NFL+ goes down for nearly an hour during Week 1 Sunday slate
- On Sunday, NFL+ suffered major technical issues during Week 1, leaving subscribers unable to access live games and NFL RedZone throughout the 1 p.m. window.
- Technical difficulties struck as eight of the day's 13 games kicked off, forcing subscribers to stare at error messages instead of key moments like Deshaun Watson's interception and Josh Allen's first touchdown in Detroit.
- NFL+ acknowledged the outage on social media at 1:19 p.m., directing affected customers to file support tickets. Service was restored by 2:14 p.m., though the league had not confirmed any refunds by evening.
- Fans demanded compensation as the incident mirrored a 2022 DirecTV Sunday Ticket outage, when the provider admitted it "missed an opportunity to deliver" and issued roughly $16 reimbursements per subscriber.
- This marks the second consecutive year a major sports league's flagship streaming product crashed on Opening Day, following MLB's 2025 failure. The premium NFL+ tier costs $99 for the season.
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NFL+ goes down for nearly an hour during Week 1 Sunday slate
NFL+ subscribers ran into trouble during the early window of Week 1 on Sunday, with the league’s streaming service going down in the middle of the season’s opening slate. At 1:19 p.m. ET, the NFL+ account on X acknowledged the outage, telling subscribers the league was working on a fix and directing anyone affected to…
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