And here we are with the first Friday night game in the NFL in decades,
as well as the first-ever NFL game in Brazil,
on only crappy Peacock streaming except for local viewers in the United States,
for some odd reason if not merely some dirty favour by the NFL to Comcast.
At least this looks like me it will be the last game on only Peacock streaming for a very long time if not also forever, as perhaps Comcast will finally rebrand that archaic product.
Now here’s the green ordeal.
The colour green a big no-deal in Sao Paulo, unless it’s the Brazilian flag:
May this game be as entertaining as last night’s game, yet without the inordinate delay whether by lightning or strange worship session.
As we learned last night and as covered in the NFL rules thread,
for it never gets old for some of us here on the CFL Forum especially for the various pools and contests,
the NFL is playing by STRICT RULES too this season:
For those stuck away from home and not with access to a regular TV or Peacock, here are ways to take in the game other than on Pirate Sports Network.
If you are driving, of course you can catch the game on NFL Radio, Channel 225 or Channel 226 on SiriusXM. Availability can vary in Canada.
If I come across a decent game-following thread on YouTube, I will post that here, but otherwise I am simply following on the NFL website with the Eagles radio call.
Early IT thrown by Hurts deep in his own end, but the Eagles held the Packers to a FG. Green Bay up 3-0 just over five minutes in. First points ever scored in Brazil!
The power of NFL media spin is at hand to portray this game as some massive success in Brazil that it was not.
Eagles win and a good first game played with much to work out and 10 days between games to do it with mini-bye with the next game a real home game on Monday night.
After that experience, I don’t think other NFL teams are eager to go play in Brazil, but who knows how long before the NFL tries a game in Brazil again during an international soccer break weekend.
As noted a federal law via which the NFL has an antritrust exception with complexities, an NFL game cannot be played on the first Friday in September in every season as it could this year due to an early Labor Day.
And hopefully such a game is never again on Peacock, for it’s crap.
Here on NBC locally, in simply watching the last five minutes of the fourth quarter I noticed the feed as retransmitted would be interrupted, which is totally unacceptable for an NFL broadcast.
The TSN feed I was watching wasn’t interrupted. You guys in the US seem to have it much worse than we do in Canada, where $20 a month paid to my cable provider gets me every sport I care to watch. No shuffling stations or crappy streaming. I can’t get every NFL game on Sunday but every off Sunday game is automatic as are all playoff games. Don’t have to worry about whether it’s on Peacock or any other crappy station as you say. Easy peasy.
You have the best deal there in Manitoba in all of North America, Jon.
In fact in much of the world outside the US and Canada, even via streaming, NFL One Pass viewers get a far better deal to watch the NFL than do we in the US via the expensive NFL Sunday Ticket.
Here in Philadelphia, speaking in general, I’ve had closer to as good as it gets without cable since November 2021 but not quite, but I am working on that this week for an even better deal.
As discussed in other threads and not worth the detail now, in 2025 there are changes coming for supposed improvement in local TV signals, and I will adapt when it makes sense.
Also forthcoming by 2026 are various multiple-sports streaming services, but those are snarled now in litigation and technology challenges, which we will cover going forward with any important develops in the streaming thread.
