{"id":265972,"date":"2025-11-06T06:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265972\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:51:14","slug":"nfl-legend-jj-watt-doesnt-hold-back-on-espn-youtube-tv-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265972\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Legend JJ Watt Doesn\u2019t Hold Back on ESPN, YouTube TV Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

YouTube TV and Disney-owned ESPN<\/a> are still locked in a contract standoff, leaving millions of Americans without access to their favorite sports.<\/p>\n

On Saturday morning, YouTube TV costumers were unable to access any ESPN or ABC channels on their accounts. This blackout affected broadcasts of ESPN’s “College GameDay” and several highly-anticipated college football matchups.<\/p>\n

The standoff is still unresolved. As a result, ESPN’s broadcast of “Monday Night Football” was blacked out for YouTube TV costumers as well.<\/p>\n

During an appearance with “The Pat McAfee Show” on Wednesday, three-time NFL<\/a> Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt ranted about these frustrating circumstances.<\/p>\n

“It’s football. We need it,” Watt said. “And I’m not entering my information on another frickin’ website, and I’m not getting a confirmation code sent to my email, clicking it and coming back and putting it in. I’m not doing it. I’m not doing it. I did it once. I have some sort of subscription. I have no clue what it is because I can only watch frickin’ half the content apparently. Or it’s replayed content. It’s [expletive]. Figure it out.”<\/p>\n

“When that [QR code] pops up, I get hot,” Watt continued. “… I’m trying to watch my guys. Like, I played for the Cardinals. I wanted to watch the game on Monday night.”<\/p>\n

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Millions of people, including Watt, were unable to watch the Cardinals take down the Dallas Cowboys with a 27-17 final score at Arlington’s AT&T Stadium on Monday night. <\/p>\n

On Tuesday night, YouTube TV customers missed out on ESPN’s broadcast of the first College Football Playoff rankings show of the season.<\/p>\n

\"J.J.<\/p>\n

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It’s uncertain whether the standoff will be over by the time the ESPN’s “College GameDay” crew takes the desk in Lubbock on Saturday morning, previewing a highly-anticipated college football matchup between the No. 8 BYU Cougars and No. 9 Texas Tech Red Raiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube TV and Disney-owned ESPN are still locked in a contract standoff, leaving millions of Americans without access…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,794,14141,593,85,115292],"class_list":{"0":"post-265972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-j-j-watt","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-youtube-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}