The Fan Tax is what it costs to legally stream every game of your NFL team's season the way most fans do it — keep the big live-TV bundle all season and add the exclusive-game services, out of market, no tricks. Ranked below for all 32 teams, alongside the à-la-carte alternative and what the same season costs with subscribe/cancel timing. Formerly the 2026 NFL Streaming Cost Report.
Costs are out-of-market streaming. Bundle is the YouTube TV path; À la carte is single-network apps (FOX One, Paramount+, Peacock, ESPN Unlimited) plus Sling Blue for NFL Network. A team's Fan Tax — and its rank — is the bundle path, the default fan's setup; the à-la-carte column can run cheaper, but assembling six per-network apps correctly is its own research project. Ties share a rank (shown as T-) because many teams land on identical bundle pricing. HuddleMaxx savings is calculated against the bundle path. Tap any column to sort; tap a row for the team's full schedule.
| Team | BundleYTTV + Prime + ST | À la cartesingle-network apps | With HuddleMaxx2026 optimized | You Savevs bundle path |
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Every service that carries an NFL game in 2026, ranked by all-season subscribe cost. Tap any column to sort. Live TV bundles are listed first — they each carry most of the season — followed by single-network direct services.
| Service | Monthlylist price | Season Cost7 months held | NFL Gamesit carries |
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The Fan Tax Index is free to cite, embed, and republish with attribution to HuddleMaxx. Numbers update as prices and broadcast assignments change.
Drops the top-10 ranking into any article; it stays current on its own.
The full 32-team table, ranked and tie-aware, ready for your own charts.
⬇ CSV — Fan Tax Index 2026
⬇ JSON — full dataset
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What the Fan Tax ("subscribe to everything") assumes. The season baseline models the default fan: keep the big live-TV bundle (YouTube TV) all season, add the services with exclusive games (Prime Video, Netflix, Peacock where applicable), and add NFL Sunday Ticket if you're out of market. We publish the à-la-carte alternative alongside it — buying each network's standalone app — which can be cheaper, but correctly mapping six or seven apps to the right games is already the research problem this site exists to solve.
Sunday Ticket pricing (2026). YouTube sells Sunday Ticket at three prices: $240 for first-time buyers (same price standalone or bundled with YouTube TV), $378 for returning buyers who keep a YouTube TV base plan active all season, and $480 for returning buyers without YouTube TV. Our published figures assume a first-time buyer, consistent with how we treat free trials as available. The planner never combines the $378 bundled price with a mid-season YouTube TV cancel — that combination isn't purchasable.
What we don't assume. Promotional rates that expire before you'd act on them (e.g., YouTube TV's $54.99 first-year rate ends Aug 26, 2026 — before any NFL plan starts its YouTube TV window), and games whose networks aren't announced yet, which are priced when broadcasters confirm them. No NFL+ in baselines (mobile-only — fails the TV-viewing constraint), no antenna in out-of-market figures. Figures recompute from the live schedule and the verified streaming catalog; this page states its build date above.
Optimized ("With HuddleMaxx"). Same games, same coverage — each service starts the week it's first needed and ends the week it isn't, free trials placed where they cover the most games (each works once per account), overlapping services collapsed to whichever single subscription carries the month. Rank minus optimized equals the You Save column exactly.