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Do you have NFL League pass? Do you go to a sports bar? See the game live?

Usually I catch most everything streaming on my laptop for nothing....but this season I am in a remote are and can't stream games so, I figure it will cost me around $30 bucks per game to go to the bar.
In Dec and Jan my remoteness will increase this season. I will be over 90 miles from the closest place to watch the games. That will be a bit more spending...but if they're playing good ball, it'll be worth it to plan my trips to town for game days.

What's your habit cost you?

The Breeze wrote:Do you have NFL League pass? Do you go to a sports bar? See the game live?

Usually I catch most everything streaming on my laptop for nothing....but this season I am in a remote are and can't stream games so, I figure it will cost me around $30 bucks per game to go to the bar.
In Dec and Jan my remoteness will increase this season. I will be over 90 miles from the closest place to watch the games. That will be a bit more spending...but if they're playing good ball, it'll be worth it to plan my trips to town for game days.

What's your habit cost you?

This year, it will cost me $6.25 per week plus whatever I spend on food and beverages when I see the Vikes play at Soldier Field (my ticket was free thanks to a friend) and if I go out to see any games at sports bars.

The $6.25 is for NFL Game Rewind and NFL Audio Pass, both of which were well worth the money last season..

The rewind is a streaming deal or on TV? and how soon after the game is over til it's available? $6.25 is a great deal, and I assume you get the audio live.

The Breeze wrote:The rewind is a streaming deal or on TV? and how soon after the game is over til it's available?

It's streaming and games are available the next day, sometimes even quicker. If I remember correctly, the rule is that they don't become available until after the Sunday night game is over. I managed to watch at least one Vikes game late on Sunday night last season but usually, I would just check for them first thing the next morning and they'd be there (as early as 5:30 or 6 AM CST).

$6.25 is a great deal, and I assume you get the audio live.

That's correct and you can listen to any game and choose the radio broadcast of the home team or the away team. The audio pass along is just $29.95 for every game of the regular season and the I paid $69.95 for the Game Rewind package that comes with coaches film (which is really fun to watch when you want to diagnose what happened on a play). There are cheaper options available.

Overall, it's well worth the money to me, although I wish I could just pay the $6.25 per week to watch the games live on TV.

That's a great deal. I'll check it out for next season. Maybe the audio for this season....should be able to get that on my phone. Thanks for the data~

See the _______ Talk Forum (that cannot be named) for how you can download tapes of games. Typically they're posted within 4-8 hours after a game finishes, and usually in at least two resolutions (different sized file downloads).

I spend a LOT less on Vikings games than on the NFL season in general. I almost always go out for Sunday Night football, and often Monday or Thursday night as well.

With most Vikings games on at 11AM here in Colorado, I find it hard to drag myself to a Sports Bar at that hour. If I do, I seldom drink alcohol until the second half. I may also have lunch or breakfast. Typically we're talking $20-30 a few times per year. I always go out for night games, which doesn't require going to a "sports" bar, per se, and I know a lot of bartenders in town, so that seldom runs more that $20.

Great question...Real Coca Cola in bottles, Dr. P, Crush and Sprite, ice and hot buffalo wings every week at my parents' place. The biggest cost is having to sit through cowboys games since it's the home team.

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indianation65 wrote:Great question...Real Coca Cola in bottles, Dr. P, Crush and Sprite, ice and hot buffalo wings every week at my parents' place. The biggest cost is having to sit through cowboys games since it's the home team.

That's a high price to pay!

indianation65 wrote:Great question...Real Coca Cola in bottles, Dr. P, Crush and Sprite, ice and hot buffalo wings every week at my parents' place. The biggest cost is having to sit through cowboys games since it's the home team.

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lol that Cowboy thing is a heavy price to pay~

What does my Viking habit cost me???

Perhaps my soul, for it being ripped out year after year . \

Outside of that, not a lot. I live in Mankato, and used to get the Fox channel from the cities in HD, but then Mankato started broadcasting a SD fox channel. Two years ago they started enforcing DirecTV to only let me get the local fox channel so 2 years of SD Vikings . But this year I think they're finally in HD again.

Time.

Time and agony......I forgot about these costs when I axed the question~

The Breeze wrote:Do you have NFL League pass? Do you go to a sports bar? See the game live?

Usually I catch most everything streaming on my laptop for nothing....but this season I am in a remote are and can't stream games so, I figure it will cost me around $30 bucks per game to go to the bar.
In Dec and Jan my remoteness will increase this season. I will be over 90 miles from the closest place to watch the games. That will be a bit more spending...but if they're playing good ball, it'll be worth it to plan my trips to town for game days.

What's your habit cost you?

Well i'm guessing you were looking for an actual dollar amount per week/month/year. That is as immeasurable as the heart in all of us. For some, i guess you can compute such things. I would guess for the rest of us it can't be computed in dollars. I can tell you that if, and when, they do win it, I probably will stop watching football. I just can't afford it anymore. (flesh, emotion, monetarily).

Most weeks are quite cheap since it only is the cost of NFL Gamepass($149 for a season I think, which is about $3 / week).
But then there's the weeks(two this season) when I fly halfway across the world to see the Vikes... Not cheap!

Not sure I want to do the math to figure out an average...

Depends I usually get the Season Ticket on Direct TV

This year I am flying in to the home opener with my youngest

I would say anywhere from a few dollars a week to five or six dollars a week