NFL fans couldn’t help but poke fun at Jerry Jones after the Dallas Cowboys owner appeared to be introduced to Netflix for the first time Friday night.
Ahead of the highly-anticipated fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul at AT&T Stadium – home of the Cowboys – Jones sat down with Netflix’s broadcast team to discuss the watershed event.
“It’s the damndest thing,” he said in regards to the 70,000 fans expected to shuffle into ‘Jerry World’ to watch Paul vs. Tyson. “It’s amazing but wonderful Mike Tyson can draw them like this. Netflix and the NFL are really looking for the future in a big way.
”They’re going for 40 million people, the most they’ve ever tried [to stream]. My hats off to them. Frankly, one of the greatest ideas of a promotion I’ve ever seen.”
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Jones’ focus quickly shifted to potential future partnerships between the NFL and the streaming giant. “Worldwide coverage with Netflix,” Jones said. “We’re all being introduced to Netflix. We’re so excited in the NFL about Netflix becoming a huge part of our future. This tonight gives us a chance to go to forty, fifty million people and do it from right here.”
Taking to social media, droves of viewers hilariously pointed out that Jones seemingly believed everybody just found out about the existence of Netflix. “Jerry Jones is very excited that he and the world is being introduced to this new little company called #netflix,” Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy wrote, with another X user adding: “There is no shot Jerry Jones knew what Netflix was before today.”
The bizarre discovery by Jones was quickly overshadowed, however, by technical issues that hampered the live stream during his segment. Midway through the billionaire’s response, his microphone stopped working – leading Cowboys legend Michael Irvin to try and swap mics with him.
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Jerry Jones marveled at the spectacle that was Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul at AT&T Stadium (
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Viewers at home additionally complained that their Netflix streams were experiencing significant buffering and lagging ahead of the co-main event between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano. The broadcast problems were met with a wave of backlash from fans, who insisted that the NFL should have second thoughts about partnering with the streaming platform in the future.
“Jerry Jones trying to tell us how excited he is about Netflix coming to the NFL as his mic dies and we all see the wheel of death is hilarious….,” one X user wrote, with another adding: Jerry Jones saying Netflix is a huge part of the NFL’s future into a mic that doesn’t work and then less than a minute later the stream goes down.”
A third chimed in, “Man, this is a mess for Netflix. They can’t handle the streaming demand. Jerry Jones’s mic doesn’t work. I’m having to constantly log back in and restart it.”
On December 25, Netflix is set to livestream two Christmas day matchups featuring the Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens facing off against the Houston Texans. In an official statement announcing the partnership, Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria said: “Last year, we decided to take a big bet on live – tapping into massive fandoms across comedy, reality TV, sports, and more.
“There are no live annual events, sports or otherwise, that compare with the audiences NFL football attracts. We’re so excited that the NFL’s Christmas Day games will be only on Netflix.”
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