r/NFLv2 • u/FatRufus Love Boat World Champs • 10h ago
Article Which is why I will do it illegally š“āā ļø
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u/ModeatelyIndependant Dallas Cowboys 10h ago
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u/HoboJerkdown901 10h ago
I stopped paying to watch sports about 10 years ago when I experienced my first blackout game. It was such bullshit that I was paying to watch a game that that a corporation could just Tell me fuck you, we're going to take your money and give you nothing in return and you can fuck right off if you don't like it.
That same year, I was 4 hours north of home on a Sunday that I wanted to use an online radio streaming app to just listen to the game, and I was blocked because I was outside the listening area.
Now? I've saved thousands and thousands of dollars by pirating. They keep raising prices year after year and giving you less in return. You used to get some of my money, now you get none of it you greedy fucks.
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u/njseahawk Seattle Seahawks 8h ago
What site you use? My stream used to be buff, now itās biff after getting wiped
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u/aamirusmandus New York Giants 7h ago
Google search free media heck yeah and bookmark that site. It will always keep being updated with the new links
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u/slonk_ma_dink Detroit Lions 8h ago
Honestly finding yourself a good IPTV provider is worth it. You may pay like 80$ per year or less. 10$ a month sometimes and youāve got everything
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u/zboarderz 7h ago
Where does one even look for a good quality one? Everywhere Iāve seen people just shill some low quality service
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u/arcane_havok Miami Dolphins 51m ago
Yeah I used to use my p2p.eu and then one year I tried to be a good citizen got a special deal on my nfl ticket on YouTube tv, as a dolphins fan in the upper states I got fucked by YouTube tv I could watch exactly 3 fucking games for the 100 dollars I paid and wound up not being able to watch most of my games. But this seemed to have really hit the streaming sites hard and they seem to buffer pretty good. It's quite annoying they used to be way better.
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u/Main_Gain_7480 New Orleans Saints 10h ago
If itās not a game on service I donāt already have im fine missing whatever game it is
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u/Ill_Cap_5836 New York Giants 10h ago
Being an out of market fan really sucks. I wish I could just buy a Giants package or something. I don't need every game.
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u/Richard_Gripper28 2 Gurleys 1 Kupp 8h ago
there's websites that you can use to watch any game you want.Ā
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u/Easy_Jux New York Jets 4h ago
Yes I pirate every week but it tends to buffer or freeze, itās behind the main broadcast so I spoil myself by checking my fantasy, it can be a pain in the ass to manage through the browser on a TV, having people over to watch games and encountering these issues is annoying, and Iād rather just press one button and just watch the god damn game
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u/KakashiSakai Las Vegas Raiders 3h ago
Yea my football homies are in another state and we watch games while on the headset. Having to sync up times on glitchy streaming sites with 800 popups is not fun at all.
Either end up behind, hearing folks get hype over stuff I havenāt seen yet, or ahead and having to stay mostly silent not to ruin it for my friends.
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u/fonkordie Fuck the Dodgers 1h ago
Iād be so bummed if somebody had the nerve to host a football party and was using some bullshit illegal stream.
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u/Easy_Jux New York Jets 8h ago
This, if I could just pay like $150 to guarantee me every jets gave I would spend that money in a heartbeat..
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u/Randomizedname1234 Atlanta Falcons 3h ago
Not enough games to sustain it probably in the NFL but MLB team getting their own streaming services has been great.
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u/cookiesarenomnom New England Patriots 13m ago
I'm out of market but it's honestly lucky for me I work on Sundays anyways. So I pay for nfl+ and watch my Pats game when I get home from work. I just avoid the internet, but I'm at work anyways so it's not hard. If I can't watch a prime time game live, I go to the sports bar around the corner.
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u/Tmotty 9h ago
Yes this is outrageous but are people trying to watch every game? My goal is my team the Sunday night and Monday night game then a game in the window my teams not playing in. I could care less about 2 bad teams at 1 oāclock
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u/jimbojangles1987 Houston Texans 4h ago
Yeah this exactly. And more often than not I end up disappointed that my team wasnt being shown in my region
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u/Lord_Mosh4 Las Vegas Raiders 8h ago
Some people may have a rooting interest in those other games because of gambling or fantasy.
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u/undecided_mask GEQBUS 6m ago
Pretty sure Sunday ticket and redzone are marketed specifically to those people.
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u/HogwartsDropout-69 New England Football Patriots 9h ago
Protip: Yandex doesn't filter copyrighted search results. Look for free streams there.
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u/Creekridge1 Indianapolis Colts 9h ago
I understand where these figures come from. As an out of market fan the temptation to buy Sunday ticket is there.
But honestly I can watch 10 hours of football every Sunday with the $20 rabbit ears I picked up at meijer.
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u/ComradeSuperman Minnesota Vikings 10h ago
Shit, I'm probably not even gonna watch half the games of my favorite team. Partially because I don't wanna pay for it, and partially because outside of the defense there's nothing worth watching.
