Eyebrows were raised throughout the sports world when Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria recently acknowledged that the outlet could look to land one of the Sunday afternoon NFL broadcast packages once the league can opt out of existing deals after the 2029 season.

Netflix gave an otherwise slow week of NFL news a kick in the tuchus, thanks to podcast-interview comments from its chief content office Bela Bajaria.

Global streaming giant Netflix is set to bid for rights to Sunday afternoon games from American football’s NFL, one of its senior executives has revealed. Bela Bejaria, chief content officer at Netflix,