Beyoncé supplied extra pleasure than both recreation throughout Netflix’s NFL debut on Christmas Day.
Driving into her halftime look on a white horse, the 32-time Grammy winner rocked her hometown Houston crowd with a virtually 13-minute efficiency on Wednesday.
She shocked followers by bringing out Shaboozey to carry out “Sweet Honey Buckiin’,” and Submit Malone joined her for “Levii’s Jeans.”
Beyonce and Blue Ivy carry out through the halftime present for the sport between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium on December 25, 2024 in Houston, Texas.
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The motion on the sphere didn’t stay as much as expectations because the NFL showcased 4 of the AFC’s prime 5 groups.
Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce uncovered a glitch in Pittsburgh’s protection throughout Kansas Metropolis’s 29-10 rout within the first recreation.
The published itself went off simply high-quality, rapidly changing into the second-most widespread stay title on Netflix to this point, in keeping with NFL Media.
Lamar Jackson and the Ravens led C.J. Stroud and the Texans 17-2 at halftime earlier than Beyoncé stole the present. Baltimore completed off the 31-2 victory with Jackson resting many of the fourth quarter.
Mariah Carey opened the soccer doubleheader with a taped efficiency of “All I Want for Christmas is You” after which the two-time defending Tremendous Bowl champion Chiefs trounced the Steelers to clinch the No. 1 seed within the AFC.
There have been no indicators of any main streaming points through the recreation after Netflix skilled minor blunders initially of the pregame present. The published opened with roughly 10 seconds of silence as a result of it appeared studio host Kay Adams’ microphone wasn’t turned on.
Beyoncé’s stay efficiency at NRG Stadium was purported to be the most important check for the streaming large and it appeared to go off with no hitch.
Beyonce performs through the halftime present for the sport between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium on Dec. 25, 2024, in Houston, Texas.
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Mahomes threw for 320 yards and three touchdowns and Kelce had eight catches for 84 yards and one rating because the Chiefs (15-1) earned a first-round bye and home-field benefit all through the AFC playoffs. The Steelers (10-6) have misplaced three straight video games and will need to accept a wild-card spot.
Jackson tossed two landing passes and ran for a rating and Derrick Henry had 147 yards speeding and one TD to assist the Ravens (11-5) transfer into first place within the AFC North, one recreation forward of Pittsburgh.
Netflix agreed to a three-year contract in Might to broadcast Christmas Day video games. The NFL is anticipated to present the streaming service one in every of its greatest days for the reason that web site launched in 1998.
Netflix’s 282.3 million subscribers in additional than 190 international locations may stream the video games, marking the primary time one outlet distributed an NFL recreation globally. Netflix had the video games obtainable in 5 languages — English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German.
Netflix had issues streaming the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul battle on Nov. 14. The bout peaked at 65 million concurrent streams, together with 38 million concurrent streams in the USA. In accordance with the web site Down Detector, practically 85,000 viewers logged issues with outages or streaming main as much as and through the battle.
In accordance with NFL Media, viewers in all 50 states tuned in inside minutes of the pregame present going stay and viewers from practically 200 international locations watched the primary recreation. Earlier than the Ravens-Texans kicked off, Netflix reported that it eclipsed its peak concurrent viewers of any Christmas up to now 4 years.
The NFL was taking part in its first video games on a Wednesday for the reason that Steelers and Ravens have been pressured to play on Dec. 2, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The one different time the league performed on a Wednesday since 1948 was in 2012 when the Giants and Cowboys met within the season opener.
The NFL performed its first video games on Christmas Day in 1971 with a pair of divisional playoff video games. The league averted taking part in on Dec. 25 from 1972-88 and shifted its full slate of video games to Saturday if Christmas fell on a Sunday. Since 1989, there have been 30 video games on Christmas, by no means greater than three on that day. However the NFL went out of its method to schedule two video games on Wednesday to accommodate its $150 million cope with Netflix.
This wasn’t the primary time NFL video games aired solely on a streaming service. The league’s Thursday night time video games are of their third season on Amazon Prime Video, Peacock streamed the Packers-Eagles recreation in São Paulo, Brazil, in Week 1 and Prime Video will stream a wild-card recreation. Additionally, the “Sunday Ticket” package deal moved to YouTube TV final 12 months.
The most important viewers for a streamed-exclusive NFL recreation was 23 million on Peacock for final season’s AFC wild-card recreation between the Miami Dolphins and the Chiefs.
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