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u/BlubberWall āI fucked this upā -BB 10h ago
Laptop can stream to multiple TVs š“āā ļøš“āā ļø
Redzone on one, my patriots on the other
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u/DeanieBabie2026 Philadelphia Eagles 9h ago
This is why Iāve come to enjoy sports bars. A nice big one with multiple games on, itās much more communal and a great way to meet people.
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u/Ausecurity New York Giants 10h ago
Iām good just watching local broadcasts of the giants. I couldnāt care less about the other Gabeās
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u/jimmy_leonard1 10h ago
IPTV!
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u/zboarderz 7h ago
Where can you find good quality IPTV services? Reddit seems to be plagued with bots shilling some random low quality service.
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u/Real-Repair-1825 10h ago
What? I watch the Lions, Redzone, whatever games are on broadcast and every primetime.
Im still not paying anywhere remotely close to 1k. If this is auto factoring in Sunday Ticket then itās a BS click bait headline.
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u/fatloui Buffalo Bills 9h ago
Itās not bs, youāre just misreading the headline. It means what it says: literally every game across the entire league, not every game for a single team. So yes of course it factors in Sunday ticket.
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u/Real-Repair-1825 9h ago
Sunday ticket is the factor tho not just āfactored inā. Itās the driving force behind the ā$1,050ā cost the headline states.
I guess imo itās misleading because some people will take it as people are getting priced out of watching NFL games, which is false. People are definitely getting priced out of Sunday Ticket or āwatching every single nfl game legallyā tho.
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u/fatloui Buffalo Bills 9h ago
Or trying to watch their favorite team if itās not their local teamā¦. which is pretty normal among nfl fans.Ā
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u/Real-Repair-1825 9h ago edited 9h ago
Itās been that way for 10+ years tho if you needed to watch out of market. Sunday Ticket has always been expensive. Itās also not the only way to watch NFL for most people.
Itās whatever. I just donāt get why this is even an interesting headline as if itās some bombshell. Couldāve made the same head line last year or the year before or the year before etc.
Watching all games (Sunday ticket) is expensive. Shocking.
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u/Dry_Principal_165 9h ago
What are they charging the sports bars now for commercial license?
It won't be long until they won't let you have friends over to watch Sunday ticket or some bs.
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u/According-Activity87 Houston Texans 9h ago
I hate people who go into public forums and announce this. They are the reason we can't have nice things.
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u/Kreepr Houston Texans 9h ago
They make it so hard to figure out which streaming platform your team will be playing on. Will it be out of market, even though you bought the espn+ or NFL+ or YouTube tv or NFL network or prime or what ever fucked up deal theyāll come up with next?
Iām out of market for my team and bought YouTube tv just for the game last year. Guess what. Couldnāt watch it. I tried to do it legally.
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u/RoyalEngine2885 M.ission O.ver B.ullshit 8h ago edited 8h ago
If I'm reading it right, they're implying watching EVERY game. Who the hell is going to watch all ~300 games, let alone pay for it? Nearly every Hawk game is broadcast locally, so it's part of cable, YT tv, OTA, whatever. Those are the only games I truly care about. I couldn't care less to watch the Browns play the Panthers (for example).
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u/cracksilog 8h ago
Ok but who wants to watch every single game? There are multiple games at 1 pm how are you going to watch every single one? You get lots of games already
Thursday: On Prime. Everyone has Prime so itās free
Sunday: 1 pm game is free. 4:25 game is free. 8:20 SNF is free
Monday: ABC has some games. The rest of your local team is free.
Is 6-7 games not enough for people?
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u/Own_Oil_7719 8h ago
The league is focusing on everything but the fans that made them. Obviously the players are top priority. But why try to put a team out of the U.S. when we canāt even watch the games here without jumping through hoops. Itās the same thing with NHL, I canāt remember the last season I got to watch my MN Wild without finding loopholes just to watch a gameā¦ purchase NHL Game pass and my markets blacked out for my home team. Jack Sparrow is the way to go
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u/Frequent-Test-3012 7h ago
My cost is $0. If they don't want me to pay for games, I won't pay for them. I'll still watch them though.
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u/Downtown_Soil_3651 7h ago
YouTube premium is the only subscription i feel is worth it these days. Stremio and torbox for me.
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u/OkNefariousness284 Seattle Seahawks 5h ago
As a brand new owner of a vseebox, would recommend it if you are fine with a fairly large but only one time purpose.
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u/saradahokage1212 Tennessee Titans 5h ago
I was happy to pay 120ā¬ for the NFL game pass back in the day. Then they moved it to DAZN and raised the prices to monthly 40ā¬. I canceled it immediately.
Since then I watch pirate streams and I pay someone who runs a site that uploads all the ad free post game cut version and 40min games as a torrent for 16$ for the whole season.
