NFL.com streams nearly all of the game
Cory Bergman November 29th, 2007
This was a new experience: propping my laptop on the kitchen counter so I could watch the Cowboys-Packers game live while I cooked dinner. At first, I was suspecting (as I blogged earlier) a terrible experience. After all, NFL.com said it would only provide live “look-ins” to NFL Network’s coverage every 30 minutes or so (along with plays in the red zone), but it turned out they simulcast the entire game. Well, almost. They clipped a few plays here and there, and at one point had their sideline guy yapping about this and that while the game was underway behind him. Super annoying, but not the “stupidcast” that I called it earlier. Perhaps the NFL bowed to the overwhelming pressure from fans and threw us a bone? Anyway, during the breaks a web studio team analyzed the action, aired some replays, ran some promos and occasionally plugged IWantNFLNetwork.com. Geesh.
Oh, and I gotta give the announcers (both Collinsworth and the web team) props for calling BS on the bad calls from the refs. As an NFL production, I thought they would sugarcoat everything, but they called it straight. (Yes, Cowboy fans, those were bad calls.)
6 Comments Add your own
1. Aaron | November 29th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Too bad they don’t have the bandwidth to support so many video streams. I get about 5 seconds at a time before it stutters.
2. Greg Aiello | November 29th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Mr. Bergman,
Please remove the image of the NFL Networks’ logo which also contains NFL players involved in a play on your main page.
This is in violation of the NFL rules, its agencies, and operations.
Your use is strictly forbidden without the expressed written consent of the NFL, its agencies, and poor schlep of IT personnel who may be based in the future in India.
3. Brink | November 30th, 2007 at 7:16 am
But do you WANT to watch an NFL game on your PC when you could be watching it on your home theater system with 60″ screen and 7.1 surround?
4. Todd Graham | November 30th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
As the NFL nuts around the station grumbled about not being able to see the game, they found their way to ESPN’s site and the page with the “live” game description. So while, the NFL might have ended up putting most of the game on the air live on the web. It didn’t do a good enough job letting the people who care know their plans.
Disclosure: I live in the LA area, and no longer care abut the NFL since there isn’t any team here to root for.
5. anonymous | December 1st, 2007 at 9:33 am
Someone was nice enough to make the game available on the TVU Player.
6. Anon | December 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 am
Are you saying Bryant Gumbel WASN’T on the web feed? By God, I wish I’d watched that instead of the NFL Network feed, which was simulcast on KDFI-my27 in Dallas.
Gumbel kept calling the Cowboys “The Packers” and the quarterback “Rick” Romo.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement for the masses to sign up for the NFL network– in fact, it looked like a colossal waste of money. Plus, their graphics sucked.
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