bennyZA
Bluelighter
I follow 3/4 major sports (I dont follow the NBA), but I'm a huge 49ers fan and a MASSIVE SF Giants fan... How am I supposed to get along when i move to Australia? Any websites with bars or sports clubs for American expats?
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Americans Abroad - How to live without Baseball, Football, Hockey, and Basketball
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KevinKostner
Bluelighter
You can stream most of them...there's an ESPN app on Xbox 360. I've noticed it's somewhat limited. I'm guessing Australia also has digital cable packages with all the American sports.
bennyZA
Bluelighter
But what about watching with others... I'm going to be sad...
Busty St Clare
Ex-Bluelighter
One HD is a free to air digital sports channel that shows on average 4-5 NFL games a week. All live from 4.30am through to lunchtime. They will often replay them later at night. Each week you will also get 1-2 MLB games, also live, as well as at least 4-5 NBA games (although due to contracts their play off coverage is poor). You don't get much of a say in what is shown but considering it as available on regular free to air tv, it is often better than what you could access in the states.
If you decide to get pay tv/cable it will cost about $70=100/month and you will get pretty much anything you want on 5-6 sports channels, including espn. Foxsports has 3 channels and will show most NFL, NBA and MLB games live during the day as local sports for obvious reasons aren't on then. If it is a weekday, and there isn't a local event on, most pubs are more than happy to tune the television to what ever you want. I particularly enjoy Mondays at the pub, steak and beer with lunch and 2-3 NFL games while I sit in the beer garden, soaking up the summer sun (that's right mother fuckers, summer football).
Australia is a sporting country. They don't just have a single football in winter, there are 4 major codes that a lot of people will follow. It is nothing for me to spend a a weekend watching NBA Friday lunchtime, Rugby union, rugby league and Aussie rules, with some English premier league or Italian Serie A thrown in, pretty much non stop through to Sunday afternoon. You can't really compare America's insular sporting habits to the rest of the world. If you can bet on it, it will be shown live, with plenty of people far more knowledgeable than your average water cooler jockey back home in the States.
If you decide to get pay tv/cable it will cost about $70=100/month and you will get pretty much anything you want on 5-6 sports channels, including espn. Foxsports has 3 channels and will show most NFL, NBA and MLB games live during the day as local sports for obvious reasons aren't on then. If it is a weekday, and there isn't a local event on, most pubs are more than happy to tune the television to what ever you want. I particularly enjoy Mondays at the pub, steak and beer with lunch and 2-3 NFL games while I sit in the beer garden, soaking up the summer sun (that's right mother fuckers, summer football).
Australia is a sporting country. They don't just have a single football in winter, there are 4 major codes that a lot of people will follow. It is nothing for me to spend a a weekend watching NBA Friday lunchtime, Rugby union, rugby league and Aussie rules, with some English premier league or Italian Serie A thrown in, pretty much non stop through to Sunday afternoon. You can't really compare America's insular sporting habits to the rest of the world. If you can bet on it, it will be shown live, with plenty of people far more knowledgeable than your average water cooler jockey back home in the States.
Shimmer.Fade
Bluelighter
I imagine Germany is way different than Australia, and american football and soccer are the only two sports that I watch. However, if worst comes to worst and you have to catch a certain game myp2p.eu is a good place to go (however, the quality ranges from ok to terrible). Other than that you could check out the ESPN offerings which I know are good for college sports. There are probably also some satellite offerings I would imagine. I live off of very little money, so for me it can be a little pricey. Naturally, I don't have to do too much to watch soccer here =P.
Heya axl =). I feel for your Buckeyes man =\. I hope that the situation works out the best it can!
Heya axl =). I feel for your Buckeyes man =\. I hope that the situation works out the best it can!
Yea I know a website where you can stream live American TV, I'll find it later and post it here. But you probably won't have to resort to watching on your computer, when I was in Barcelona for a year I found a really cool Irish sports bar that played a lot of American sports. I'm sure there is something like that in Australia.