New SKY NFL Schedule Rocks!!

The Sparrow

http://www.skysports.com/skysports/article/0,,2021-1276943,00.html

Sky have confirmed details of their NFL coverage for next season and it is pretty awesome imo!

*Pre-season: For the first time, six live pre-season games during August

*Sunday: Live Sunday evening ‘triple-headers’ throughout the regular season

*Monday: For the first time on Sky, ‘Monday Night Football’ live each week

*Interactive: Two extra live Sunday night regular season games via the red button

*Playoffs: Every game exclusively live from the post-season

*Super Bowl: Live coverage of the big game from Arizona on 3rd February 2008

*Extra matches: Pro Bowl, Thanksgiving Day, Thursday and Saturday night matches live

*Support: Including ‘NFL Total Access’ show six nights a week, a weekly highlights show, Sky season preview plus ‘America’s Game’ Super Bowl series

Sounds pretty impressive to me... Its great for anyone in Ireland who couldn`t receive Channel 5. I can`t wait for the season and Monday Night Football:D

Pherekydes

Sh!te. Now I'll never get any sleep.

Dodge

Saves me having to watch Sunday and Monday Night football through streams!

FAns in UK moaning as Channel 5 have lost those packages

lassie69

Unreal! and I've just signed up to NASN!!

daveirl

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Kinetic^

daveirl wrote:

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She knows you're from Cork, right?

Looking forward to this alright, have slowly being getting more and more interested in the last few years.

Vikings

Damn Sky to hell that's all i'll say...

actually no, its not. I love you Sky... have to start booking Monday nights off work now to make sure I get them off in time

tallaghtoutlaws

I cant wait my new job pays me to watch sports day and night sweeet! Good ol Sky knew they would let my €65 a month down.

Vikings

Damn it, knew I was in the wrong job!

Thats a helluva lot of football to take in though... thank god for Sky+

tallaghtoutlaws

Looked at my schedule aint going to get much sleeping done between work and football. The job I started in has a big ass flatscreen HDTV on the main wall.

My sky+ will be well used I tells ye.

dulpit

So is there any NFL available anywhere else besides Sky? I thought there was some deal whereby the NFL pledged that the terrestrial channels would get some games (hence channel 5 having Monday Night Football for a while)

I was gunning for ITV or Channel 4 or someone to get something (we ain't got sky @ home)

dulpit

Actually just grabbed this from http://www.nfluk.com/news-display.php?id=2517

The NFL postseason will also air on Sky, with every game exclusively live in the UK, culminating in live coverage of Super Bowl XLII from University of Phoenix Stadium on February 3rd, 2008.

Negotiations for NFL terrestrial coverage are currently ongoing and will be completed next month. Look out for further information on nfluk.com during August.

So good and bad news there for us with no sky sports - the good is there will be terrestrial coverage (will it just be highlights or live games?)

The bad news is highlighted, every playoff game exclusive to Sky... That hardly includes the Super Bowl, does it?

Dodge

In NFl statements they usually keep the superbowl separate. I'd say that it would still be on ITV/C5

Over on NFLUK they've said that there will be live NFL on a UK terrestial station so I'm guessing C5 will show Sunday/Monday Night Football as well as Sky (note that the statement only uses the words exclusively when talking about the playoffs)

The Sparrow

I`ve been thinking about this since I started this thread yesterday and I have come to the conclusion that with this new Sky NFL programming I may struggle to lead a normal life for at least four months of the year. As a soccer and NFL fan I`m not sure how anybody could function as a normal human being and watch everything they want to. I mean from all the NFL Sunday games to Monday Night Football plus the new daily NFL show on Sky Sports plus four or five Premiership football matches a weekend on Setanta and Sky Sports and thats without even mentioning the Champions League and UEFA Cup as well as La Liga and International games. You would pretty much have to never leave your house to be able to watch it all!!:eek: Happy days I say!:D

Pherekydes

woooo232 wrote:

As a soccer and NFL fan...

I'm an Athletics fan meself, and the two seasons only overlap slightly.

The result: year-round couch potatoism.

