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Millions of eyes were on Netflix Friday night as Mike Tyson fought Jake Paul. KFAN host Dan Barreiro believes the NFL has to be terrified after what he saw.
A reported 60 million viewers tuned into the broadcast that was mired with technical difficulties. During his Sunday Sermons show, Barrerio called the broadcast an “utter and abject disaster.”
“Despite that buffering signal being on my screen over and over again, I still stayed with it,” he said, as he pounded the table, saying he was duped by the offering. “Occasionally, when it would stop reloading, it would take me back to about an hour and a half before the fight. And then I’d have to manually attempt to fast-forward it closer to the place where it had paused before.”
Netflix is scheduled to broadcast a pair of Christmas Day games from the NFL next month, with some arguing that the trial run of Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul showing the streaming giant isn’t ready for massive live audiences.
Dan Barrerio is in that camp.
“It was even worse than some of us might have hoped. Aren’t the Christmas games, at least a couple of the Christmas games for the NFL on Netflix? They’ve got to be a DEFCON 1 regarding the technological issues. A number of people I know couldn’t even — would click on it, and they couldn’t even actually get to the broadcast. Not to mention, by the way, the production values regarding the broadcast itself. The broadcasters? Awful, wretched.”
Netflix is scheduled to broadcast games in Pittsburgh, as the Steelers face the Kansas City Chiefs, and in Houston with the Texans hosting the Baltimore Ravens.
