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I do not haz all the NFL
Sep. 18th, 2020 12:22 amThe main American Football season has started again.
For the past couple of years, the BBC have had two very good NFL programmes each week. The Saturday one has the highlights of the previous Thursday night game and previews the games happening on the Sunday plus the Monday night game, while the Tuesday one covers those.
This year, there's only the Saturday programme.
I have no idea why they have dropped the Saturday one (although one of the co-presenters, Jason Bell,* is on Strictly now) but it's lost the most useful bit of the coverage.
Even if the Saturday programme is about to spend more than a minute on the previous week's games, they're still going to have things like predictions (usually wrong) etc about what's about to happen, plus the Thursday night game... all of which will eat into covering 15/16 of them each week.
It looks like Five have the Monday Night Football game live, but I'm not going to bother watching (m)any of those because of the time zone issues.
That leaves Sky's free-if-you-have-Virgin sports channel's NFL Redzone, which is six hours of covering the highlights of every Sunday game, simulatenously, with no real ads, live. I have never been tempted by speed-alike drugs, but taking some would definitely help with this programme as it jumps around between up to six or so games at one time!
You can get six or seven minute highlights of every game for free (possibly only for this year) from the NFL Gamepass site, but those are cut straight from the live footage, with no replays or analysis. They're also patchy: one game I was interested in from the first week started its short coverage with one team already having scored a touchdown. Hello? How did that happen? No idea...
Grrr.
* Although the three tease each other about a variety of things, not once have they mentioned that Jason was one of those who took money to promote the infamous Fyre Festival...
For the past couple of years, the BBC have had two very good NFL programmes each week. The Saturday one has the highlights of the previous Thursday night game and previews the games happening on the Sunday plus the Monday night game, while the Tuesday one covers those.
This year, there's only the Saturday programme.
I have no idea why they have dropped the Saturday one (although one of the co-presenters, Jason Bell,* is on Strictly now) but it's lost the most useful bit of the coverage.
Even if the Saturday programme is about to spend more than a minute on the previous week's games, they're still going to have things like predictions (usually wrong) etc about what's about to happen, plus the Thursday night game... all of which will eat into covering 15/16 of them each week.
It looks like Five have the Monday Night Football game live, but I'm not going to bother watching (m)any of those because of the time zone issues.
That leaves Sky's free-if-you-have-Virgin sports channel's NFL Redzone, which is six hours of covering the highlights of every Sunday game, simulatenously, with no real ads, live. I have never been tempted by speed-alike drugs, but taking some would definitely help with this programme as it jumps around between up to six or so games at one time!
You can get six or seven minute highlights of every game for free (possibly only for this year) from the NFL Gamepass site, but those are cut straight from the live footage, with no replays or analysis. They're also patchy: one game I was interested in from the first week started its short coverage with one team already having scored a touchdown. Hello? How did that happen? No idea...
Grrr.
* Although the three tease each other about a variety of things, not once have they mentioned that Jason was one of those who took money to promote the infamous Fyre Festival...