NFL launches NFL+ streaming service

Yahoo Finance’s Josh Schafer joins the Live show to break down the NFL’s new streaming service, NFL+.

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- Well, have you heard of Disney+? Get ready for NFL-- everything's a plus.

- Yes, we have.

- Everything is plus. Everyone's doing-- well, anyway, the National Football League, you get the idea here.

They're going to have their own streaming service apparently starting today for $5 a month. Fans will get every single preseason game and some in-market and prime time games during the season. For more on this, let's bring in Yahoo Finance's Josh Shafer. So give us the details on exactly what NFL Plus is. It's not Sunday ticket, right?

JOSH SHAFER: Right, it's not Sunday Ticket.

- Yeah.

JOSH SHAFER: So teh easiest way to explain this is to use a market. We're in New York. We can use New York.

The way it's going to work is what you get is you get your in-market games on Sunday. So here, that's the Jets and the Giants, right? And then there's normally those big national games like a CBS 4:30 game, where it's Steelers-Chiefs or something. You'd get that game as well.

You get the National games, and then you get your in-market games. The key here is it's only phone and tablet. So you're not really paying to watch it on your TV.

It's more if you're someone that's out and about moving around. We were talking before the break. I used to use it a lot when it was on-- this is the same product that was on Yahoo Sports before.

I used it a decent amount. For Sundays when you kind of-- for one of those slots, you're not sitting in front of the TV all the time. You can take it. You can go do your grocery shopping or whatever you normally do on Sunday and still get to watch the game. So I would kind of--

- Grocery shopping instead of watching the game?

- Yeah, who's doing that?

- Josh isn't doing that. Yeah.

JOSH SHAFER: It's eight hours. It's a long time--

- You're, like, ramming into people's ankles with the shopping carts while you're watching the--

JOSH SHAFER: Depends on how my fantasy team's doing.

- --Patriots sling it.

- I mean, that's a good point, though, because we heard this morning, and we're like, well, can't you just get-- I mean, somebody said what?

- Just get an antenna. You can just get an antenna on your TV. But again, it's not for TV.

- But it is kind of tapping into an additional market. And I guess that's your point, that you actually think this could really be a good thing for the NFL.

JOSH SHAFER: Yeah, well, I think it's a good thing for the NFL because it's the start of NFL Plus, right? Where does that go? It's going to go further than here, of course.

This is the NFL getting into streaming, and this is how the NFL normally goes about getting into products and anything new. Think of how the NFL did crypto sponsorships. In the beginning, teams couldn't do individual deals.

They sort of feel it out and then grow. That's always the NFL's strategy. There is a bite size, try-it-out NFL Plus, and it will almost certainly get bigger.

- Quickly, yes or no. I don't think I've signing up for this.

- But you know what? I watch a lot of games on my tablet.

JOSH SHAFER: $30 for the whole season right now. It's on sale.

- I'm a Jets fan, so I don't need to watch football at all. Yahoo Finance's Josh Shafer, thanks so much.