For nearly 30 years, NFL fans have needed to turn to DirecTV to watch out-of-market games given the satellite provider’s exclusive deal with the league. And with all that experience hosting NFL Sunday Ticket, you’d think DirecTV would be able to handle the task of … well … showing games at the start of the season.
Think again. It’s an issue seemingly every year.
In what is expected to be DirecTV’s final year as the exclusive home of Sunday Ticket, fans were having trouble accessing the early Week 1 games with the app either showing log-in errors or blacking out every viewing option.
DirecTV, of course, had an entire offseason to make its tech functional, but the company knows that the package is leaving at the end of the season. And NFL fans are already feeling the impact of that neglect.
Amazon and Apple are seen as the early frontrunners to land Sunday Ticket next season, but as long as fans are stuck with DirecTV, they don’t seem happy with the unreliable service.
This was how Twitter reacted
I cannot stand Direct TV. I am so excited for this garbage company to lose the Sunday Ticket
— paul (@PaulSilanoJr) September 11, 2022
NFL Sunday Ticket charged me but is completely down. Can’t even log in. Absolutely ridiculous. Direct tv is the worst.
— Jesse Crawford (@_JesseCrawford) September 11, 2022
@DIRECTV is it just me or the NFL Sunday Ticket app is broken rn !?!? Won’t let me login even if I reset email and password… pic.twitter.com/pySqs6QQ9O
— Miami Heatle (@HeatleMiami) September 11, 2022
Nfl Sunday ticket websites may be the worst developed websites I’ve ever tried to use
— Kelsey K (@Killzmagillz) September 11, 2022
Why NFL Sunday Ticket down ?? Literally 30 minutes until kickoff ugh !! Fix it @DIRECTV
— 𝘫 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𓅔 (@visualsofjay) September 11, 2022
The day that @DIRECTV no longer has the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket will be a great day for society.
— Joey (@joeyk_15) September 11, 2022
All I want for Christmas is a class action lawsuit against @nfl and @directv.
Sunday Ticket should not broken week 1 every single year.
— The Far Yeast (@TheFarYeast) September 11, 2022
It isn't football season without NFL Sunday Ticket being absolutely unusable the first week. It's unbelievable how it is a terrible experience every year.
— Seth Parrish (@SethParrish) September 11, 2022
The joys of Sunday Ticket. Brought to you by @DIRECTV pic.twitter.com/iYe6WT4ck9
— Seçilenin Kılıçi (@olan_ci) September 11, 2022
It’s a Week 1 tradition that fans will be thrilled to see come to an end.
