Super Bowl champ Steve Beuerlein calls the NFL's costly streaming service requirements for fans 'overkill'

Super Bowl champion Steve Beuerlein said that fans' complaints astir the fig of services the NFL requires to ticker the games are "very legitimate."

Beuerlein, 61, said that helium would decidedly instrumentality the fans' side.

"I deliberation it's a it's a precise morganatic ailment from the fans and I would decidedly instrumentality their side," Beuerlein told Fox News Digital successful a caller interrogation connected behalf of Heartflow.

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Steve Beuerlein speaks astatine the JESPYS awards astatine JSerra High School successful San Juan Capistrano, California, connected May 29, 2025. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images)

The erstwhile Pro Bowl backmost besides talked astir however costly it is for fans to be NFL games, calling the summons prices exorbitant.

"It's astir unaffordable for fans to spell to a crippled and instrumentality their household to a crippled these days successful astir scenarios. There are immoderate owners that are doing a truly bully occupation of getting originative and making tickets disposable for those that that different would not beryllium capable to spend to go, but the outgo is truthful exorbitant these days," Beuerlein said.

Beuerlein lamented that fans can’t conscionable ticker each the games connected TV astatine location for free, calling the NFL’s enlargement to streaming services overkill.

"And past present to truly marque it that overmuch much costly to beryllium astatine location and effort to get sum and ticker a crippled connected television. It astir is simply a small spot of overkill if you inquire me. I recognize the statement from the fans' perspective," helium said.

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Jacksonville Jaguars backmost Steve Beuerlein plays against the Carolina Panthers successful the 1995 Hall of Fame Game astatine Fawcett Stadium successful Canton, Ohio, connected July 29, 1995. (Michael C. Hebert/USA TODAY NETWORK)

Beuerlein said helium understands it’s a business, but is sympathetic toward the fans.

"These owners are ever trying to find caller ways to make gross streams due to the fact that salaries are going up for definite and it seems similar it's connected a never-ending cycle, but I decidedly americium sympathetic to the fans," Beuerlein said.

NFL fans who privation entree to each crippled request to acquisition YouTube TV for "NFL Sunday Ticket" successful summation to the costly subscriptions for each the streaming services the NFL uses to broadcast games.

Those streaming services are Amazon Prime, Peacock and Netflix. The operation of those respective services is implicit $1,500 a year, and that doesn’t see the fees that travel with basal cablegram packages oregon high-speed Wi-Fi needed to accommodate the platforms.

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Steve Beuerlein waves astatine a Netflix lawsuit for "America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys" astatine Egyptian Theatre successful Los Angeles, California, connected Aug. 11, 2025. (Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

The Justice Department reportedly opened an probe into the NFL implicit its usage of streaming services.

A Fox News poll in March indicated that 72% of sports fans deliberation large sporting events should enactment escaped connected broadcast TV amid reports that the NFL is considering allowing teams to merchantability the rights to preseason games to streaming services.

FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty credited FCC Chairman Brendan Carr with identifying that "public involvement is nary longer being served, and the request for authorities immunity is little clear" astatine a caller quality conference.

"Indeed, much than 8,000 radical person submitted comments (to) the FCC, with 98% of those comments expressing vexation with the streaming migration inclination and their anticipation that broadcast volition stay the preeminent level for watching their favourite team," she said.

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Carolina Panthers backmost Steve Beuerlein throws the shot against the Atlanta Falcons successful a 1997 play crippled astatine the Georgia Dome successful Atlanta, Georgia, connected Sept. 7, 1997. (RVR Photos/USA TODAY Sports)

"Getting broadcast argumentation close includes empowering broadcasters to respond to this wide felt user request and guarantee broadcasters’ continued quality to service section communities not lone done sports but different programming, arsenic well."

Beuerlein played 14 seasons successful the NFL. He played for the then-Los Angeles Raiders, Dallas Cowboys, Arizona Cardinals, Jacksonville Jaguars, Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos. He was a backup backmost erstwhile the Cowboys won the Super Bowl successful 1992.

He made the Pro Bowl with the Panthers successful 1999. In 147 games (102 starts), helium completed 56.9% of passes for 24,046 yards, with 147 touchdowns and 112 interceptions.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos and Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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