subject: Dish Network Makes The Nfl Season Affordable [print this page] On any given week during the NFL season, there are up to 16-games. DIRECTV would have you believe that having access to each game is worth paying $315 a season. However without paying a dime extra you already have access to 4-games on Sunday, Monday night and Thursday night Football. That's 6-games right there!
The only time I believe it would be worth it is if you are transplanted in another part of the country away from your favorite team - but they better have one hell of a season.
Today's network coverage of the NFL is superb. On Sundays CBS and FOX telecast 1:00pm and 4:00pm games, and even if it is not exactly the game you would prefer, the highlight cut-ins are more than enough to keep you in the action. In most cases the best games of the week are carried nationally and if your local team in your region doesn't trump the coverage - you'll see the game at no extra cost.
Sunday Night Football on NBC is national, everyone gets it, you don't have to pay the DIRECTV ransom. Unless of course you have DIRECTV and they don't carry local channels like Dish Network does.
Monday Night Football is on ESPN - even people who don't want ESPN have it with their cable or Satellite package. Thursday Night Football is carried by NFL Network - this will only be a problem for cable customers, as some do not carry the network.
Odds are that I will end up watching nearly every game a DIRECTV customer watches on my Dish Network service and pay nothing extra.
Dish also gives me the option to add a Multi-Sports package that includes NFL Red Zone Channel along with 29-other sports channels.
NFL Red Zone
THE CHANNEL THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR SUNDAY AFTERNOONS FOREVER
Every Touchdown From Every Game
Dish Network brings you one of the most exciting channels in sports, NFL RedZone! You'll see some of the most incredible moments of every NFL game, every Sunday afternoon - live and in HD. Be there for the excitement, the hard hits, the game winning catches - as they happen on the field - from across the NFL.
Live HD game action from around the league as the ball moves inside the 20-yard line and into the end zone on Dish Network.
