Sprint prepares to phone-cast entire NFL games, starting tonight
By Darren Murph 
posted Nov 6th 2008 8:10AM
posted Nov 6th 2008 8:10AM
The National Football League and Sprint have been tied up in one form or fashion for years now, but the relationship is finally rounding third and heading for home. All mixed analogies aside, what we're saying is that the feature you've been clamoring for has finally arrived, and beginning tonight, select Sprint subscribers will be able to watch the entire Cleveland Browns vs. Denver Broncos tilt on their handset. Obviously, you'll need a Sprint TV-capable handset and an Everything Plan (or a $15 per month add-on) in order to tune in, but tonight's game -- which kicks off at 8:00PM ET on the NFL Network -- will be the first of eight games (televised solely on that network) to air via Sprint. Whether or not The Now Network can keep up with the action, however, remains to be seen.
I think you may be mistaken about the "everything plan" being required. You get some basic content with Sprint TV as long as you have a data plan. Most of it is useless as far as live content goes (ads, select movie previews, etc), however one of the free channels is the NFL network.
I just tested it on my Sprint phone, and all I have is a standard data plan.
An Everything plan IS a standard data plan. "Simply Everything" is the $99 plan. If you've got data, you're good.
Jim, Everything plan is more recent. Most people I know on Sprint still have the older simple data plans, a $15 add-on (or SERO with data included) which didn't include sprint premium features like navigation, unlimited messaging, etc.
Every data plan has Sprint TV basic content, however not every data plan is an Everything Plan.
845 pm ugh finally could connect...no video...slow garbled audio
ugh grr argh