SKY SPORTS WILL continue to broadcast NFL fixtures in Ireland and the UK for at least another five years.
The broadcaster, a division of Comcast which has long-standing agreements with the NFL in the US, announced the extension of the deal today and celebrated a 25-year partnership with the mainstay of American sport.
The new NFL season will begin on 10 September despite the Covid-19 crisis and Sky will rebrand channel 407 in its honour from 3 September. Sky Sports NFL will broadcast every Thursday and Monday Night Football fixture and viewers can find the RedZone option there during the busy Sunday night schedule.
“Sky Sports has been a fantastic broadcast partner for a quarter of a century,” said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in today’s statement.
“This new five-year agreement and the launch of a dedicated Sky Sports NFL channel will undoubtedly continue our rapid growth in the UK and Ireland. We are excited that our expanded partnership with Sky will provide even more NFL content to our millions of UK and Irish fans.”
Good to know as redzone being free is the best way to spend a Sunday evening but do we really think the nfl will have a full season with the way things are going , a match day roster has 53 players and maybe another 25 coaches/officials and maybe another 10 to 15 on the reserve squad, can all those people really follow guidelines to keep safe and keep a multi billion dollar league going for 17 weeks plus the playoffs
I just cant see it going past week 4 at best as the collage season is falling apart
@Colm Connolly: a bubble is the only way to go
@eoin carroll: do you think 3,200 people are all willing to enter a buble in Disneyland for 5months away from family and friends, it’s not going to happen recovery time after games is very different than basketball, the current basketball bubble is tearing at the seems , the players are only allowed 4at a time into the gym at there hotels , there having parties and inviting people from outside the bubble and even going for food cause they dont like what the nba are providing
NFL will go ahead by hook or by crook. The NFL owns a day of the week in America and no season would have major political connotations for Trump. America “needs” the NFL, so there will be a season.