Beyoncé’s halftime performance the highlight of a lackluster NFL Christmas slate
Beyoncé was more exciting in the game than any other Netflix makes its NFL debut On Christmas Day.
Riding a white horse to halftime, 32 time grammy award winner On Wednesday, she stunned the crowd in her hometown of Houston with a nearly 13-minute performance.
She surprised fans by inviting Shaboozey to perform “Sweet Honey Buckiin'” and Post Malone joined her to perform “Levii’s Jeans.”
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The performance on the field didn’t live up to expectations, with the NFL showcasing four of the AFC’s top five teams.
Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce exposed a hiccup in Pittsburgh’s defense in Kansas City’s 29-10 win in the opener.
According to NFL Media, the show did very well and quickly became the second most popular live show on Netflix to date.
Lamar Jackson and the Ravens led C.J. Stroud and the Texans 17-2 at halftime before Beyoncé stole the show. Baltimore won 31-2, with Jackson sitting out most of the fourth quarter.
Mariah Carey opened the football doubleheader with a recorded rendition of “All I Want for Christmas is You,” followed by the two-time defending Super Bowl champion The Chiefs defeated the Steelers to lock up the No. 1 seed in the AFC.
Netflix had some minor glitches at the start of its pregame show, but there were no signs of any major streaming issues during the game. There was about 10 seconds of silence at the start of the broadcast because studio host Kay Adams’ microphone didn’t appear to be on.
Beyoncé’s live performance at NRG Stadium was supposed to be the streaming giant’s biggest test yet, but the show seemed to go off without a hitch.
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Mahomes passed for 320 yards and three touchdowns, Kelce had eight catches for 84 yards and one score, and the Chiefs (15-1) won the first round of the entire AFC playoffs. Byes and home field advantage. The Steelers (10-6) have lost three straight games and may have to settle for a wild-card berth.
Jackson threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score, and Derrick Henry rushed for 147 yards and a touchdown, helping the Ravens (11-5) move into first place in the AFC North, one game ahead of Pittsburgh. .
Netflix agreed a three-year contract to broadcast the Christmas games in May. The NFL is expected to give the streaming service one of its biggest days since the site launched in 1998.
The game will be available to Netflix’s 282.3 million subscribers in more than 190 countries, marking the first time an NFL game has been distributed globally by a single outlet. Netflix offers the game in five languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German.
Netflix There is a problem streaming media Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul fight On November 14, the highest number of concurrent users in this game reached 65 million, of which 38 million were in the United States. According to the website Down Detector, nearly 85,000 viewers logged outages or streaming issues before and during the game.
According to NFL Media, within minutes of the live broadcast of the pre-game show, viewers in all 50 states across the United States tuned in to watch the live broadcast, and viewers from nearly 200 countries watched the first game. Ahead of the Ravens-Texans game, Netflix reported that the number of concurrent viewers for the game exceeded the highest number of concurrent viewers for any Christmas in the past four years.
The NFL played its first game on Wednesday since the Steelers and Ravens were forced to play on Dec. 2, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The only time the league has played a Wednesday game since 1948 was in 2012, when the Giants and Cowboys met in the season opener.
On Christmas Day 1971, the NFL played its first game of two divisional playoff games. From the 1972-88 season, the league avoided playing games on December 25, moving all games to Saturday if Christmas Day fell on a Sunday. Since 1989, there have been 30 games played over Christmas, but never more than three on the day. But the NFL went to great lengths to schedule two games on Wednesday to fulfill its $150 million deal with Netflix.
This isn’t the first time an NFL game has been aired exclusively on a streaming service. The league’s Thursday night games are in their third season on Amazon Prime Video, with Peacock broadcasting a Week 1 matchup between the Sao Paulo Packers and Eagles in Brazil and Prime Video will broadcast a wild-card game. Additionally, the “Sunday Ticket” package was moved to YouTube TV last year.
The largest audience for an exclusive live NFL game was last season’s AFC wild-card game between the Miami Dolphins and Chiefs, which had 23 million viewers on Peacock.
