The pricing is out for 2012 and for once it actually seems pretty good. £99 for the season (which is 33% LESS than last year) and you get: •Access to every minute of every NFL game throughout the 2012 NFL Season •Access to 256 games during the 2012 NFL Regular Season •Access to 65 preseason games this season •Access to the NFL Game Pass archives, allowing you to watch any game from the past three seasons (2009-2011) •Access to live NFL Network streaming for the best preview, review and historic NFL programming available •Ability to decide what to watch and when •Ability to jump between games and even choose different commentary for certain games •Ability to watch as many as four games simultaneously in a split-screen format •Ability to watch entire games, condensed into 30 minutes of pure gameplay – no commercials, timeouts, or downtime Pretty sweet deal and one I will be subscribing to this year (even if it is f'ing annoying that we dont get RedZone in the UK due to Sky).
Don't think so, seems like its every country EXCEPT the US. Probably has to do with the contracts with the TV networks.
Have had this service for the past two seasons + playoffs! One of the best purchases of my life, hands down.
I know, it is so rare to see something associated with the NFL that actually represents some sort of value for money. Signed up the other day to enjoy some past highlights - really loooking forward to the pre-season games and seeing what the rookies can do (I enjoy the pre-season as its the only stress free football you get - barring injuries).
They (the NFL) are really trying to generate a level of interest across the pond that will lead to a team over there... so they really have to make the games available at a price even some of the more casual fans might buy.
In that case, I wish they'd upped the price to £500. I hate the idea of further expansion of the NFL and a London franchise would be very poorly supported because all the fans over here are already locked into an existing NFL team. The London team would play host to a different set of away fans every week.
Not only that, but the travel implications are completely ridiculous. To top it off, how many times has the team that went to London come back to their bye week, and then still played horrendously their next game? That would be happening weekly. What about division games? Does the London team get to play 8 straight at home then 8 on the road? Can you imagine the back and forth travel and the London team has to play? No matter the talent level I don't think they could ever have a winning season. By some chance they won a division and had a home playoff game? The greatest HFA in history would be that travel.
Im not for the London thing but you guys are making the travel problem a much bigger deal than it is, at least for east coast teams. A trip from NY to San Diego is about 6 hours. A trip from NY to London is less than 7 hours. Realistically a team could plan an east coast game and then follow it up with a direct flight to london and then practice in London during the week. I dont want to see it happen, but its bound to happen at this point. And I wouldnt be suprised if the NFL made an entire division overseas and then just eliminated 1 wildcard spot for either the AFC or NFC or just made the #2 seed have to play on wildcard weekend and have 7 spots for one conference.
NFL Europe was a failed experiment. they couldnt keep the game afloat over there. There is no way they could support a division worth of teams. secondly, just because the Jets could do the travel without much difference, what about the Chargers having to go to London? Thats a pretty big fucking difference than just flying to the east coast. Also your playoff plan completely destroys the equality of conferences and is just bad overall. It also doesn't help when teams who come back from london and go directly to the bye week, and then after a week off, still lose their next game year after year.
Another big problem with a London team would be the kick off times for matches. If the London home games were going to be showed in the US they would all have to be early kickoffs or else the finish time in London would be past midnight, with no public transport working at that time and complaints to the Authorities - from non football fans - about the noise and lights, etc.
Whoa, they're offering Gamepass for free here! It says they can cut it at any time, but hopefully it lasts the season . Was getting ready to pay the 350 odd dollars too.
The best part about Gamepass for me is the iPad app. So convenient. Will be signing up before next Friday's game.
I didn't know there was an iPad app. I think I'll be getting this for the first preseason game as well.
Just out of curiousity, where is "here"? It is quite possible to convince NFL.com that you are in a different country than you actually are, and I would love to know where they are giving it out for free.
Yeah where is it free? I assume it would be a country that the NFL wants to move into. It actually isnt a bad idea from an NFL standpoint to do this, to get more fans across the world.
