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If it is just your buddies coming over, why would ANY of them tell a cop anything??

Seriously, the Sunday Ticket, even at $300 would be well worth it. If you were forced to go to a bar to watch the game every Sunday it would add up to at least that.

Lets just say that the Dolphins had 3 prime time games in a given season. That would leave 13 games on Sundays.

Bar prices

Food (Burger,fries) -$7
Drinks (pop)-$4 Or beer- $15
So at a bare minimum, you are talking about $11 per sunday. Not counting a tip.
$11X16=$176.
Right now the Sunday Ticket is $249 for new subscribers and $199 for existing customers. You will spend $70 more (if you already have the dish and receiver) you get the Sunday Ticket. Thats roughly $4.35 more each week then you would spend at a bar. Once you add in your snacks and drinks each Sunday at home, you can make that roughly $20 a week more.
So.......you just have to decide if it is worth it to watch EVERY Dolphins game from the comfort of your own place with full control over the remote and noise levels. No smoke, no Patriots, Jets, or Bills fans. No rival patrons yelling for the television to be changed to the fourth quarter of the Broncos/Raiders game. Its worth every penny to me.
 
I have had Dish Network forever, and I really like it. I also have a DirecTV installed at my father's house (we watch the Fins together) for Sunday Ticket. In the past, you could buy just Sunday Ticket, but I have heard this is changing this year? Anyone know if that is true? I am considering dropping Dish for DirecTV this summer so I can get a Tivo and Sunday Ticket. The current DirecTV deal gives you the Tivo for $50, but you have to pay a couple dollars more a month to use the Tivo service. Is it worth it?
 
bryancox51fan said:
I just called and am having the dish put in Wednesday, the guy I talked to said that every single game is in HD, I was going to get the HD package anyway- this is goin to be awesome, I cant wait to see the new offense.
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EVERY GAME IS NOT IN HD!!!
 
jaketaylor said:
If it is just your buddies coming over, why would ANY of them tell a cop anything??

Seriously, the Sunday Ticket, even at $300 would be well worth it. If you were forced to go to a bar to watch the game every Sunday it would add up to at least that.

Lets just say that the Dolphins had 3 prime time games in a given season. That would leave 13 games on Sundays.

Bar prices

Food (Burger,fries) -$7
Drinks (pop)-$4 Or beer- $15
So at a bare minimum, you are talking about $11 per sunday. Not counting a tip.
$11X16=$176.
Right now the Sunday Ticket is $249 for new subscribers and $199 for existing customers. You will spend $70 more (if you already have the dish and receiver) you get the Sunday Ticket. Thats roughly $4.35 more each week then you would spend at a bar. Once you add in your snacks and drinks each Sunday at home, you can make that roughly $20 a week more.
So.......you just have to decide if it is worth it to watch EVERY Dolphins game from the comfort of your own place with full control over the remote and noise levels. No smoke, no Patriots, Jets, or Bills fans. No rival patrons yelling for the television to be changed to the fourth quarter of the Broncos/Raiders game. Its worth every penny to me.
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It's long story but here's the Readers Digest version. Apparently, the local bar, and I do mean THE local bar had ponied-up the $$$ to get it too. A couple of guys get loose-lipped after a few during the week. The owner calls the cops and as it turned out, one of the cop's brother-in-laws was at the house on the opening weekend. Friend of a friend kinda thing. Guess that was all they needed. Luckily, everybody was over 21 or my buddy would be in jail.

I couldn't come in under $30 in Cleveland. You had to get there by 12:30 to get your game on and keep spending $$$ or they'd switch your game off. I had one place cut the Phins game at the start of the 3rd , after I switched to soda and my 2 friends left. Gee, I wonder why they went under? If they got enough complaints from other people, especially people in large groups, you'd be off too. This was pretty much the MO of all the bar managers, especially the high volume "sports" bar chains. We finally found a place that even let us have the sound on but then the next season I got DirecTV. We stop by for at least one "road" game a season.
 
volk said:
I have had Dish Network forever, and I really like it. I also have a DirecTV installed at my father's house (we watch the Fins together) for Sunday Ticket. In the past, you could buy just Sunday Ticket, but I have heard this is changing this year? Anyone know if that is true? I am considering dropping Dish for DirecTV this summer so I can get a Tivo and Sunday Ticket. The current DirecTV deal gives you the Tivo for $50, but you have to pay a couple dollars more a month to use the Tivo service. Is it worth it?
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First, if you talk to a supervisor at Diretv and complain enough, they will still let you get JUST the Sunday Ticket. They try very hard to discourage it, but they will still gladly accept your money for JUST the Ticket.
Tivo is well worth it. You no longer have to be a slave to your remote when recording games. You know, PAUSE during commercials......OOPS , missed hitting the record button when the game comes back on......
Plus, you can record the Dolphins game while watching it and record another game or program at the same time. Thats a cool feature. My friend has four Tivo Directv receivers and activates the other three just during football season. He records a ton of games and is set on his football fix for the entire offseason. I think he told me that he records eight to 10 games every week.
 
