Got NFL Sunday Ticket with Madden 25 last year. Not very impressed. This new channel sounds even less impressive. Most disappointing thing was how I couldn't watch in-market games. I don't have cable TV because I wouldn't use it. I live in Columbia, MO—a college town of 115,000 in central Missouri—home of the Mizzou Journalism School and a bunch of TV stations, and I can't get a freaking signal for CBS to watch Chiefs games—even with a massive antenna that came in the attic of my new house. I eventually found a workaround. Apparently the Verizon tower I connect to is on the east side of Columbia, closer to St. Louis (out of market), so if I connected to a game on my iPhone using LTE and then used control center to quickly switch WIFI back on so it doesn't use my data, then I could get around it. But then I had to stream to the Apple TV, so I'd also have to turn Airplay back on when reconnecting to WIFI and sometimes that would cause the game to stop playing which would require me to juggle everything again just to get it to work. It was always a big hassle. I wish OTA TV would just die already—or at least have an internet option for streaming. If they needed to lock things down, you could get a code mailed to your address annually that would allow you to login to local TV websites and allow you to stream content from anywhere. All these stupid in-market rules and blackouts are stupid. I have no idea how I'm considered "in-market" for games that happen halfway across the state. We don't even share TV stations with KC. But I suppose on the upside it might prevent me from getting my hopes up like last season when I witnessed one of the greatest playoff game collapses of my lifetime. Being a sports fan from KC is agonizing on so many levels.
