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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.waspie (UK) said:Join the club kmorris. And come over to UKPatriots.com and moan with the rest of us. Until we can get Sunday Ticket on Sky, or the NFL decide to stream games on the internet, you're pretty much resticted to what Sky and Five will show us.
If you have a friend in the US with decent broadband and Sunday Ticket, you could fork out $199 for a Slingbox and piggyback off them.
But we're not doing too badly this year - TV Games in the UK
7-8 games in the regular season is a whole lot better than the years when we rarely, if ever, saw a Pats game live.
There will be a bunch of us in Bodeans next Sunday for the AFC East double header if you're close enough to London to get there.
...And don't patronise European fans Joker. I've followed the NFL for 25 years - back in the days when the only live game we ever saw was the Super Bowl. Same is true for most of the 20+ UK Fans coming over to Boston for Thanksgiving weekend. and just for the record; I'm a huge Lance Armstrong fan - under my Patriots long sleeve, I'm wearing a Nike Oregon Square Armstrong special edition watch. Moreover I'm hoping that Landis clears his name too.
The National Football League said on Thursday it will stream a full season of live games over the Internet to gridiron fans outside of North America.
In partnership with Yahoo, NFL Game Pass will allow fans from abroad to watch nearly every NFL game starting Sunday for $24.99 per week or $249.99 for the entire 17-week season.
The new service marks the league's first effort to deliver a full slate of live games online, following similar Web offerings from Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association.
"We believe that the Internet has matured to a certain point that it really is an efficient distribution mechanism," said Brian Rolapp, the NFL's vice president of media strategy.
The NFL continues to seek ways to increase the game's popularity internationally, but Rolapp said the intention of Game Pass is to allow an existing fan base living around the world to follow their favorite local teams.
"This is not priced for mass consumer adoption. This is very targeted for an avid NFL fan," he said.
Yahoo has experience streaming video highlights from the 2006 World Cup for FIFA and National Hockey League playoff games to out-of-market fans in the United States.
Certain NFL games will be blacked out in certain markets under the League Pass if they overlap with a scheduled television broadcast of a game in that region.
Yahoo said the agreement with the NFL was exclusive, but would not disclose the financial terms of the deal.
Story Copyright © 2006 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
OldEnglandPatriot said:That's amazing... and about time too. i just wish it were available here in the States. A dish is really not a practical option in my building, so UK fans can now potentially see more NFL than US residents who have cable.
On that note, any Cablevision customers like me might be interested to know that I emailed an executive who said 'no comment' when asked by the press a few weeks ago if Cablevision would be getting NFL Network. She replied saying talks were ongoing and that she was hopeful of reaching an agreement.
kmorrisuk said:Hi everyone ive found a website that says they supply links to the games on matchday if anyone is interested heres a link
http://www.asiaplate.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=06f72b40f377527bdafe09e6daa683a0
betterthanthealternative said:I saw the first Super Bowl win in the UK, live, in the living room of a neighbor of a friend, finishing at 4AM. They opened up their house for me, gave me kitchen priveleges, and went upstairs to bed.
betterthanthealternative said:I saw the first Super Bowl win in the UK, live, in the living room of a neighbor of a friend, finishing at 4AM. They opened up their house for me, gave me kitchen priveleges, and went upstairs to bed.
OldEnglandPatriot said:I watched Superbowl 39 at my then girlfriend's mother's house while they slept. I sank a number of beers, and during the fourth quarter I somehow let an entire bottle tip from my lap all over the antique sofa (couch). Ten seconds later my girlfriend came down to see how it was going, so I had to sit in a puddle of beer trying not to let her see what I had just done...