How To Watch NFL Games | Best 5 Ways To Watch NFL Games

The Liga Nacional Football ( NFL for their stands for National Football League ) is considered the most important football league in the world. The regular season begins on Thursday after Labor Day in the United States - Labor Day, which is the first Monday in September - (an exception occurs in the 2012 season, which begins on Wednesday, due to a presidential speech scheduled on Thursday). On the official NFL website, you can find all kinds of information about the teams, repetitions, results and game schedules.

For fans of the game as well as for fans of a specific team, the start of the NFL season is part of the flavors and colors that fall comes within the northern hemisphere. For seventeen weeks, plus five in the postseason, following American football games has importance directly proportional to the level of hobby you have.

However, following all the games you want is not always possible: zone restrictions, blockages or simply lack of access to a television, could prevent you from following the broadcasts of your favorite teams.

 When looking for a page to watch games on the Internet you should exercise great caution, there are many links with viruses or malware or they even charge you for giving you links to services that are free. As a general rule: never install software that promises to watch live streams. Even many pages work as hubs of supposed live TV channels and all they do is take you to pages with scareware or, worse, ransomware.  

Here is how to watch NFL games five reliable options on the Internet to watch NFL football games on the Internet:

       How To Watch NFL Games?

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NFL Game Pass

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There are currently two modalities: NFL International Game Pass and NFL Domestic Game Pass. On the other hand, NFL Audio Pass is no longer a service offered to fans.

1. NFL International Game Pass
Only available outside the United States and its territories, Mexico, Bermuda, Bahamas and Antigua, NFL Game Pass is the service offered by the official NFL website and is the most complete and most reliable, but also the most expensive for the season ( $ 304.99 USD for Season Plus or $ 244.99 USD per Season, for one season). If you want to include the postseason games - including the Super Bowl -, you must purchase Season Plus. If you live outside the restricted geographic area and want to continue the NFL season, don't doubt that this is your best option. Among its services, the most prominent are:

You can watch, in high definition (HD), 65 preseason games and 256 regular season games live or on-demand, plus you can watch 10 postseason games and the Super Bowl on-demand.
For the Super Bowl, which is on-demand, the famous commercials and the halftime show are also included.
DVR functions for live games: pause, return and forward.
Available for mobile devices, for details you can go to the official mobile page.
You can watch NFL Redzone, which is broadcast without commercials in which you see only the best actions of Sunday's games (live).
Condensed games: You can see complete condensed games in approximately 30 minutes.
Files: you can see repetitions of all the games that have been carried out from 2009 to date, in high definition.
Coaches film, which shows you exclusive angles of plays. This includes that you can draw (diagram) plays and share them with your friends (only on iPad).
Important plays: you can see the most important plays on demand.
Game downloads: so you can watch games on your iOS devices (iPhone and iPad).
2. NFL Domestic Game Pass

This NFL Game Pass mode is available in the United States and its territories, Mexico, Bermuda, Bahamas, and Antigua, however, it only gives you access to live preseason games and archived regular-season games.

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NFL Sunday Ticket TV

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NFL Sunday Ticket is the service that DIRECTV provides so you can watch any of the games broadcast on Sunday, except for the Sunday night game, as well as those on Monday night, Thursday and Saturday. Note that with companies affiliated with DIRECTV outside the United States, conditions and services may vary or not exist.

For non-DIRECTV subscribers
Available only in the United States, NFL Sunday Ticket TV is the new variant of what was previously known as NFL Sunday Ticket To Go, specifically aimed at users who do not have DIRECTV service (who cannot hire it due to restrictions of type of housing or obstructions of the satellite signal) or living in some areas of metropolitan areas. This service is also available for university students with four-year programs. The best option is to use the button to verify eligibility on its official website.

The subscription price for NFL Sunday Ticket TV varies based on which devices you want to use to watch the games. 1) game consoles (PS3, PS4 and Xbox One) only, 2) mobile devices (Android, iPhone or Windows Phone) and computer or 3) all of the above (service known as MAX).

Among its services, the most prominent are:

Sunday games (excluding Sunday nights) live in high definition.
You can follow your favorite players.
Game statistics at your disposal, instantly.
It includes Red Zone Channel, which is the transmission of offensive annotation series on the same channel, live (MAX only).


For DIRECTV subscribers
There is NFL Sunday Ticket Max, which is a version of the service that is given for television, with the variant that “Max” allows you to watch the games on your computer or on your mobile device (prior installation of an application). NFL Sunday Ticket Max is a service for DIRECTV customers only. Among its services, the most prominent are:

Games in high definition (HD) live or on-demand.
It includes Red Zone Channel, which is the transmission of the offensive annotation series on the same channel, live.
You can watch up to 8 games simultaneously.
You can follow up to 20 players, those of your choice.
Game statistics at your disposal, instantly.
You can watch summary games in about 30 minutes.

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Sunday night and Monday night games

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The North American television network NBC will broadcast the Sunday night games live on the Internet with its service called Sunday Night All Access. This free service is available only for the United States and consists of a high definition transmission that offers you four angles of the game, in addition to PVR functions.

As for Monday night games, you can watch them on the ESPN service called WatchESPN, which is available only in the United States and only for those who are subscribed to a television service that is on the WatchESPN affiliate list.

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You can search for American football broadcasts on Vaughnlive.tv, which is a page that has live broadcast channels, some of which are television channel broadcasts and perhaps some are going through the game that interests you. Something interesting about this page is that it has several channels in Spanish, so if you're lucky, you could even watch the broadcast in Spanish. Considers that, given the nature of this page, the quality may not be the best and the transmission could be interrupted without prior notice, however, the quality in most channels seems to be acceptable.

To search for a game it is recommended that you search through all the available channels since the page does not have search options and does not have a specific channel for sports. Although going through all the channels sounds like an exhaustive task, in practice it is not so much, since you can see an image that gives you a clue of what is being transmitted on each channel. Of course, it takes patience and luck. 

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Try your local television

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Sometimes television networks have live broadcasts on the Internet, although it is almost certain that the availability of transmissions is subject to your geolocation. I recommend that you visit the official website of your local television and check if they have a live broadcast to watch football games.