure.
“Imagine the technical issues we had for a Mets game in Washington, DC in April, okay? Everybody’s freaking out, these technical issues,” he said. “Now imagine that Week 1 of the 2024 NFL season. Twitter will break. The world will come to an end when every NFL fan in America is rioting over Apple screwing up the NFL Sunday Ticket.”
