Amazon Video to carry docuseries following NFL’s Arizona Cardinals

The National Football League is very selective with its partners who carry content, usually sticking with familiar faces whenever a new deal is being shopped. So it’s surprising to see that the league has reached a deal with Amazon for the company to put a new docuseries on its video streaming service later this year. Fans of the NFL and especially the Arizona Cardinals will get an inside look at what teams go through every week in preparation for games as they race to the playoffs.

The docuseries, called All or Nothing, showcases the Arizona Cardinals during the 2015 season in their run to the NFC Championship game. In that game, the Cardinals fell just short of the Super Bowl by losing 49-15 to the Carolina Panthers. Players, coaches, and front office executives will all make appearances on All of Nothing.

Amazon Video will begin streaming the eight-part docuseries this summer.

What this series between the NFL and Amazon indicates is that there is a strong possibility the league’s streaming rights package goes to Jeff Bezos cash cow. Amazon is among the large field of bidders trying to land Thursday Night Football streaming rights. The toughest bidder to beat is likely Verizon as they hold exclusive streaming rights for mobile devices and want to sign a new deal with more content.

Like with All or Nothing, Amazon could leverage other NFL content as being streamed on its hardware ecosystem including the Fire TV and Fire tablets.

NFL Films Announces Groundbreaking New Series

‘All or Nothing’ on Amazon Video

First Production to Exclusively Capture the Behind-the-Scenes Story of a Single NFL Team Over the course of an Entire Season

For its inaugural season, the landmark docu-series on Amazon Video presents an in-depth account of the 2015 Arizona Cardinals’ March to the NFC Championship Game

March 21, 2016: NFL Films, the most honored filmmaker in sports television history, today announced the creation of a new series, All or Nothing, premiering exclusively on Amazon Video. Drafting off NFL Films’ huge success in the sports reality genre, All or Nothing will offer fans a glimpse into the week-to-week drama that unfolds within the lives of players, coaches and owners of an NFL franchise during the course of the regular season.

The inaugural season of All or Nothing will feature the 2015 Arizona Cardinals team that captured the NFC West title and advanced to the NFC Championship Game. The Amazon Unscripted Series will premiere on Amazon Video later this summer.

“All or Nothing will deliver the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at America’s most popular sports and entertainment media property – the NFL’s regular season – and we couldn’t have asked for a better franchise for our inaugural season than the Arizona Cardinals,” said Jordan Levin, Chief Content Officer, NFL Media. ”We’re thrilled to team up with Amazon on this new series, providing fans even more ways to engage with award-winning NFL programming over a variety of digital channels.”

“We take tremendous pride in the dedicated and talented people that make up our organization and welcomed this opportunity to showcase them,” said Michael Bidwill, President, Arizona Cardinals. “This unprecedented look into what it takes to compete in the National Football League is something that we think viewers will find fascinating. We all know the quality of work NFL Films does and are just as excited to work with Amazon to find such an innovative way to distribute this series.”

“This show is going to give customers a front row seat to some of the most exciting, never before seen, football action,” said Michael Paull, Vice President, Digital Video, Amazon. “There is a thrilling story behind how these athletes compete on the field, and we are very excited to work with the NFL to deliver amazing programming for our customers.”

Premiering this summer on Amazon Video, all eight, hour-long episodes of All or Nothing: A Season with the Arizona Cardinals will be available to all Amazon customers via the Amazon Video app for TVs, connected devices including Fire TV, and mobile devices or online. For a list of all Amazon Video compatible devices, visit http://ift.tt/1ORnstM.

In All or Nothing: A Season with the Arizona Cardinals, NFL Films takes viewers inside the locker room, on the sidelines, and to the homes of Cardinals players and team personnel for an extraordinary view into the NFL’s regular season, one that would ultimately result in the best regular season in franchise history. The inaugural installment of the series picks up with the Cardinals following the season-ending injury to quarterback Carson Palmer in 2014. It follows the team’s brain trust of Bidwill, general manager Steve Keim and head coach Bruce Arians starting with the 2015 NFL Draft and continuing throughout the season. Along the way the series chronicles the on and off-field events in the lives of Arizona players, including Pro Bowlers Palmer, wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, cornerback Patrick Peterson and safety Tyrann Mathieu.

Over the course of the NFL’s 2015 regular season, the NFL Films crew was embedded with the Arizona Cardinals at the team headquarters in Tempe, at games both at University of Phoenix Stadium and on the road, and in the lives of players, coaches, and team executives away from the field.

Produced by NFL Films, All or Nothing: A Season with the Arizona Cardinals is executive produced by Jordan Levin, Howard Katz, Ross Ketover, and Pat Kelleher.

NFL Films – winner of 121 Sports Emmy Awards – remains a gold standard in sports television, providing unprecedented access to and legendary storytelling about the sport of professional football. NFL Films is a part of NFL Media, the owned and operated media division of the National Football League which is comprised of NFL Network, NFL Films, NFL.com, NFL Now, NFL Mobile from Verizon and NFL RedZone.

NFL Films is a key supplier of NFL Network’s programming, including the three-time Emmy-nominated series A Football Life, offering untold stories into the lives of some the NFL’s most recognizable icons, and The Timeline, chronicling seminal moments that formed the NFL’s storied past, shape the present and, in some cases, set the stage for the future. With more than 100 million feet of film in its library, NFL Films is the historical backbone of NFL Network.

NFL content has never been more popular across the media landscape. According to the Nielsen Company, 199 million people tuned into the 2015 NFL regular season representing 78 percent of all television homes and 67 percent of potential viewers in the U.S. NFL games accounted for the top 25 and 46 of the 50 most-watched TV shows among all programming in 2015.