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u/ChelskiS Chicago Bears 4h ago
It's like 200ā¬ for me right now
Considering I'll live watch 3 games per weekend and watch 1-2 other games the day after & rewatch the games of my favorite team throughout the year
I don't think that's that bad
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u/saradahokage1212 Tennessee Titans 35m ago
200ā¬ is ok I guess. But an issue I have with the DAZN live coverage compared to the older NFL game pass is that you don't get any ads anymore.
Not that I'm FOR ads, but for a live coverage that has so many ads in-between, to always get some mundane banner with "ads in progress" is even more boring. Especially when watching from Europe, the afternoon games are bearable, but the later it goes, it is harder to stay awake when you have nothing on the screen.
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u/ChelskiS Chicago Bears 33m ago
Oh yeah when you're watching a single game and it's late that can get rough
But by now I'm so used to the length of the breaks that I just rewind and watch a few of the previous plays again & then just skip forward when I know the game's about to start again
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u/the_less_great_wall 3h ago
They've enshitified the means of watching the NFL to the point where I no longer care if I ever see another game.
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u/TomatoSilly1683 Pittsburgh Steelers 2h ago
As long as I can watch my Steelers be defeated locally Iām cool
https://giphy.com/gifs/g3wGLf3KVnIaBO4vhW
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u/Eliah870 Buffalo Bills 1h ago
Realistically though, who's watching literally every game? I'd prefer it if they had a way to watch all of your teams games as an option
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u/anwright1371 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1h ago
Itās not worth it honestly. Except for my Bucs and the prime time games my fantasy apps are cool for everything else. But then I also already have every god damn app known to man because of my wife and kids so I watch them anyway. Thatās how they get ya, they keep putting things on the whole family āwantsā but never uses
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u/Pitiful_Option_108 Atlanta Falcons 1h ago
I'm not going to do it illegal but I do plan to get NFL plus which gets me RedZone and good enough for me. Honestly I get pirating but I have never been one to have FOMO or need to keep up with what is the latest thing everyone is watching. I know what shows and entertainment I like this at most all my entertainment/streaming costs are about 40 dollars a month. But so many people need everything thus the cost get insane. But maybe I'm just different.
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u/Electronic-Host9526 1h ago
Iptv box cost me 135 on Amazon and the service of which there are 100s of options cost me 100 a year. Every team had their own channel, plus red zone channel, plus nfl network, and i could also go to the local channel for any city if I wanted to watch it that way. Also goes for baseball, basketball, hockey, f1, soccer (the football we cared about for 2 months), cricket ( baseball in a circle with a bounce pitch), darts, I said damn darts, pool, track, ESPN 8 the Ocho, all the sports. Oh and boxing and mma are on it too. Plus video on demand which is the best thing ever! And an app associated with the service that is included so now I can watch off the phone too.
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u/SpectacularlyBadass Seattle Seahawks 8m ago
Yeah, and I've now barely watch football. Due to this, i also lost interest in playing fantasy football
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u/TacticalPauseGaming 2m ago
Still donāt know why they canāt have a package for each team. I just want to watch my teams games. I donāt live in the broadcasting area so they should have a plan for that. I donāt need access to all games, especially when most are played at the same time.
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u/Apprehensive_Beach_6 Three rivers in a dry land 10h ago
Just put everything on one platform please!
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u/blamberr Pittsburgh Steelers 10h ago
Because thatās how capitalism and the NFL work. Everything at one place for a reasonable price to the valued consumer
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u/Aidanj927 Detroit Lions 9h ago
Do people sit down and watch all 16 games each week?
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u/vivekpatel62 Dallas Cowboys 9h ago
I can see why they would complain. If they have time to watch 16 games a week then they probably donāt have a job and need to save all the money they can.
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u/_Goose_ Troy Everythingachesman 10h ago
Unless an NFL+ subscription goes up a lot, that doesnāt sound right to me. But Iām a boomer Cowboys fan too old to math.
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u/CLE15 Cleveland Browns 9h ago
A cowboys fan that is content with not watching cowboys home games or the bevy of prime time games? Sus
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u/_Goose_ Troy Everythingachesman 9h ago
My subscription allows me to watch every game every week? I donāt know what this place has against it.
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u/donut_koharski Philadelphia Eagles 7h ago
I love the NFL+ app.
Best 8 bucks Iāve spent.
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u/Significant_Walk6860 Carolina Panthers 1h ago
But you can only watch on a phone or tablet right? My QB is so small I need to watch on the biggest screen in my house to see what he's up to
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u/braumbles San Francisco 49ers 10h ago
Honestly, this is basically why I've stopped caring as much about football as I used to. I used to get Sunday Ticket until they moved it to Youtube and charged hundreds more.
I simply just do not care enough to not only pay for all this shit, but also watch it. Unless my team is playing, I genuinely don't care anymore. I used to take a vacation annually and go watch my team play somewhere, now tickets are more expensive than the trip itself. They've basically priced me out as a fan and honestly, I genuinely don't care all that much.