And we can't watch the RedZone channel live. We watch our home team the entire way through, thus missing all the other 1:00 games. The only way to watch them is on Tuesday when the 30-minute condensed games are shown.
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And we can't watch the RedZone channel live. We watch our home team the entire way through, thus missing all the other 1:00 games. The only way to watch them is on Tuesday when the 30-minute condensed games are shown.
And the NFL is also like Apple, it's the best product out there.
Baseball? Snooze. Soccer? Get real. Basketball? Game turns into free-throw contest at end. Boring. Hockey? Used to be fun, but the goals are down and it's more like soccer - get a 2-1 lead, game is over. Nascar? Nope.
NFL has it's own share of issues, like what exactly is a catch? - but since they only play 16 games, each game is very important and an event to itself.
Fantasy Football used to be just for nerds in the 1980s. Then the NFL wised up and knew that Fantasy Football is a great way for fans to get excited about other teams than just in their home market. Now, many fans want to see many more games, even dumb matchups like Tampa Bay vs Jacksonville, because they have a player in the game. There are games I would never ever watch if it weren't for fantasy football.
there a rules set between the NFL and broadcast companies. local games are ALWAYS blacked out. BUT that is moot anyway. if you read closely, only out of market preseason games are live, in market preseason and all 256 games are listed as on demand. which most likely means after they air. if they were live i highly doubt they would have only used the word live with the out of market preseason.
I thought I heard the owners decided to get rid of blackouts this year.
Edit: Yep
http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/23/media/nfl-blackout-rule/index.html
Edit: Yep
http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/23/media/nfl-blackout-rule/index.html
I still stand by what I said when it comes to people who move being in the minority compared to people who live in a town with a team. Same goes for out of market areas. I had friends and roommates in college who were from the Middle of Nowhere, NE and other places and many said that college ball is much bigger there and they either watch NFL casually or pick a popular team. One of my roommates picked his team when he was a kid—the Cowboys—because they were popular when he was a kid. Other places like Texas—even though they have two NFL teams—high school football out in the country can be even bigger than that. It's just basic math that cities and metro aras would have more fans than outlying areas. As for areas without NFL teams, I guess I assumed those areas comprised some sort of market for the nearest teams, whichever they might be. I've never lived outside a market zone, and even though I live dead-center 125 miles from Kansas City and 125 miles from St. Louis, I believe we're considered in-market for both zones. I do get out—I just don't have time to root for so many times spread out across the country. My weekends are full enough as it is!
I signed up for the service on Aug 2, 2015 and could not find anything about how to connect to the Apple TV. I just received an email from them as a response to by complaint that there is no information to connect with the Apple TV, in their email they said that it will only work on the XBOX devices for TV. It appears that they must have worked out a deal with Microsoft to cut apple out of this service. They indicated that they prefer people to watch replays on phones or tablets and not on TVs.
I wanted this service so that I could watch games I missed after getting home from a trip, but to watch it only on a PC, tablet or a phone, is nothing more than a joke.
I found out that I have to contact my credit card company to have them cancel the payment for this because they lied about their 7-day trial, they claimed in the trial sign up that it could be canceled from the account after login by using the Account Settings, they said that in the account settings the account could be canceled at any time. The problem is they have not created the Account Settings yet so there is no way to cancel a subscription other than to notify the credit card company.
Once again the NFL has figured out another way to shaft their fans.
I wanted this service so that I could watch games I missed after getting home from a trip, but to watch it only on a PC, tablet or a phone, is nothing more than a joke.
I found out that I have to contact my credit card company to have them cancel the payment for this because they lied about their 7-day trial, they claimed in the trial sign up that it could be canceled from the account after login by using the Account Settings, they said that in the account settings the account could be canceled at any time. The problem is they have not created the Account Settings yet so there is no way to cancel a subscription other than to notify the credit card company.
Once again the NFL has figured out another way to shaft their fans.