Chris Russo Rejects NFL Sunday Ticket’s Switch To YouTube After 29 Years On Direct TV: ‘All They Want To Do Is Lose Money!’
- Sunday ticket prices currently range from $249 to $489 depending on variables
- Russo’s main problem with the change is that it’s “so damn hard” to use
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American sports personality Chris Russo has expressed his displeasure with NFL Sunday Ticket just a few weeks before the start of the regular season.
After a 29-year run on DirectTV, the NFL’s package, which allows viewers to watch out-of-market games, is moving to YouTube TV and YouTube TV Primetime as part of a reported seven-year, $2 billion deal.
During Tuesday’s addition to his show “Mad Dog Unleashed,” Russo expressed his anger after encountering several issues while trying to sign up for the service.
‘It’s impossible!’ said the broadcaster. “All they want is to lose money! That’s all they want to do. Losing money with the service and losing money with Fatso’s choices – that’s all I care about and they won’t let me do that.
“So the NFL and YouTube – whether it’s YouTube TV or regular YouTube – who knows what it is! The only reason I’m putting it on YouTube is to put on an old David Crosby interview…”
Chris Russo has expressed his displeasure with the move of the NFL Sunday Ticket to YouTube TV
The league’s out-of-market TV package has been available on Direct TV for the past 29 years
“In this era, in 2023, if you’re not tech-savvy with your televisions and all your ‘devices,’ you’re done — done!”
And Russo wasn’t done with that, continuing his tirade, “They’re making it so damn hard. Can’t you just make it easy?
“All the good things I did in church at nine will be gone by one, because I’m going to curse a storm and throw things all over the house!”
Sunday Ticket prices currently range from $249-$489 and viewers can watch up to four matches at a time.
“We’re currently researching that to figure out the right types of packages that would be of interest to users,” Christian Oestlien, YouTube’s vice president of product management, told me earlier. The athletic.
Despite the work YouTube has put in, or the fact that DirectTV’s version of Sunday Ticket repeatedly encountered problems with satellite feeds during bad weather, Russo doesn’t expect much from the new service.
He and the rest of the NFL fans who tune into Sunday Ticket on Sept. 10 will see for themselves whether the change works out for the better or the worse.