Welcome,
@Worsey!
I grew up on the northern Atlantic coast of the U.S.A., a continent away from Seattle, but I've been a Seahawks fan since 1976.
I have been living in Brazil since June of 2000. I have had the international version of NFL Game Pass since 2018. Before that, from 2012 to 2017, most of the games I saw were on pirate streams. NFL Game Pass is great, and I recommend it highly. However, there aren't any game blackouts in Brazil, and I understand there are some in the U.K., so YMMV. The quality of the streams on NFL Game Pass is spectacular, I can watch any game I want (or RedZone), and I enjoy getting the broadcasts from the U.S.A. with commercials. Plus I get NFL Network, access to a library of games, and All-22.
The video quality on the pirate streams back in 2012-2017 often left a bit (or more) to be desired, and sometimes the stream would just die, and any of my neighbors within earshot would get a free lesson in intermediate English invective as I tried to get back to the game I had been watching. I'm definitely much better off now with NFL Game Pass.
But there's one thing about the pirate streams I actually miss. A bunch of them came from Sky Sports UK, and I really liked the in-studio crew. I learned things from Reinebold's presentations of key plays, I enjoyed the discussions, and I think my favorite NFL journalist in the world is an Englishman, Neil Reynolds. Reynolds clearly cares about the sport and has obviously been watching for a long time. I loved when he made references to players and games I saw in the 1980s and 1990s. I think the people in the studio on Sky Sports UK are better than their counterparts on the U.S. networks. I wish I could get the pregame, halftime, and postgame broadcasts from Sky Sports UK instead of the ones from the U.S. networks.
Heh... Stormbringers. I snicker at that because I read Michael Moorcock's Elric books when I was an adolescent nerd.