Kinetic^

woooo232 wrote:

I`ve been thinking about this since I started this thread yesterday and I have come to the conclusion that with this new Sky NFL programming I may struggle to lead a normal life for at least four months of the year. As a soccer and NFL fan I`m not sure how anybody could function as a normal human being and watch everything they want to. I mean from all the NFL Sunday games to Monday Night Football plus the new daily NFL show on Sky Sports plus four or five Premiership football matches a weekend on Setanta and Sky Sports and thats without even mentioning the Champions League and UEFA Cup as well as La Liga and International games. You would pretty much have to never leave your house to be able to watch it all!!:eek: Happy days I say!:D

Yeah I'm the same only throw the NBA into the mix as well and what do you get? ...............An unhappy gf

Chucky the tree

woooo232 wrote:

I`ve been thinking about this since I started this thread yesterday and I have come to the conclusion that with this new Sky NFL programming I may struggle to lead a normal life for at least four months of the year. As a soccer and NFL fan I`m not sure how anybody could function as a normal human being and watch everything they want to. I mean from all the NFL Sunday games to Monday Night Football plus the new daily NFL show on Sky Sports plus four or five Premiership football matches a weekend on Setanta and Sky Sports and thats without even mentioning the Champions League and UEFA Cup as well as La Liga and International games. You would pretty much have to never leave your house to be able to watch it all!!:eek: Happy days I say!:D

Sundays are great, especially if there were two football matches on sunday.

2pm - First match
4pm - 2nd match
6pm -12pm straight over to xtra for 2 nfl matches

12:30am -2am i would eat and just laze about, then hook up the laptop to watch the late night sunday match.

Delighted it's on sky now, will make trading so much easier.

BizzyC

Cant wait.
Return to Ireland in September, finish college in October, wont be working for a while.

I'll be getting a lot of games in.... you SKy!

timmyyyy4

This is gonna be great!!

The Sparrow

Chucky the tree wrote:

Sundays are great, especially if there were two football matches on sunday.

2pm - First match
4pm - 2nd match
6pm -12pm straight over to xtra for 2 nfl matches

12:30am -2am i would eat and just laze about, then hook up the laptop to watch the late night sunday match.

Well actually I think Sky will be showing the late night Sunday game as well. The Sky press release advertises a triple-header on Sunday evenings as well as two interactive games through the red button. So I guess that would suggest that on top of everything they are adding a late game on Sunday evenings. I would imagine that no other television station in the world will be showing as much NFL as Sky are this year because in the States its fragmented on different television channels.

Plus I watch UFC which tends to be on Sunday evenings on Bravo too so that adds even more programming to the list. And I hadn`t even considered the Rugby World Cup which is happening this autumn too... Sky + will be working overtime this autumn. The mind boggles when you consider it all:eek:

tallaghtoutlaws

Chucky the tree wrote:

Sundays are great, especially if there were two football matches on sunday.

2pm - First match
4pm - 2nd match
6pm -12pm straight over to xtra for 2 nfl matches

12:30am -2am i would eat and just laze about, then hook up the laptop to watch the late night sunday match.

Delighted it's on sky now, will make trading so much easier.

2pm first match no NFL game is going to start at 7am their Chucky.

Those times are most likely 6pm, 9pm and 1am Irish time on Sky sports as Sky are showing all 3 games on the Sunday now.

The Sparrow

tallaghtoutlaws wrote:

2pm first match no NFL game is going to start at 7am their Chucky.

Those times are most likely 6pm, 9pm and 1am Irish time on Sky sports as Sky are showing all 3 games on the Sunday now.

Chucky means first Premiership match at 2pm on a doubleheader soccer sunday on Sky Sports not the NFL.

From what I am reading, Sky are definitely showing all three Sunday NFL games too... It will be the usual 6pm and 9pm games and then there will be an hour and a half with Nick and Kev in studio with highlights of other games and build up to the late game between the second game ending at 12:30am and the third game starting at 2am. Also as well as the nightly NFL Total Access which will be broadcast in a regular slot between 9pm and 12:30am on one of the Sky Sports channels they will also be airing Playbook for an hour each week and also Top 10 – a weekly show in which NFL Network mines the NFL Films library for a fresh look on some of the best debates in football history, and Who Is? – a topical show focusing on a burning NFL-related question each week. So even more programming...

Oh and btw the NFL network programming apparently starts next Wednesday, August 1st on Sky Sports! Wowza!!:D

http://www.nfluk.com/news-display.php?id=2517

Third_Echelon

deadly.... can't wait for the new season to start!!!!

tallaghtoutlaws

tallaghtoutlaws wrote:

2pm first match no NFL game is going to start at 7am their Chucky.

Those times are most likely 6pm, 9pm and 1am Irish time on Sky sports as Sky are showing all 3 games on the Sunday now.

