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Texas A&M football will be featured in a Netflix documentary this summer

The Texas A&M football team will be part of a Netflix docuseries focusing on the 2024 SEC football season

On Wednesday, Netflix announced that they produced an eight-episode docuseries featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the 2024 SEC football season that will air in the Summer of 2025.

While not every team participated in the production, Texas A&M took advantage of the opportunity, and after it airs, we’ll know if it will be a net positive or negative.

In the age of unlimited transfers and unchecked NIL deals, any edge a university can get in recruiting will be explored. Aggie fans already get a glimpse of what goes in the locker room due to their excellent in-season series “The Pulse.”

This series will provide a different perspective and lead to other conferences in future series. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey believes it will be a binge-worthy watch for Netflix subscribers.

“This behind-the-scenes docuseries will bring all the drama and pageantry of Southeastern Conference Football to a worldwide Netflix audience”

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Two former Saints players will be on the Netflix Christmas broadcast

Two former New Orleans Saints players will be part of the star-studded on-air talent group for the Netflix Christmas Day doubleheader:

This year the NFL will be treated to something a little different for the Christmas Day football games. The two games on the day of Christmas will be shown on Netflix in 2024, and with that, they had to form their own broadcast crews made up of a conglomerate of reporters, former players, and pretty much anyone they thought would be a good fit.

With that, the New Orleans Saints had two former players tied into this list, with quarterback Drew Brees and linebacker Manti Te’o joining the 22-person on-air talent crew. While it is unclear what role everyone will be joining in, the group they put together is quite impressive.

The double header will consist of a Noon CT/ 1 p.m. ET game with the Kansas City Chiefs traveling to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers, and then a 3:30 p.m. CT/ 4:30 p.m.. ET game between the Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans at NRG Stadium. We will get to see Drew Brees get back in the booth finally, and a debut for Manti Te’o in the NFL media landscape.

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Former Ravens QB to join Netflix’ studio coverage of NFL Christmas Day doubleheader

Former Ravens QB Robert Griffin III to join Netflix’ studio coverage of the NFL Christmas Day doubleheader the Chiefs-Steelers and Ravens-Texans games

After signing a three-year deal with the league to host two Christmas Day games in 2024 and one game per holiday over the next three years, Netflix is now officially an NFL streaming giant.

According to Front Office Sports, Robert Griffin III will join NFL Network analyst and former Notre Dame star Manti Te’o, ESPN analyst Mina Kimes, and former Saints quarterback Drew Brees as analysts for pre-and post-game shows during the Christmas Day doubleheader. They will handle the pre-game and post-game analysis and downtime between the two games.

Kay Adams, host of FanDuel’s Up & Adams, is expected to lead studio coverage from a set in Los Angeles.

Griffin, who ESPN laid off in a cost-cutting move in August, spent three years with the Ravens, playing in 14 games, logging 288 yards passing, one touchdown, and four interceptions.

Netflix announced the Ravens and Texans will play in a rematch of last season’s AFC divisional round matchup following the Kansas City Chiefs’ massive matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Baltimore defeated Houston twice last season.

The first meeting was a 25-9 Ravens win in the season opener, and the second was a dominant 34-10 win in the AFC Divisional Round game that catapulted Baltimore to the AFC Championship game.

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Drew Brees could be returning to the broadcast booth

Report: Netflix is in conversations to add former Saints quarterback Drew Brees to coverage for their Christmas Day double-header:

Drew Brees has expressed his desire to step back into the broadcast booth. The opportunity appears to be presenting itself. Brees along with NFL Redzone’s Scott Hanson are in conversations with Netflix to be a part of the international broadcast of the streaming platform’s Christmas Day double-header.

Christmas Day has long belonged to the NBA, but the NFL has attempted to stake their claim to the day in recent years. The New Orleans Saints have been a part of that history when Alvin Kamara dropped a gaggle of touchdowns on the Minnesota Vikings.

This year’s matchups pit the Kansas City Chiefs against the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens versus the Houston Texans, both streamed live on Netflix.

As for Brees? The legendary quarterback has been primarily an in-studio analyst for NFL games, but he believes his best usage is in the booth for professional games. Brees told Front Office Sports, “That’s what I feel like I’m most qualified to do. That’s what I feel like I’m most passionate about. And certainly where my knowledge base lies, right?”

Brees getting this opportunity could initiate the comeback he is trying to make.

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Trailer out for ‘Enigma,’ documentary on New York Jets QB Aaron Rodgers

The trailer is out for the Aaron Rodgers documentary on Netflix

Netflix has released he trailer for its documentary on Aaron Rodgers, entitled “Enigma.”

The whole show will be available for viewing on Dec. 17.

The trailer, which lasts a tick more than two minutes offers a compelling look into the complicated world of the New York Jets quarterck.

Netflix released its trailer for a predictably weird three-part documentary about Aaron Rodgers

Who asked for this?

When Netflix greenlit a three-part documentary series about Aaron Rodgers, the streaming giant probably expected to follow Rodgers’ Achilles recovery into a career renaissance at 41 years old with the Jets. Instead, Rodgers has been exceptionally mediocre as the Jets are stumbling towards another wasted season.

