What is NFL Sunday Ticket?
First off, let’s talk about what NFL Sunday Ticket actually is. It first debuted in 1994, and DIRECTV had the rights to it the entire time until the 2023 season. It’s a premium sports package that broadcasts NFL games in every market. However, it does not include local or nationally broadcast NFL games.
Because the NFL has deals with NBC, FOX, and CBS across the country for games, NFL Sunday Ticket has to be more expensive so that they don’t cut out their partners. This will explain why the NFL Sunday Ticket is so expensive.
In addition to getting every single NFL game this season, you will also get unlimited simultaneous streams at home for NFL Sunday Ticket.
How much is NFL Sunday Ticket?
Here’s how the pricing works out for NFL Sunday Ticket with YouTube TV this year:
NFL Sunday Ticket Season Pass: $378 or $31.50 permonth for 12 months
NFL Sunday Ticket Season Pass with RedZone: $420 or $35 permonth for 12 months
NFL Sunday Ticket Month-to-Month: $115 permonth
NFL Sunday Ticket Month-to-Month with RedZone: $125 per month
NFL Sunday Ticket Season Pass: $480 or $40 per month for 12 months
NFL Sunday Ticket Season Pass with RedZone: $522 or $43.50 per month for 12 months
NFL Sunday Ticket Month-to-Month: $145 per month
NFL Sunday Ticket Month-to-Month with RedZone: $155 per month
Why is it so much more expensive than when DIRECTV had the NFL Sunday Ticket?
When DIRECTV had the NFL Sunday Ticket, it cost $294 for the season. Now we see that it costs $349 for the season with YouTube TV or $449 without. It sounds like it’s more expensive, but with DIRECTV, you had to have a satellite, which was definitely way more than $72.99. So, all things considered, it’s really not that much more expensive.
But part of the reason for this is that YouTube is paying the NFL $2 billion per year for the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket. And obviously, Google needs to recoup that cost somehow. DIRECTV was paying $1.5 billion pear year and losing $800 million per year for NFL Sunday Ticket.
YouTube has said that they will be experimenting with different pricing plans and options in the future. In fact, they just announced a new student plan (pricing has not yet been announced), which is just the start of that.
Does NFL Sunday Ticket include local games?
NFL Sunday Ticket does not include local games nor nationally broadcast games, which is why the bundle with YouTube TV is a pretty good option. That is because you will get local and nationally broadcast games with YouTube TV. And you can also record them to watch later with unlimited cloud DVR included.
YouTube TV does have ESPN, NBC, FOX, and CBS, which covers all of the channels that local and national games are part of. It also has the NFL Network, which has the occasional NFL game – typically around Christmas and New Year’s. Some Thursday night games are on Prime Video, which is not part of YouTube TV.
So the bottom line here is, if you want local games too, then you’re going to want to get YouTube TV plus NFL Sunday Ticket.
Does YouTube TV offer multiview for NFL Sunday Ticket?
YouTube TV actually announced Multiview earlier this year and began testing it during the NCAA March Madness. This was in preparation for NFL Sunday Ticket.
NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube will include live chat
YouTube’s popular “catch up with key plays” feature will be available too
YouTube TV has a pretty popular feature that allows you to catch up with key plays for different games in different sports. And that feature will be available on NFL Sunday Ticket on both YouTube and YouTube TV.
This will kind of speed up the game to the part that you started watching. So you can ensure that you do not miss any big plays or anything else important that happened in the game.