Whoops I knew lack of sleep would affectmy ability to read My apologies Chucky and Roll on the The NFL Season.

dulpit

Here's a question for those of ye who watch the NFL regularly, if you sit down to watch a game will you watch the whole thing or flick between stuff?

I have NASN, so i watched a lot of College Football last year, some games i'd watch only bits of, flicking between channels... I suppose what's different between Sky & NASN is that Sky have the presenters back in studio, so after a punt of a score or whatever NASN would go to a break, whereas sky could go back to the studio...

Dodge

Depends on the game. if its great I'll watch it all. if its rubbish or a complete blow out I'll flick. Some Sunday games clash with Spanish football or other sports I'll have an interest in so I'll flick.

daveirl

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dulpit

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I would think they're shorter, what with the clock rules being different... But you would have some blow-outs... I do find that the close college games are far more exciting than a close NFL game, generally more is on the line in college, where 1 loss hurts a team far more than in the NFL...

tallaghtoutlaws

As a College football nut I enjoy College ball far more than the NFL. My Saturdays consisted of me with my laptop on wathing games on ESPN gameplan with a game on NASN also on in the background. College games are generally shorter than NFL games due to less ads and stoppages for ads. Slight variance in the timing but the continous clock rule has disapeared from NCAA and they revert back to the old way this year. I only flick through on ads being honest and I time it well to go back.

The Sparrow

First three weeks of Sky NFL programmming has been announced. And if your a Dolphins fan you should be happy cos Sky are pushing them to death! As a Steelerss fan, I`m not so happy but c`est la vie! Oh and the games are all on Sky Sports 1 and 2 which makes a change.

http://www.nfluk.com/news-display.php?id=2522

de5p0i1er

Time to buy a sky+ box.

irishbucsfan

Arthur Daley

So to sum up should we definetely get sky sports for the upcoming NFL season? Is Setanta a viable alternative? Especially if you're not too keen on the NFL network commentary having watched the superbowl on ITV?

KaiserSnake

Really cant wait for the start to the new season! I only got into it seriously last season and this new NFL schedule will mean I wont be getting much sleep for the next few months.

Im hoping for another good season out of my team the Philadelphia Eagles and also the N.E Patriots as I have them on my accumulator bet for the upcoming season.

Chucky the tree

Arthur Daley wrote:

So to sum up should we definetely get sky sports for the upcoming NFL season? Is Setanta a viable alternative? Especially if you're not too keen on the NFL network commentary having watched the superbowl on ITV?

Setanta dont show any nfl.

Dodge

Arthur Daley wrote:

So to sum up should we definetely get sky sports for the upcoming NFL season? Is Setanta a viable alternative? Especially if you're not too keen on the NFL network commentary having watched the superbowl on ITV?

That wasn't the NFL network commentary but rather an "overseas" commentary team. They do it with baseball's world series too. Agree it was terrible (I listened to the US commentary myself)

As it is the NFL network commentator (Something Gumbel) is terrible. Far too nasal for sports commentary. Their analyst, Cris Collingsworth, is excellent though

LuckyLloyd

Wow!! Add this to college ball on NASN and I can confidently predict that my work and poker is going down the drain from September through January. Yay!!

Arthur Daley

Chucky the tree wrote:

Setanta dont show any nfl.

So no competition then. Sky to be ordered next week. I had thought Setanta had NFL through their NASN channel.

jdivision

They do but in places like Germany. Sky and Channel 5 have British rights and Sky has satellite rights here

me-skywalker

been over a year but still gotta add to this convo.....

fantastic scehdule just keeps coming along!! if you have a dodgy box you get the likes of MUTV and LFC and sportscentre and all the eurosprts and all the setantats and skys

couch gets alot of use over the weekend awesome stuff!

LuckyLloyd

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Wow!! Add this to college ball on NASN and I can confidently predict that my work and poker is going down the drain from September through January. Yay!!

I SEE THE FUTURE

kmart6

me-skywalker wrote: »

been over a year

Which generally means start a new thread...although can't say one would have been needed for that post!!

Sea Devils

TBH The Sky NFL schedule always rocked apart from the Skyami disaster last year ....

Lothaar

I'm a bit miffed that Sky don't show the extended highlights of SNF on Monday nights anymore. I went to bed at halftime of the Denver-San Diego game a couple of weeks ago, thinking I could watch the game on Monday. Missed a classic.