NFL Sunday Ticket is a streaming video service that lets football fans watch all the "out-of-market" football games on a given Sunday. These are the NFL games that aren't being shown on your local TV affiliate stations like CBS or Fox.

Get every live game every Sunday with NFL SUNDAY TICKET. With NFL SUNDAY TICKET for out-of-market Sunday afternoon games and DIRECTV Local Channels (CBS, FOX, NBC, NFL Network) for in-market and national NFL games. Select digital-only games and international games excluded.

“You can only get it on YouTube, you can not get it on DirecTV anymore,” NFL Chief Business and Media Officer Brian Rolapp said last week during a conference call. “I think some fans might be confused by that.”

NFL+ gives you access to the NFL RedZone Channel and local and primetime regular and postseason season games. NFL Sunday Ticket allows you to stream all out-of-market games, which is about 200 games during the NFL regular season.

First using the YouTube app on your smart TV or or mobile. Device if you don't see the YouTube app you'll have to download it using the App Store on your. Device.

NFL Sunday Ticket is not an option for DIRECTV STREAM. It is only through YouTube's options.

Since 1994, DirecTV has carried NFL Sunday Ticket, a programming package that lets you watch out-of-market regular season NFL games. In December 2022, Google won the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket, outbidding Amazon and ESPN, and is subscriptions available on its YouTube TV live streaming service and YouTube.

The benefit of NFL Sunday Ticket through YouTube TV is that you'll get every in-market NFL game and most nationally televised matchups in one service. (The main exception is that Thursday Night Football now streams on Amazon Prime Video.)

NFL Sunday Ticket is not an option for DIRECTV STREAM. It is only through YouTube's options.

YouTube DirecTV held the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket from 1994 through 2022. Now, the package has moved to YouTube and YouTube TV. Despite an advertising campaign from DirecTV that implies otherwise, there is only one company that provides Sunday Ticket for residential use.

NFL Sunday Ticket vs. NFL Plus

Beginning with the 2023 NFL season, for residential customers in the United States, NFL Sunday Ticket moved exclusively to YouTube TV, as well as to YouTube's recently-launched Primetime Channels service as a standalone subscription option.