Screen shot of NFL Mobile app showing possible live games to watch.
Though every game isn’t available, the NFL Mobile live schedule is pretty good, as it includes Sunday Night Football games, Monday Night games, Thursday night games and Sunday local games and also preseason games like tonight’s action. Also free is non-live action programming from the NFL Network, but if you want the prize catch — the NFL Network’s RedZone Channel — you still need to pay an extra $1.99 a month, and it’s a good idea to register NOW as Verizon has a history of having technical difficulty when people call on opening day.
(Don’t say we didn’t warn you!)
And, as always, though the games are free the data usage is not, so if you are on cellular games will count against your service plan; our best suggestion is to find free Wi-Fi.
If you are a savvy NFL watcher, you know that the RedZone Channel is the “secret” extra window to live action, especially on the West coast where we would often see entire games shown on RedZone simply because there weren’t other games to switch back and forth to. If you are a customer of any other cellular service, you are mostly out of luck in getting live football on your phone, since Verizon has an exclusive $1 billion deal with the NFL to be the sole carrier of live action on phone-type devices for another 2 years.
What’s still a muddle is whether or not you will be able to watch live action via NFL Mobile when you are at an NFL stadium, something we are working on trying to find the answers to. Neither the league nor Verizon has ever offered up anything like a guide to whether or not you can use the app to watch other games while at a game, even though with fantasy football it’s a good bet that many NFL ticketholders would like to have access to games other than the one they are attending. You can blame local and stadium broadcasting rights for most of the places that block NFL Mobile live games, along with substandard wireless services, but our hope is that the situation will improve as more teams put in Wi-Fi and upgrade their DAS.
You may also see a message prompting you to sign up for a new $99.99 (or so) package called Game Pass, which is a new all-inclusive video subscription deal from the league that includes live game audio and a lot of other features, but no live game action. Look for more info on that package and a revamped NFL Mobile app next week, and let’s all cross our fingers and burn incense to hope that Verizon added a server or two so many of us aren’t frustrated when the footballs fly.
I’ve been trying to watch red zone and it’s not letting me. I click on nfl red zone and it just freezes on the page it won’t let me pay or nothing and I had it last year with no problems so how do i get it this year?
Think you can only buy it on Sundays. I know, that makes no sense. But I think that is the deal.
If you still have problems call Verizon tech support and see if they can walk you through it. I had issues last year and that was my “fix.”
Anyone know why the hell you can’t watch the same stuff in the same application on a Verizon wireless tablet
I see nothing on my NFL app with THE RedZone on it. Help!!
Because Verizon’s rights are only for “cell phone like” devices. Tablets weren’t part of the deal.
I don’t think RedZone has started yet for this season
How do is subscribe to redzone within the app?
You have to purchase it from the in-app menu. I think if you try to launch it you will be directed to a pay window.
It’s hard to find (I couldn’t figure it out last year) so an alternate method is to call Verizon customer service and have them add it to your bill.