That leaves us with a documentary series that nobody really asked for.

On Tuesday, Netflix released its trailer for Rodgers’ documentary, Enigma, which is set to debut on Dec. 17. But if you want to see Rodgers try ayahuasca and act all philosophical in the most Aaron Rodgers of ways, this could be just the documentary for you.

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Texans to receive performance from Beyoncé as a halftime Christmas present

Beyoncé is headed back to Houston for the holidays and the Texans’ game against the Ravens.

Queen Bee takes center stage this holiday season at NRG Stadium.

Superstar singer and 32-time Grammy Awarding-winning entertainer Beyoncé will perform at halftime of the Houston Texans’ Christmas Day game against the Baltimore Ravens, the team and Netflix announced Sunday night.

Houston, which also plays on Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium against the Kansas City Cheifs, returns five days later to participate in one that will be streamed exclusively on Netflix. The Chiefs will open the afternoon with a matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers at noon.

A native of Houston, Beyoncé’s performance will air exclusively on the streaming site as part of the flare. This marks the first time she’s performed at an NFL event since her collaboration in 2016 with Coldplay and Bruno Mars at Super Bowl L in Santa Clara, California.

That performance ended up being one of the most-watched Super Bowl halftime shows, with 115.5 million tuned to see her perform “Formation.”

The concert will also mark the first time she’s performed songs from her Cowboy Carter album, which was nominated for 11 Grammys.

“Your early Christmas wish has been granted as Beyoncé will perform during Netflix’s first-ever NFL Christmas Gameday live on Netflix this December 25,” a statement released by Netflix read. “The performance will take place during the second of Netflix’s two games, as the Houston Texans host the Baltimore Ravens at NRG Stadium at 4:30 PM ET.

This performance in her hometown of Houston, Texas, produced by her company, Parkwood Entertainment and Jesse Collins Entertainment, will be the first live performance of songs from her genre-bending and record-breaking COWBOY CARTER, album. The 11-time Grammy-nominated, juggernaut recently became the most nominated album by a female artist.”

The Netflix Christmas Day games will air on broadcast TV in the competing team cities and be available on U.S. mobile devices with NFL+.

Netflix drew 60 million for Tyson-Paul, which contributed to the buggy broadcast

Netflix apparently drew 60 million for Tyson-Paul, which likely impacted the buggy broadcast.

Netflix on Saturday revealed 60 million households worldwide spent (wasted?) Friday evening watching two annoying windbags pummel each other for money.

Oh yes, the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul “boxing match” apparently drew 60 million for its buggy live broadcast, according to the streaming giant’s Saturday estimate.

Netflix said the broadcast pull had “our buffering systems on the ropes.”

Fans who are worried about watching the NFL this Christmas or WWE Raw in January might be heartened to know the Tyson-Paul clown show drew much more of an audience share than your average football game or wrestling match.

In comparison, Amazon is reportedly averaging 13 million viewers a week for its Thursday night NFL broadcasts, per Front Office Sports. Last Monday’s broadcast of WWE Raw drew a little more than 1.5 million viewers, per Wrestlenomics.

Last Christmas, the NFL brought in an average viewership of 29.2 million for the Kansas City Chiefs-Las Vegas Raiders game, likely heightened by intrigue in Taylor Swift’s attendance.

With the Chiefs playing the Pittsburgh Steelers on one of the Netflix broadcasts and Swift’s attendance a definite possibility, the streamer could be attracting around 30 million viewers for that Christmas broadcast.

While Friday’s Tyson-Paul broadcast had its glaring issues (both in the ring and with the live-streaming), Netflix has time to amend its infrastructure before the holidays and its WWE broadcasts next year.

For bigger events than regular-season NFL games and WWE matches, Netflix might have its hands full with mounting a problem-free broadcast.

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Netflix issues during Mike Tyson-Jake Paul spark series of NFL memes

Netflix’ poor job on Tyson-Paul sparked a series of memes

Call it the Nightmare Before Thanksgiving with the sequel being the Nightmare on Christmas Day.

Netflix broadcast the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight on Nov. 15. Or at least it tried to do so.

Viewers had to feel like they were in a time warp as the picture kept buffering as it would have a few decades ago. It was a bad look for a platform that has NFL games on Christmas Day.

The Internet was faster than Netflix’ technology to poke fun.

Netflix cheekily showing Mike Tyson’s bare butt might have been the only highlight of his Jake Paul fight

Cheeky!

Live events are hard to put on, aren’t they?

We got proof of that in a couple of different ways on Friday night with the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul fight. There were issues for Netflix all night with buffering, and that left fans of the WWE and NFL worried about the streamer’s ability to broadcast their events.

MORE FROM THE FIGHT: 10 celebrities who were there to watch

And then there was that pre-fight interview with Tyson, who finished chatting and walked away with the camera right on him … and there it was! Tyson’s bare butt, for all the world to see (unless you had issues with the broadcast).

We won’t show it here (we’re a family website!), but here you go. That link should help.

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