I had DirecTV for about three years and it is much better than cable.....I never have ordered the Sunday ticket....I was wondering if you are able to hook up several tv's and watch more than one game at once? What I prefer about sportsbars is I can drive about a mile from my house to a bar called the Overtime and they show every game on 30 inch sets, and they also have four big screens....they also have the best food....I don't mind spending $10-$20 and being able to see all the games, plus we usually have about 60 Dolphin fans there...the only negative is the cigarette smoke but this place has powerful fans and keeps the doors open. I just prefer watching football games with a lot of other Phins fans cuz you want to celebrate with people when our Phins score/win. :)
 
tivo is greatness
hd is greatness
NFL Sunday ticket is greatness
directv is greatness

what more do you need to know ? If you don't get the phins on your local stations, then order Sunday ticket now !
 
The only bad thing about the DirecTV HD package is there is only 7 or 8 channels in HD besides the NFL superfan package. I talked to a rep the other day about it. They mentioned that maybe this winter they'll have like 150 channels in HD. So I guess I'll wait to get the HD package. DirecTV, TiVo and the Sunday ticket can't live without it.
 
Living in Canada is awesome for NFL Sunday Ticket.

I pay 80dollars canadian for the full season. It's not as popular up here so they can't really overcharge.

It works out to be just under 5 dollars a sunday for all the games can't go wrong with that at all.
 
TIVO is great.

I don't get the package, I live in South Florida and we get the Dolphins every week anyway and in HD with my cable package. I don't really care to watch other games when the Dolphins are on, so paying for the package would be a waste for me.
 
Iv'e had Directv since day one and it's been great. I don't know how $20 could have lasted you on a Sunday. With my friends at the local sports bar, it was nothing to go thru $40-50. When the Sunday ticket came out, my wife bought it for me (and still does) so that I would stay home and watch the Dolphins. Now I have a new 60" Hd TV, and HDTV package,And love every minute of the football season. My wife even brings me my beer. It's true that not all of the games are in HD, but enough of them are. I'm wondering since Miami had such a bad season last year, if they might not be in HD that much?
 
i'd get it but I use comcast to connect to the internet and I belive you have to have at least basic cable to be able to have cable modem. i don't think dsl is in my area and it's not as fast anyway. i have to suck it up and go to a watering hole.
 
templarwd said:
This is not a good idea. Legally, you can't charge anything , even at your own house. A friend of mine, back in PA, bought a new 57"HD plasma set and started to charge a cover to help make up some of the cost. He lives in this REALLY small town with 2 full time cops with nothing else to do. They got wind that he was charging admission and on the 4th Sunday, the local Barney Fife's showed up with a search warrant. Don't ask me how they got a judge to issue it but they got it. Maybe they told him he was a suspected terrorist and they were really watching Al-Jezzera. Anyway, they charged him under some public exhibition statute and whacked him for $500 + court cost.

I'm sure the laws vary from state to state. Just to be safe, don't use the word admission, use " voluntary donation ".
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Sounds like somebody got pizzed that they had to pay and reported it to the cops. Probably a friend or relative of somebody in the local govt, so it got more attention than it should.

Anyway, just don't make gameday open to the public....limit it to friends you trust, and make it clear that the 10 bucks is just to offset the cost of cleanup when they leave. Also make it clear that while the "donation" is voluntary, you have limited seating and really prefer to watch the game in company of those friends that are considerate enough to help you out with the cleaning costs.
 
jaketaylor said:
First, if you talk to a supervisor at Diretv and complain enough, they will still let you get JUST the Sunday Ticket. They try very hard to discourage it, but they will still gladly accept your money for JUST the Ticket.
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No they won't. Maybe when you did it a few years ago they would let you. But go ahead and try it now. They'll laugh at you.
 
Last year they had 4 or 5 games in HD for the 1 o'clock games and maybe 2 or 3 for the 4 o'clockers. Though if you listen to their new add with everyone singing and stuff they say "all games will be in HD", we'll see. I don't even bother calling DTV for answers, they don't even know. I'll tell you what though, isn't it tuff to turn to a game after watching one in HD! then go over to the other games. HUGE DROP OFF!
 
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