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No matter how you feel about United States President Donald Trump, NFL fans are likely to agree with him on one major issue. Trump is sick of the league moving games off of television and onto various streaming services.
In a recent sit-down interview, Trump expressed his displeasure with the league and explained how it could well be “killing the golden goose” by making it more difficult for fans to watch games.
“It’s tough,” Trump said during an interview on Full Measure that aired Sunday. “You got people that love football. They’re great people. They don’t make enough money to go and pay this. It’s tough. And they could be killing the golden goose.”
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While Trump expressed his frustration, he refused to go much further, stating that a recent Department of Justice investigation into the league does not guarantee that things will change.
“I don’t know, but I don’t like it,” Trump said of any next steps. “They’re making a lot of money. They could make a little bit less. They could let the people see. You have people that live for Sunday. They can’t think about anything else, and then all of a sudden, they’re gonna have to pay $1,000 a game? It’s crazy, so I’m not happy about it.”
Sure, $1,000 a game is hyperbolic. But it does make a point.
If fans wanted to legally stream every game of the 2025 NFL season, they would have had to pay more than $1,000 in order to do so.
The majority of games remain on over-the-air television networks. But a significant number have been moved to cable channels such as ESPN or the NFL Network, with additional games being moved to streaming services Amazon Prime, Netflix, YouTube, and Peacock in recent years.
“There’s something very sad when they take football away from many, many people,” Trump said. “Very sad. I don’t like it.”
Nobody likes it. And it’s one of the few issues that seemingly everybody is on the same page about.