OT (Football related) NFL Gamepass apparently available in US now

Sorry for a post that has nothing to do with filing briefs or extradition treaties but it appears that, as of right now, you can sign up for NFL Gamepass for $100 in the US without having to use a VPN.

Not clear what the $99 option entails or if this is just a goof up on their part but it was worth mentioning.

Now that the OT stuff is out of the way - HOW ABOUT THE GAMS ON THAT JUDGE JUDY EH?!

I've always found it pretty weird that the absolute best way to watch NFL games at home, means that you have to live outside the US.

If only there was as good way to watch NCAA outside the europe. Right now we have that god aweful ESPN player which has answered the age old question "what is more annoying than long commercial breaks in football" by just removing the commercials and showing a black screen for those minutes. It makes commercial breakes feel 10 times longer.

Game pass gives us a NFL logo saying it will be back soon. It's put me down when trying to stay awake at 2am a few times. It is way better than our tv broadcasts here in Scotland though.

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Looks like a re-brand of NFL Rewind to replay past games except it includes certain "out of market" pre-season games live. Instead of three pricing tiers of pre-recorded games (one team, all teams, or all teams + playoffs) starting at $24.99 in the past, it's now $99.

NFL Rewind was a US service with no live games, now renamed to GamePass to mislead people into subscribing at 4x the price over the next weeks due to excitement.

We need a new name for it. NFL RewindPass? so we don't confuse with the international, live version for a similar price.

PatSunday said:

WARNING!

Looks like a re-brand of NFL Rewind to replay past games except it includes certain "out of market" pre-season games live. Instead of three pricing tiers of pre-recorded games (one team, all teams, or all teams + playoffs) starting at $24.99 in the past, it's now $99.

NFL Rewind was a US service with no live games, now renamed to GamePass to mislead people into subscribing at 4x the price over the next weeks due to excitement.

We need a new name for it. NFL RewindPass? so we don't confuse with the international, live version for a similar price.

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Oh **** - really? That sucks if so - I can't find any information it's really weird. Maybe it's just a transition period for the site before they move to regular gamepass.

I mean if I've got to fire up my VPN first to start the new gamepass then well, whatever. I was just hoping that the world would start coming to its senses and I not have to fight to give the ****ing NFL, of all pos organizations, my $$ so I can watch my team.

Is VPN the misdirect IP so it looks like you're from somewhere else?

Froob said:

Is VPN the misdirect IP so it looks like you're from somewhere else?

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No, that doesn't really work anymore last time I tried it.

The past 2 seasons I would just use a VPN that had endpoints in other countries - I favored lesser known ones so I wouldn't have to worry about the NFL shutting them down.

Then I'd initiate your connection over the VPN to Gamepass, get the game to start going and then turn off the VPN and I'd get crystal clear picture and I'd do the little PiP one where I'd have another game going in the little window on the top right (usually the Jets)

It costs a lot of money, though. 4 months of VPN is $40 and then gamepass I'd do the first week 7 day trial and then buy 1 game at a time for whatever stupid price it was because we tend to have a lot of nationally televised games. But it still ends up being a solid chunk of change, unfortunately.

https://www.nfl.com/gamepass

1) FakePass, that should be the name! On-demand games, including archives, but no live games except "pre-season out-of-market games". Re-branded NFL Rewind but $99 instead of $25.

2) I heard for the international (live) GamePass, you sign up for one from a cheap country (in other words, not UK) -- the lowest pice is likely about $100, not sure, but you get live games, too. After that, on game days, you can use most any free VPN just to login to GamePass to view list of games and disconnect the VPN; you can watch the actual games on your connection without lag. I have never tried it.

fnordcircle said:

No, that doesn't really work anymore last time I tried it.

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How did you hear about it? Did you visit the site by accident? There's now a ton of articles about the new gamepass from 4 hours ago but you posted earlier than that.

Marinlik said:

I've always found it pretty weird that the absolute best way to watch NFL games at home, means that you have to live outside the US.

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It's not weird. The current NFL contracts show that NFL is big money here in the US, and it'd make no sense from the NFL's point of view to undermine that big money by providing a way to bypass all the businesses that are paying the big money to have the NFL rights. Outside the US there just isn't the same level of interest so the NFL uses different ways to try to capture revenue.

The NFL is one of the few things keeping many people on cable TV and/or satellite TV. It's going to be interesting to see how that all unwinds.

PatSunday said:

How did you hear about it? Did you visit the site by accident? There's now a ton of articles about the new gamepass from 4 hours ago but you posted earlier than that.

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I'm a big deal on the internet, man. When I post about something people stand up and listen.

(Someone posted about it on reddit)