Redskins in the UK

silent1903 · Post by **silent1903** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 7:42 am

Having been a Redskin fan since the days of Jack Pardee, in the year 1 BG (Before Gibbs), I have never before been more excited about the prospects for the next season. However, being stuck in the UK, we have limited opportunities to actually see the Skins games. Our satellite service, Sky Sports, shows two selected games back-to-back each Sunday evening, and another station, Chennel 5, shows the Monday night game late Tuesday night. We didn't get to see the Skins much last year. But.....I WANT TO SEE THE REDSKINS!!!
Therefore, my question is, does anyone know of any way at all (eg unknown-to-me satellite/cable tranmissions, anything!) I can get to see the second coming each week here in the UK???

Britskin · Post by **Britskin** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 7:53 am

Unfortunately, I don`t know of anything else. However, I think that with the return of Joe Gibbs and the moves that the Redskins are making this year that Sky will feature the Redskins more often this coming season. Perhaps if all UK based Skins fans lobby Sky about this they will get the message!

silent1903 · Post by **silent1903** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:32 am

Britskin wrote:Unfortunately, I don`t know of anything else. However, I think that with the return of Joe Gibbs and the moves that the Redskins are making this year that Sky will feature the Redskins more often this coming season. Perhaps if all UK based Skins fans lobby Sky about this they will get the message!

Well I know the producer of the show, but I don't think he follows the Skins, nor am I sure if he has any influence on the choice of game. Lobbying is a good idea though!
I get frustrated because obviously most people on here see the Skins week in, week out, and know players' performances in detail, know the bums, know what a player is worth. We saw them, what, twice last season?

ferryrich · Post by **ferryrich** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 10:59 am

With a bit of luck, NFL will follow MLB and transmit all the games live on the web. I know they did that with just radio this season, so they MIGHT up the ante and go for AV next season.

MLB's coverage is really good. You can see almost any game live/as live/highlights for about $80 for the season - £40 in todays money.

I'll probably be signing up for the baseball again this year and HOPING that NFL follows suit.

UK coverage of both sports is limited and biased towards a few favoured teams

silent1903 · Post by **silent1903** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 11:10 am

ferryrich wrote:With a bit of luck, NFL will follow MLB and transmit all the games live on the web. I know they did that with just radio this season, so they MIGHT up the ante and go for AV next season.

MLB's coverage is really good. You can see almost any game live/as live/highlights for about $80 for the season - £40 in todays money.

I'll probably be signing up for the baseball again this year and HOPING that NFL follows suit.

UK coverage of both sports is limited and biased towards a few favoured teams

Thanks for the tip, Ferryrich. Would this be through nfl.com or would there be another website to subscribe to? Please keep this thread posted if you find out anything else.
I agree with you about the coverage being biased...mind you, when the Skins were doing well back in the 80's we saw a lot more of them!

noshirtforyou · Post by **noshirtforyou** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 12:46 pm

you can get a radio season pass, not sure on the price but its either on nfl.com or espn.com i'm not sure

dieselhog · Post by **dieselhog** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 3:22 pm

Are you fellas part of the Washington Redskins UK Supporters Club.

For £15 a year you get better and more in depth Skins coverage than I've seen elsewhere in the form of the Redskins Review magazine.

Even Mikey T (Boss Hog) writes a regular column for us.

fezzik · Post by **fezzik** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 3:56 pm

Well I also know that Redskins.com have a Media section with each weeks game highlights. When I don't get to see a game I will usually check it out because it gives more highlights then a Sports show.

Also NFL's Season Pass might not include the Redskins radio feed of the game. I know before it went to a paid service last year I listen to the vistors radio guys and not WJFK's team.

silent1903 · Post by **silent1903** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 5:42 pm

fezzik wrote:Well I also know that Redskins.com have a Media section with each weeks game highlights. When I don't get to see a game I will usually check it out because it gives more highlights then a Sports show.

Also NFL's Season Pass might not include the Redskins radio feed of the game. I know before it went to a paid service last year I listen to the vistors radio guys and not WJFK's team.

I guess I'm asking too much. I want to see the whole game, from first snap to last, not just highlights. I also used to listen to the visitors radio commentary, but again, not the same as seeing the game on tv.

Manchester_Redskin · Post by **Manchester_Redskin** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:31 am

Once we start winning more games this season I should think the chances of SKy showing our matches will increase, that is unless that Pittsburgh fan Halling has any say in the matter , he never has a good word to say about the skins and Dan Synder in particular ... its a pity Sky dont cut him

hkHog · Post by **hkHog** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:53 pm

I used to have the same problem. I remember way back (15-20yrs) when they used to show games on Channel 4 during actual viewing hours, not at like midnight or 2 or whatever. If you have a multisystem VCR and TV you can get someone to send you NTSC tapes and then you can watch them. Otherwise, they will have to be converted to PAL. I used to live in India and I got TV shows and good O's and 'Skins games mailed to me on a monthly basis. They got ESPN international about a year before I left and they would show two games a week on that. Quite a lot of 'Skins games too but then they had Johnson and Davis and were a fairly good team. I don't think Sky has ESPN though but there might be a way to get it. The only way to get every game though is to get a friend to tape it.

hkHog · Post by **hkHog** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:59 pm

Actually, I had an idea. If the NFL doesn't do web broadcasts, someone could record the games on their computer and compress them with DIVX and then they could be IMed. They would be big files (~800MB or so) but it takes out the whole NTSC to PAL conversion which can be really expensive.

ferryrich · Post by **ferryrich** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:24 pm

Sounds like a good idea...
Any volunteers??