Not to mention the bears were uninvested in and perennial losers until the owners wanted to get various governments to buy a new stadium for them. So now that they are playing one location over another they found the ability to support the team they own but that will all be gone once they have convinced someplace to pay their bills. Im a chicago fan not a bears fan. eff these wealthy team owners taking advantage of local pride.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They're doing the same thing for the NHL, and the terrible part is Prime's video is usually way better than Sportsnet. Still cheaper to sail the seas though!

[–] mmhmm@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Ive never found a reliable solution for sports

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I definitely didn't set up a raspberry pi 4 with Kodi, and got the addons "mad titan sports" and "the loop" to watch live sports.

[–] three@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

Based janky bullshit enjoyer.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

Fmhy

There is always a solution.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 weeks ago

Antenna for as many games as I can, piracy for the rest.

[–] HejMedDig@feddit.dk 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've heard Ten yard tracker is good for handegg games

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Rbtv77 has been exceptionally stable for me this year. It's a sideloaded android app, works on TVs too.

There's the big 4 sports plus soccer, but there's also a ton of international niche sports. Like I fire it up and catch cricket, handball, rugby, half court basketball, volleyball, table tennis, billiards, days long car races, whatever. Some of the games have an audience of like a few dozen people and aren't broadcast in English but only if they're international.

[–] icerink@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Where can I download Rbtv77 from a safe source?

[–] HolidayGreed@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the tip-off. Not heard of it, it will check it out.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Same. I was annoyed enough by unreliable streams that I looked into paying. It would be an absurd price for less than half the games. And that's assuming their stream even worked, because last time I tried the Comcast and NESN official streams they just straight up wouldn't play.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Up here in Canadia for full NHL access (bullshit blackouts), it went from $250 to $340 a year and stream quality seemed to get worse somehow. Almost every game I'd have to log back in to the app and restart the game, but it would automatically go to live (I liked to wait a bit and skip commercials.

The joy of cancelling that shitty service was sublime!

[–] qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

This season I've been watching the recaps on YouTube a few hours after the game ends. Free, no ads, and you are in and out in under 20 mins. I might not be able to sit through a 3 hour football game on TV again. Got so many hours of my life back this year

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago

Seems like this was inevitable for corpo sports.

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

It was the same thing on Christmas. All the games on a pay service.

[–] stevo887@lemmings.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

A little late here and I can't confirm if they showed the playoff game but all Thursday night Amazon games are available on the Amazon Prime Twitch Channel and Twitch accounts are free.