Netflix says more than 200 countries tuned into the "Beyoncé Bowl" and its two NFL games. We may just be starting to learn what that ultimately means for the future of television and sports media.

Patrick Mahomes has cleared the air about his less-than-enthusiastic reaction to Netflix’s football-shaped cake during a post-game interview after leading the Kansas City Chiefs to a Christmas Day win over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

If you believe in omens, Netflix appeared to be in for a very long day on Wednesday. As the streaming giant began its NFL pregame show prior to airing the Kansas City Chiefs’ 29-10 blowout over the Pittsburgh Steelers, viewers were welcomed to the broadcast … with immediate audio issues.

Coach Reid’s ready for it. I’ll take it to him,” the Chiefs quarterback said of his head coach, Andy Reid, after declining to take a bite of the cake.

Netflix upped the ante in the biggest of ways with the airing of a live NFL game, none other than a Christmas Day showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Thanks to NFL stars like Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson, Netflix said it enjoyed its "most-watched Christmas day ever" in the U.S.

Netflix’s NFL Christmas Gameday set a new viewership record, drawing 65 million viewers across the United States, according to Nielsen. Chiefs-Steelers and Ravens-Texans averaged more than 24 million viewers each, making them the two most-streamed NFL games in U.S. history, Netflix said.

The Chiefs-Steelers game ... figures include the audience on Netflix, mobile viewership on NFL+ and those who tuned in on CBS stations in Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Baltimore and Houston.

Producer Kristian Day, an Ely native, and director Dylan Sires, a Waterloo native, navigate interviews with Chiefs superfans through an unusual question: “Does America love a bank robber?”

The Kansas City International Airport the Chiefs were set to leave from was ... Outside of work, he's probably binging the latest Netflix documentary, at a yoga studio or enjoying everything ...

Though its viewership took a 2.2 percent tumble in 2024, the NFL's numbers far eclipsed another other programming in U.S. broadcasting -- sports or otherwise.

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images In a season filled with lucky breaks for the Kansas City Chiefs, quarterback Patrick Mahomes received another one on the homefront. Mahomes, 29, revealed his wife, Brittany Mahomes,