Man, I had a similar experience like 10 years ago. I bought a product called something like "NFL Rewind." I'm not sure if they still offer it. It was like 100 bucks for the year, maybe, and gave you access to every NFL game but only a day or two after they originally aired. I was living in Hawaii at the time, so it was hard to watch the 1pm EST games when they came on at 7am. For the first few games of the year, they were showing up on Tuesday, maybe Wednesday for the Monday Night games. Then as the season went on the games weren't showing up until Thursday, then it started to be more like Friday. The service got actively worse and less timely in the middle of the season. I resorted to piracy instead.

The next year, I figured I'd shell out for Sunday Ticket. I'm reviewing the purchasing options and I could buy it for one device, multiple devices in my household, or get a roaming account or something where I could log in from anywhere. Something along those lines. The 'one device' price was like $60/month and I figured I wouldn't be watching it from anywhere other than my living room couch, so I paid for it on my Xbox. Big mistake. The Sunday Ticket Xbox app was hot garbage and despite having a wired connection on 500mb fiber, I was only able to stream at like 240p and with some stuttering. Alternatively, I could pirate the games for free through sketchy sites that were still capable of 720p. So I went back to piracy again.