What's the craziest length you've gone to in order to follow your team while abroad?
I've had some serious struggles and frustrations while trying to follow sports at home while on the road. How do you stay plugged in when you're in a long distance relationship with your favorite team?
Reply to this Not so much a 'struggle' story - but it did remind me of something else.
While I was living in Japan a friend used to record the All Blacks' (NZ national rugby team) games. He would then upload them for me to download from where I was.
One time, knowing I was definitely not a fan of synchronised swimming (there was one exception), at certain crucial moments in the game he would insert short clips of synchronised swimming.
After the initial bad moment when I thought the game had been completely recorded over, I could see the 'humour' in it :-)
Reply to this I used to travel with a little SONY SW Radio so I could stay abreast of the news and listen to the BBC´s coverage of the English Premier League on the weekends. I´ve listened live from a tent in the Sahara desert in Sudan and the heights of the Himalayas, amongst many other places.
However, if anyone knows how I can work similar magic with the NFL, I would appreciate any advise. For example, I would love to be able to catch the Packers-Colts game from a small town in southern Ecuador; It kicks off in approx. 4 hours!!!
Reply to this If you have bandwidth, you can stream the game on channelsurfing.net. (I'm of course not encouraging you to break intellectual property laws, but if you choose to do so, this site is a god send.)
Reply to this We've crowded round a SW radio in the back blocks of all sorts of places. We've also had some great experiences in pubs and bars yelling at a tv with the locals. The latter mainly being when there was a big game on regardless of who we supported. We watched the qualifiers to a world cup (football, several years ago) in football mad South America, a couple of games live, plus a bunch on tv.
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