Any Sirius users here (NFL coverage questions)

[iwannadie]

I've had sirius for a few years now in my XJ and online, I keep saying I want to get a home kit for NFL games. They block NFL from the internet player and I am rarely in my car to listen to games.

Is the NFL coverage worth while? Do they still play every game with home and away broadcasts? I listened to it a few times briefly in my XJ and it seemed like it had a lot of commercials, almost worse than tv coverage is that just how it is? Any pros/cons that some fans could offer up?

I am sick of watching cardinals football since it's all they play here, I want to at least listen to other games ; ) . I am not hardcore enough to get a dish either, and I don't want to listen to local broadcast through a website so sirius is my option.

 

[RedHeep]

The sirius coverage is home and away broadcasts for all the single games, i.e. MNF and the sunday night game. Most times, they'll have home and away broadcasts for all of the games, but sometimes there isn't enough channels, so they switch at halftime to the other teams broadcasters. That doesn't happen too often though.

The commercials you're hearing is because when the game goes to commercial on TV or on the local broadcast, Sirius doesn't own the rights to also broadcast those commercials on their network. So they switch to commercials that are sponsored by Sirius.

You'll get the same number of commercial breaks if you were watching TV or listening to the game on terrestrial radio.

If I'm in the car on a sunday and I can't watch the game (I also have the NFL package on Directv) then it's nice to be able to listen, especially to guys who are from your team's side of the stadium.

If I'm at home and I end up in the garage, I put the player in the boombox and listen to whatever game is interesting. Either way I think it's worth it. But I'm a pretty serious professional football fan. I'm usually watching on TV. I have sirius because I like the music, the sports games are a by product.

 

[iwannadie]

Kinda sucks on the commercials I did remember hearing the same ones over and over. I guess they only have so many sirius commercials they can pick from to run.

I think I may just take the plunge and buy the home kit, it's like 37 bucks from amazon.

 

[RedHeep]

If you're not partial to the home kit (you're still getting stereo sound even if you plug it in to a really nice 5.1/7.1/9.1 receiver) you might as well buy one of the boomboxes.

I take mine everywhere. Campground, garage, the deck on the back of the house. When I built my storage shed, it was on all day for 3 weekends in the backyard. Never have to worry about reception and always has your favorite stations. Works on AC power and if you put batteries in it. I've had a set of batteries last me 8-10 hours.

You'll be into it for another 50 bucks, but the portability is worth it. Especially if you go wheeling/camping more than a couple times a year. When the radio quit in the jeep halfway home from Moab, we plugged the boombox in and used it inside the jeep.

 

[iwannadie]

I need something with the antenna run outdoors though, the boombox would still need an antenna outside. I may as well plug into my nice stereo. I do like the idea of a portable radio but for this I think I need just the antenna/dock kit...

 

[RedHeep]

I need something with the antenna run outdoors though, the boombox would still need an antenna outside. I may as well plug into my nice stereo. I do like the idea of a portable radio but for this I think I need just the antenna/dock kit...

Extra antennas are cheap. You can run one outside and plug it into the boombox when you want to listen to it. You'd just use the box as a docking station.

I think you'll figure out the same thing I did. I started out with a radio in the jeep that had an add on box for sirius. Really nice, sounded good, but the only time I listened to it was 30 minutes back and forth to work.

So I bought a portable docking station. Sound not as good, but I can swap it between vehicles and take it into the house and plug it into the stereo.

So then I bought a home dock. Plugged it up, but now the only two places I could listen was in the car or sitting in front of the tv. So since I'd rather be visually and audibly stimulated in front of my 50 inch plasma in my living room, I never turned it on or bothered to take it out of the jeep.

Then I bought a boombox. It mostly hangs out in the garage, but travels to campgrounds, goes in the backyard and I take it to work. I can listen wherever I want.

You'll start out at the top, but eventually you'll end up at the bottom of the story methinks.

If you have a satellite dish, they make kits to put the antenna on the dish and transmit the signal through your RG-6 cable so you don't have to run another cable in the wall.

 

[iwannadie]

I am liking the boombox idea now more and more. I am not finding them for under 120ish though. That is way more than I want to spend, the $37 was pushing my limits as it was ha.

 

[iwannadie]

I guess used they are around 80 plus shipping, I hate buying something like that used for more than 50% of new cost though.