best sports package

Quick question for you sport junkies- who has the best overall value for football packages, Dish Network or Direct TV? All I really care about is some basic local channels and good coverage of west coast college and NFL games without paying a crapload each month. Your thoughts?

Quick question for you sport junkies- who has the best overall value for football packages, Dish Network or Direct TV? All I really care about is some basic local channels and good coverage of west coast college and NFL games without paying a crapload each month. Your thoughts?

DirecTv is the only way to go. If you want all the NFL games you have to buy the NFL Sunday Ticket & only DirecTv has it. They have a special going on right now to where you buy the Sunday Ticket & get their best channel channel package for free for about 5 months I think. Plus by having their best package you will get the SPORTS PACK wich includes all the FOX Regional channels & you will get a ton of college football plus what you get on regular channels like ESPN, ABC, ect.

If all you want is some West Coast NFL and good college coverage, if you live in the West, I think you would be cool with plain old Dish Network without even having a sports package~

With Dish, I get two NFL games every Sunday, sometimes 3, then Monday Night Football, etc. And most of the good college games are on Network or ESPN/ESPN2. I think you can catch other college games on the regional Fox networks too... :2cents

Thanx for the input Houghton n Doc.

I now live in the east so I believe the only way I can watch any of my football teams is now through a sports package like Doc was talking about.... right?

The only issue I'm trying to avoid is getting that great promo rate for only 5-6 months but still have to pay jacked up prices for the remainder of a forced 2-year contract. What are my options if I just want a contract of 1 year or less? I wouldn't mind a longer contract so long as I'm not jumping from $50/mo to $90/mo at another 18 mos. Keeping it simple, I only really care about watching the 49ers, Chargers, and USC.... albeit on the east coast. Yup, that ought to get some people excited!

Thanx for the input Houghton n Doc.

I now live in the east so I believe the only way I can watch any of my football teams is now through a sports package like Doc was talking about.... right?

The only issue I'm trying to avoid is getting that great promo rate for only 5-6 months but still have to pay jacked up prices for the remainder of a forced 2-year contract. What are my options if I just want a contract of 1 year or less? I wouldn't mind a longer contract so long as I'm not jumping from $50/mo to $90/mo at another 18 mos. Keeping it simple, I only really care about watching the 49ers, Chargers, and USC.... albeit on the east coast. Yup, that ought to get some people excited!

You can go to Directv.com & go thru the order process online by yourself & pick what you would want as far as recievers, dvr's, channel packages, ect. & it will tell you the price & you don't have to order it since your not entering a cc number.
My brother got the same seal they are offering now last year & after the deal was over he dropped the premier package & just went with the next bext package wich is great. The premier is all the channels including all the pay channels like HBO, Showtime, ect. When you drop down to the next one you lose all your pay channels & that's what my bro did.
But just research it all & get what you think is right for you. But Directv is the ONLY provider that offers the NFL package & you get all the games.
Good Luck whatever you choose :hithere: