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Best Way to Watch Games this Season??


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So apparently in the time between the end of the last football season, and now, a TON of streaming sites have been taken down. From what I remember most of these idiotic offiicial streaming services that offer NFL games don't ever offer ALL of the games. I remember subscribing to one service on youtube last season that cost hundreds of dollars and it would still constantly tell me games were either blacked out or unavailable, which is totally ridiculous.

Is there any one service that I can watch ALL of the games on?? It gets on my everlasting nerves already that there's so many different streaming sites and they are all expensive as hell. I don't want to take out an entire additional car payment to subscribe to 4 different streaming services to watch all the games. Is there just ONE I can subscribe to?

The most comprehensive thing I have access to now is Sirius XM. It's only 10 ish bucks a month and I can listen to the home or away broadcasts of any game. Only thing is I can't WATCH the games but this seriously comes in handy if I'm out doing something, driving, or can't stay still at the moment to watch the games. But usually I'm off on Sundays, so I mostly want to watch them. 

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44 minutes ago, Hoenheim said:

Is there any one service that I can watch ALL of the games on??

Watching ALL the games will require:

  • Antenna or cable access to local broadcast partners to view the games of the local team. Due to blackout restrictions, the local games will not be available on Sunday Ticket.  What this means is that you DON'T NEED Sunday Ticket to view those local team's games. All games for a local team will ALWAYS be available on a local broadcast partner, no subscription required
  • I've had success streaming the evening Sunday and Monday national games directly off the NFL/NBC/ABC websites, no subscription required. That said, ESPN may require login via your cable provider account - but it's included in your cable fee, so have fun with that.  NBC is available for free via antenna (or avail via cable, take your pick -- and ABC has been simulcasting the ESPN games, so that's also an antenna/free optio.
  • The Peacock and Netflix exclusive games will require subscriptions to those services if the teams are not your local team
  • YouTube will broadcast the Brazil game free 
  • NFL Network for those random thursday games that aren't your local team... until the ESPN partnership comes into play, in which case your ESPN subscription should give you access (lots of assumptions with this bullet)
  • Everything else is pretty much Sunday Ticket or go to your local bar

I may have missed one, but the general gist is above

In short, don't believe the online influences who say you need to purchase a full-year subscription to a service to watch "all" the NFL games (ie full year of Peacock). Because you don't need a full-year sub.   So no -- there is not a single service that will let you watch ALL the games

Sunday Ticket will only cover you only for the sunday daytime games.

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Sunday Ticket is now offering a monthly subscription if you're not interested in subscribing for the full package

Keep in mind that the full package will be less expensive than getting billed monthly for the same timeframe.  But for a one-off month situation? Certainly an option to consider

they also don't seem to mind if 2 households share the same Sunday Ticket login. If you call and ask for discounts, they kinda allude to "do you have a friend you can share the cost with" in the conversation

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While not cheap the best way to watch all the games is Youtube TV with NFL Sunday Ticket. That way any local games that are blacked out on Sunday Ticket are still available. The only games you won't have access to are games exclusively on Amazon Prime or Peacock.

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I know you can get most of the home games on radio usually.

Someone here can assist you with options. Whatever you do. Do not pay much if anything to watch this product. I say the same thing for the other pro franchise in Charlotte. Until the product improves they should practically pay us just to tune in not the other way around.

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10 hours ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

I just do Sunday ticket tbh. They were running a promo recently if you didn’t have YouTube TV but I think you can still get it separate. It’s not cheap but honestly it’s pretty convenient 

You can get it separate. They have annually been offering discounts to "new or returning" subscribers, which means you need to cancel your subscription at the end of each season to qualify.  Don't do the auto-renewal.

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11 hours ago, Hoenheim said:

Is there any one service that I can watch ALL of the games on??

for Sunday afternoon games, the only option to watch ALL those particular games via a "single service" will be YouTube TV + Sunday Ticket

Their multi-view option will utilize both the Sunday Ticket games and local broadcast stations available on YouTube TV

Any other combination of Sunday Ticket standalone and your normal broadcast TV provider will require switching things back and forth to view games

(update to earlier: somehow forgot Amazon Prime for Thurs games)

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