NFL Sunday Ticket Discount: How Deal Seekers Can Save the Most in 2024
NFL Sunday Ticket is something approaching a must-have for any serious football fan, but it comes with an eye-watering price tag. That is, unless your enterprising spirit compels you to seek out some ways of reducing, or even eliminating, that cost. That's where this article comes in: From phone and internet plans that include NFL Sunday Ticket as a free perk, to bundle savings with YouTube TV, we'll show you the best ways to save.
Consider this to be the article equivalent of William "Refrigerator" Perry — not in the sense that we're good at football (we're writers on the internet, which is almost certainly mutually exclusive) but in the sense that these deals are pretty cool, like a refrigerator might — nay, should — be. (Also, William Perry was pretty cool.)
Top NFL Sunday Ticket Discount
NFL Sunday Ticket from YouTubeStore: Verizon
Price: Free w/ Verizon FiOS 1 Gig or 2 Gig Internet Plans
You don't get much better than free, so if the combination of high-speed internet and Sunday football appeals, getting NFL Sunday Ticket as part of your Verizon FIOS plan is the way to go. That's a $449 savings compared to paying for Sunday Ticket separately. Plus, ordering online gets you a free professional setup, another $99 saved. It's for new customers only, and can't be combined with an existing NFL Sunday Ticket subscription. You must activate and maintain your plan though February 28, 2025.
Other Top Streaming Offers
Paramount+ Streaming ServiceStore: Paramount+
Price: $2.50/mo for 12 months
A Paramount+ subscription doesn't just get you Cheers and Frasier on-demand, even though logically speaking, that's all anyone should use it for. It'll also let you stream any NFL games on CBS.
How to Save on NFL Sunday Ticket
Verizon
Verizon has historically offered a variety of ways to save on NFL Sunday Ticket, although obviously not all offers will be active all the time. Through internet and phone plans, we've seen everything from $100 off a subscription to — like the offer at the top of this article — offering the whole shebang for free. Some things to look out for:
- Internet Plan Perk: You might see a discount on Sunday Ticket as a perk for having a Verizon home internet plan — we've seen a subscription for free with either a 5G Home Plus Internet plan or a FIOS 1 or 2 Gig plan; other times, we've seen a $100 discount on Sunday Ticket with the 5G Home Plus plan. Yes, that's at least $65 a month for the internet service, but also potentially over $400 in savings on the NFL Sunday Ticket subscription.
- Smartphone Bonus: An example of this discount is available right now: Buy an Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max phone for $10 per month, with an Unlimited Ultimate or postpaid Unlimited Plus plan, and you get NFL Sunday Ticket From YouTube thrown in for free. Obviously, the phones, prices, and other details may change, but expect the broad strokes to remain the same — the free Sunday Ticket subscription will be offered with a premium flagship phone with an Unlimited plan.
YouTube TV
Scoring your NFL Sunday Ticket subscription through YouTube TV right now will save you $85. Look at their sign-up page for the details — you subscribe to both YouTube TV and NFL Sunday Ticket, and over the course of your first four combined payments of $146.49 per month, you get that $85 savings. (Then, it's $72.99 per month for YouTube TV.) Because it's a combined subscription, if you cancel YouTube TV, you'll lose access to NFL Sunday Ticket. And then you'll be stuck watching the XFL, wondering where it all went wrong.
Bonus: If you're a student, you can verify your status using SheerID and get the subscription for $199 a year.
NFL Sunday Ticket FAQs
What is NFL Sunday Ticket?
It would be strange that you'd be this far into this article without knowing, but it's an odd world we inhabit, so we'll explain. NFL Sunday Ticket is an out-of-market sports package that lets you stream any NFL regular season games that aren't available on local affiliates. It's available exclusively through YouTube TV, or if you'd prefer it as a standalone subscription, through YouTube's Primetime Channels service. In layman's terms: A streaming service that streams football. That was easy.
Is There an NFL Sunday Ticket Free Trial?
There doesn't seem to be! The closest option we could find is signing up for a free YouTube TV 10-day trial, which will grant you access to the NFL Network, which admittedly isn't NFL Sunday Ticket, but it's within spitting distance. (Although that's a good way to make a mess of your TV.) How to get this 10-day trial? We'll quote the priceless Julie Ramhold's guide to watching the NFL online for free:
- Navigate to the YouTube TV homepage.
- Click "Try It Free" in the upper right corner.
- Choose the Google account you want to use and sign in.
- You'll then see a box that says "Try a free preview first?" where you can select "Preview for 20 min" or go directly to setting up your free trial.
- If you're sold, go ahead and click "Start Free Trial".
- You'll then see a screen that allows you to choose your plan — either the Base Plan or Base Plan + NFL Sunday Ticket.
- Choose whichever plan you want, but note that NFL Network should be available with both.
- Complete the checkout process.
- Start your streaming 10-day trial.
Click through to that article for more details on that, and other ways to potentially stream NFL games for free. But none of them are NFL Sunday Ticket trials. Alas.
How Much is NFL Sunday Ticket?
Its regular price, as a standalone channel on YouTube, is $479 per year. There are plenty of ways to avoid paying that full price, as we've discussed and will continue to do, but absent any of those special offers, you'll pay just shy of $500 for a year's subscription. Which we'll acknowledge is a lot, but please keep in mind that Usher doesn't come cheap. Packaged with YouTube TV, its regular price (without the ongoing discount) is four monthly payments of $167.74, then $72.99 per month thereafter.
Can You Get NFL Sunday Ticket With YouTube TV?
Basically exclusively so! As of last year, your only options to subscribe to the service are as a package with YouTube TV, or as a standalone channel on YouTube. As we noted above, the package deal currently saves you $85. That package deal discount (when it's available — which isn't always) is the best deal you're likely to find without involving another contract (with Verizon or similar).
How Can You Get NFL Sunday Ticket as a Primetime Channel on YouTube?
You give YouTube your money and watch some football. We'd love to be able to provide some super secret DealNews trick here, but it's really pretty straightforward. You point your peepers at "NFL Sunday Ticket only" and hit "Get It Now". The only potential complication is if you're reading this as you're trying to purchase a subscription on a Smart TV. In which case, open up that there YouTube app, and go to Movies and Shows. There, under Primetime Channels, select NFL Sunday Ticket, and then refer back to the first sentence of this paragraph.
How Much is NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube Going to Cost?
We've talked about this a lot, so let's do a comprehensive summary with a handy bullet list:
YouTube TV package: Regularly $167.74 per month for four months, then $72.99 per month thereafter. Currently, you save $85 across those first four months.
Standalone: $479 a year. Or, if you're a student, a measly $199.
Can You Get NFL Sunday Ticket Without YouTube TV?
You can, in the sense that you can get it as a standalone channel without a YouTube TV subscription. But even that standalone subscription will have to go through YouTube, since — as of 2023 — it's a YouTube exclusive, so you either make your peace with that, or you find yourself, once more, stuck watching the XFL, a single tear rolling down your cheek as you think about all the decisions that have led you to this point in your life.
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