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DAVID BLOOM: Yo, D to the F! So, it looks like while we were busy kvetching over the fight between Warner Bros. Discovery and Comcast over a $2.5 billion package of NBA games, Netflix slipped in and secured ... two NFL games on Christmas! It'll be a very nice payday for the league and its players, though the mid-week matches will seriously complicate scheduling for the teams involved. But this feels big because it's Netflix getting a little taste of that sweet, sweet NFL tune-in audience action. The Big Red N already proclaimed during Upfronts this past week that its ad-supported tier now has 40 million subscribers (about a third more than Peacock). This surely only boosts that further. NFL media and business chief Brian Rolapp had this to say on CNBC the other day:
