Amazon Prime misses play in Kansas City Chiefs Black Friday game after ‘admin error’ as angry NFL fans call it ‘rigged’
When Amazon Prime Video cameras failed to capture a play during their Black Friday game, NFL fans were incensed.
The streaming service’s brief outage was attributed to a “administrative error” made by the authorities.
On Black Friday, Amazon was airing the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Las Vegas Raiders game.
Reports of disruptions appear to have affected the services shortly before kickoff at 3 p.m. ET.
Additionally, there was a contentious scene during the first quarter.
Following an Arrowhead Stadium punt play, Prime Video cut to commercial.
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However, the Chiefs were in a stronger position when the broadcast came back.
It was clarified that during the commercial break, the punt play was repeated.
The Chiefs, not the Raiders, were given the penalty by the refs.
However, they overturned the ruling, and the officials’ “administrative error” was clarified during the show.
Once the penalty was correctly assessed, the punt play resumed.
As a result, Kansas City started their subsequent drive in a better field position.
A supporter commented, “Since when during commercial break do we change penalties because it s an administrative error but Chiefs fans will sit here and tell you it s not rigged.”
Another wrote: “The referees are bailing out the chiefs early.
“Punt redo due to ‘administrative error’ of the ref calling the penalty on the Chiefs instead of Raiders.”
“There seem to be a lot of administrative errors in the favor of the Chiefs,” a third person stated.
Around 2:00 PM ET, DownDetectors reported a surge in outage reports.
Thursday Night Football in the NFL is often televised by the network.
However, they were given their own unique holiday location this week, and the Thanksgiving games on Thursday were shown on free-to-air television.
Regular TNF broadcasts from Amazon typically go off without a hitch.
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However, one fan commented, “The Raiders at Chiefs stream on Amazon Prime is terrible.” The quality of the pictures is awful.
“The hard laughter is not being handled by the cameras. and failed to catch a kickoff.
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