One month ago, Netflix was on most sports fans’ minds when their glitchy, buffering mess of a stream marred the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson boxing match. It was a bad showing, but making it more ominous was that the streamer was set to air a pair of NFL games 40 days later.
Those two games are now finished, and we can officially say Netflix’s reputation for live streaming has emerged unscathed, for the most part.
There were some complaints on social media about the picture quality and an awkward start with a muted microphone, but nothing approached the torrent of rage that hit the company during the Paul-Tyson fight, which made seemingly every user endure regular freezes throughout the main card. The glitches were arguably a bigger story than the rather sad fight at the center of the festivities, in which Paul defeated the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion by unanimous decision.
Netflix apparently learned its …