Article 66XQZ Apple’s rumored NFL Sunday Ticket deal might not happen this year

Apple’s rumored NFL Sunday Ticket deal might not happen this year

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1449488456.0.jpg Seems like we'll be waiting a little bit longer to hear about the next home for NFL Sunday Ticket. | Photo by Christopher Mast / Getty Images

Apple's long-rumored deal for NFL Sunday Ticket may not happen this year after all. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said this summer that the NFL expected to pick where the lucrative broadcasting rights would land by the fall. But with less than a week until winter and a little over two weeks left in the year, it seems increasingly unlikely that an NFL Sunday Ticket deal will be done before 2023.

A new report from Sportico has some updates about the status of the next deal. Negotiations are at a very critical point" for the NFL, Goodell apparently said Wednesday, though he also noted that our decisions are not based on timelines." Apple is still expected to get the rights, but one of its requests would be a giant ask: the company...

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