NFL TV map-Week 1

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(09-07-2022, 02:32 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I tried it back in 2020.
It's very tough to avoid seeing the score updates before you can watch the game.
And if you already know the outcome, it's tough being motivated to watch the game after.

If you can't avoid your phone for about 7 hours(3.5 hours live and 3.5 hours replay), then you're going to have problems. I only had one issue in three seasons. Opening day last year when an old friend came back into my circle after a long absence and didn't know not to talk football with me on Sundays. "Bengals got lucky but big opening day win!" was the text I got as I was clocking out from work and heading home(I asked for an early 4 hour shift on Sundays because they were almost all 9:00 am games, 1:00 pm EST). "Ummm, thanks but I was just going home to watch it . . . I only have NFL Game Pass so I can't watch it live. I have to wait 10-15 minutes until the game is over to give them time to upload it."

Pro-Tip: Some commercials are cut out of the first few hours of availability but if you can wait until even later, almost every commercial is cut out.  

(09-07-2022, 02:35 PM)Sled21 Wrote: I've used it for the last couple of years to catch the games that aren't shown in Louisville. The biggest drawback is you can't watch the other 1PM games without seeing the scores, so I missed some of the games, like Baltimore vs Cleveland, etc., that I would like to have watched due to that one thing.

They need to implement the dual screen or quad screen that MLB.tv has to watch up to 4 games at once. I love that feature. In years past, I would cut a long piece of card board and tape it across the crawl at the bottom of the screen to avoid spoilers. Now I just stack CDs or DVDs in front of the key spots so I can enjoy the other games later. Jim Nance is still old school and thinks he needs to read out the scores of other games to you, so fair warning on that if he's calling a game that you're watching.

(09-07-2022, 03:13 PM)Earendil Wrote: I generally don't watch other games unless forced to. I think what is different this year as opposed to previous years is that according to their site, the game is available when it is over rather than having to wait until the Sunday night game finishes. I hope that's how it actually works. If not, then I guess I'll be cancelling it and finding another way to watch. I'm not usually home on Sundays until around 4pm anyway, so that part won't be hard.

Like I said above, if you either don't tell your friends to leave you alone regarding the Bengals or can't avoid your phone for 7 hours, it sucks. But it sounds like you'll be busy for most of the games so it may work out. I have found the phone silence to be a positive biproduct of having Game Pass which I guess is called NFL+ now.