NFL Sunday Ticket is no longer worth the price | Bobby Burack

You may also have noticed the price.It is expensive.

And each year, the NFL further reduces the package's value by expanding its national windows.Let us explain.Sunday Ticket does not include nationally televised games or games available in your local market.Subscribers do not receive Thursday Night Football, Sunday Night Football, or Monday Night Football.

Nor does the package include the three or four games available locally across Fox and CBS during the 1 p.m.and 4:25 p.m.

ET windows.For example, viewers in Michigan cannot watch Lions games on Sunday Ticket because those games air locally on Fox or CBS.We agree.The NFL's television schedule is unnecessarily complicated.

And it's getting worse.Streaming service EverPass Media announced it would become the exclusive commercial option for NFL Sunday Ticket starting with the 2026 season.(Aaron M.

Sprecher/Getty Images)RESTAURANT ASSOCIATIONS URGE CONGRESS TO ACT AS NFL SUNDAY TICKET STREAMING SWITCH THREATENS BAR REVENUESNetflix will carry five games this season: 49ers-Rams from Australia in Week 1 on Thursday night, the first Thanksgiving Eve matchup between the Packers and Rams, two Christmas Day games, and an unannounced Saturday game later in the season.Yes, Thanksgiving Eve means the NFL will play on a Wednesday.And because Netflix will air a Thursday night game in Week 1, NBC will move its Patriots-Seahawks season opener also to a Wednesday, Sept.

9, 2026.The NFL will then play four Friday games: Packers-Bears and Bills-Broncos on Netflix, Rams-Seahawks on Fox on Christmas Day, and Broncos-Steelers on Amazon Prime on Black Friday.In total, the NFL will play six games on Wednesdays and Fridays this season, two days it long avoided (in part because of legal restrictions).Further, nine of the league's 18 weeks will include an international game, most of which will air on NFL Network at 9:30 a.m.ET.An ad for NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV is displayed as bar patrons watch the telecast of the game between th...