'NFL RedZone' Fans Furious Over One Brutal Change to How Games Are Being Shown

Liam McKeone | Sep 14, 2025

The 'RedZone' viewing experience changed on Sunday and fans were furious. / VentItMedia on

Big changes came to NFL RedZone this season in the form of advertisements being shown alongside the games. Fans were not pleased when those ads were played in Week 1. Now the popular program has introduced yet another change for Week 2 and fans are yet again unhappy.

Fans tuning into RedZone in Week 2 were greeted with a pretty jarring change to how the screen is laid out. There is now a red border on each side of the screen with bars that are several inches wide. Previously whatever football game was playing would take up the entirety of the screen, which made for a quality viewing experience.

Here's how that looks:

NFL RedZone fans are in uproar after the service adds a red border around the games. pic.twitter.com/MmKC9FMQAC

— Vent It (@VentItMedia) September 14, 2025

The new red bars are a brutal pivot from that viewing experience and appear to serve no purpose other than to squeeze the football game being played into a smaller space. Fans were furious about it.

So ESPN has added a red frame around the screen on NFL RedZone, while the ESPN App and ESPN Fantasy App both glitch out.

All time performance. pic.twitter.com/Tod9qmF79I

— Jakob Brandenburg (@Jakob_BburgTV) September 14, 2025

That red border is terrible. Just keep everything how it was smfh

— Ganooch (@Ganoochi_) September 14, 2025

Please get rid of these annoying red bars on NFL redzone?#NFLRedZone @NFL @nflnetwork @NFLonCBS @RedZoneChannel @ScottHanson pic.twitter.com/WvQrLPQYwR

— Jason Baxter (@thejasonrbaxter) September 14, 2025

Is this a new RedZone frame? Just casually stealing 3/4 inches off my viewing experience are we? pic.twitter.com/TjTTeHcVso

— Jason Hayes (@JasonHayesNFL) September 14, 2025

Redzone has added two red boxes on the sides of each screen and it genuinley looks terrible

— Terence Holton (@TerenceHolton) September 14, 2025

They better get rid of this in 5 minutes or I’m breaking my tv it’s genuinely so visually impairing

— Charlie Blackmon’s Beard (@GoatCondon) September 14, 2025

RedZone is managing to mess up the easiest of things

— Hunter Tyson is the GOAT (@KingOLandBaby) September 14, 2025

What’s with the sidebars on NFL Redzone? pic.twitter.com/SFzgJvFM5S

— Alec Nolan (@AlecOnFOX7) September 14, 2025

Hey @NFL why the heck are you making NFL Redzone screen smaller with this garbage on the sides? pic.twitter.com/oA96WEzqzN

— America_the_Great🇺🇸 (@Dino0101010) September 14, 2025

Hey @NFL @ScottHanson can we get rid of the Redzone banner and just show the game? pic.twitter.com/QzVXtIFoA0

— RickyBsports (@BsportsRicky) September 14, 2025

They need to remove it! It sucks! That's 4 inches of my TV screen you're crowding. 😡🤬🤬

— Jennifer (@ukfan1231) September 14, 2025

Another day of criticism from football fans for NFL RedZone.

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