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BobH wrote:

This article is about a young man who is helping coach Lobos de Quito, described as Ecuador's first American football team. It appears they practice in Parque Carolina (I recognize the plane in one picture).

There are a few planes, as Bob knows, permanently in position in Parque la Carolina.聽 IMO, that's the way it should be -- quiet exhibition planes on display.聽

In the old days (pre-2013), before the new international airport opened in Tababela, Ecuador, the noise of planes coming in for a landing at the old airport every several minutes was a plague to us basketballers and other park-goers.聽 We're fortunate from a noise pollution point-of-view that the new airport is so far out of town.

Lobos -- Spanish for "wolves."

cccmedia in Quito

Edgenaples wrote:

As a college football junkie, I wake up early on Saturdays so that I can get everything done around the house, and be ready to watch GameDay at 9am.....start watching games at noon, after Lee Corso shows us which team he thinks will win and usually I'm still watching the west coast games past midnight. What are the chances that I can get all of the college games if I'm living in Cuenca ? Thanks !

I have a friend who watches a lot of college football online using .聽 聽 Very good bandwidth required.

cccmedia wrote:

Nards makes a good point about bandwidth, because you'll probably have to watch on a computer.

DirecTV, which televises 98 percent or more of NFL games here through its satellite service, does not show U.S. college contests before bowl season.

No one here sees "all the college games" because there are hundreds of them each fall weekend.

cccmedia in Quito

My friend watches it on a ROKU.聽 To watch on a ROKU after the trial period expires, you have to have a paid subscription.聽 Otherwise, you can get the free 8 channels using a laptop or PC.

Even with good bandwidth, I think there are times when the USTVnow servers get hit hard and buffering occurs. Using a laptop or PC offers the advantage it seems in that you can reduce the video quality using a menu, when bandwidth is limited.

Ryancito wrote:

With regard to watching games, mainly NFL, any Sport Planet restaurant is usually very good about putting it on their big screens on Sunday.聽 Just watched the Panthers Eagles game there last night.聽 Really good environment for games.

Thanks for the review on Sports Planet, Ryan.

I noticed several days ago (not during an NFL telecast -- soccer was on) that they have two active, big screens viewable at night from the street at their third-level location above Plaza Foch, in the heart of Gringolandia.

cccmedia in Quito

Nards Barley wrote:

My friend in Cuenca watched NFL football this season using the international version of NFL gamepass. Since it is an international version, it doesn't require a vpn or proxy to access it.聽 He has fiber optic and a download speed of around 40 Mbps. I think he said he paid $80 for his subscription but he may have started his subscription mid-season.聽 He says he never has problems with buffering and he watches it primarily on his laptop connected to his TV...

I was in Quito for half the NFL regular season of 2016 (September and December) and in Colombia the other half (October-November).

In Quito, I watched mostly via a DirecTV Sunday Ticket subscription.聽 All those games -- the Sunday 1 p.m. to 4:25 p.m starts -- have English audio available.

Starting this past season, DirecTV in both countries stopped offering English audio on the games outside the Sunday Ticket package.聽 Used to be that you could get English audio on Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football .. whereas Thursday Night Football was not shown.

That got turned around in 2016.聽 Spanish-only audio was available on Sunday/Monday nights.聽 Thursday Night Football was added on DirecTV -- with Spanish-language audio, no English.

I watched some of the night action on the NFL GamePass subscription that Nards mentioned.聽 That gave me English audio on everything, with all NFL games shown.聽 (Full disclosure:聽 I did not attempt to access the London, England, games, which are played in the early morning U.S. time.)

When in Colombia, I watched almost exclusively on my laptop via NFL GamePass even when games were available on the hotel鈥檚 TV .. in order to get English audio.

By the way, the 鈥渓ive鈥� TV games are not synchronized perfectly with play in the actual games, so that watching on a larger TV screen while listening to English audio on GamePass was not practical.

I watched some of the NFL games this past season on delay.聽 For instance, I might have seen a couple of games the following day, which is easily doable with GamePass.

I was pleased with the GamePass video.聽 Like Nards鈥檚 friend in Cuenca, I found that buffering was not a problem.聽

If anybody doubts the importance of having English audio for NFL games, I will be glad to explain.

cccmedia, planning to watch SuperBowl LI next Sunday
聽 聽 on NFL GamePass .. here in Quindio, Colombia (Juan Valdez coffee country)

cccmedia wrote:

on NFL GamePass .. here in Quindio, Colombia (Juan Valdez coffee country)

Now you got us wondering why you are spending so much time in Columbia. FARC transition facilitator?

Sophems wrote:

Isn't it crazy the lengths we go through to watch our sports?

It can get complicated if you are attempting to get all NFL games on a shoestring budget.

It can be simple.

DirecTV鈥檚 Sunday Ticket gets you virtually all the games .. 75 percent or more with English audio until the start of the playoffs.聽 NFL GamePass gets you all the games, including the playoffs and Super Bowl, all with English audio.聽 Ustvnow.com (with selected options) gets you all of the night games and selected Sunday afternoon games, all with English audio.

You don鈥檛 need all three services.聽 GamePass could be sufficient, especially if you can route the signal to a 32 or 40 inch TV.

I paid less in South America for the combination of DirecTV Sunday Ticket and NFL GamePass this season (2016, plus playoffs through Super Bowl on GamePass) than I paid for Sunday Ticket alone during my most-recent years living in the States.

cccmedia

Sophems wrote:

Yes we had direct tv, but recently canceled it now that we have the Kodi box.聽 He only thing I really miss is turning on a live channel for the noise.

This may need an explanation.

What noise did you hear from DirecTV NFL telecasts -- announcer over crowd noise, whistles and refs鈥� announcements?

What, if anything, are you hearing or not hearing now?聽 Are you getting English-language commentary on the games?

cccmedia