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Any LSU fans in Germany?

Posted on 9/30/14 at 10:14 am
Posted by TheSexecutioner
Member since Mar 2011
5247 posts
Posted on 9/30/14 at 10:14 am
Moving to Germany for a while. Jena. About an hour southwest of Leipzig. Want to try to prevent myself from getting into soccer by keeping up with American sports and LSU games.

So anybody here live or have lived in Germany? How is the US sports accessibility?
Posted by TDTGodfather
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
6169 posts
Posted on 9/30/14 at 10:22 am to
i'm so confused. is this a re-post?
Posted by mooseofterror
USA
Member since Dec 2012
1338 posts
Posted on 9/30/14 at 10:28 am to
Lived there many years. Luckily Germany's internet is connected to the US internet so you should have no problems watching games ;) Another alternative that I used was a SlingBox. Left it plugged into my mom's cable and internet here in Louisiana and then I could access here entire cable programming through my browser in germany. 100-200$ investment well worth it.
Posted by Navytiger74
Member since Oct 2009
50458 posts
Posted on 9/30/14 at 10:31 am to
quote:

Moving to Germany for a while. Jena. About an hour southwest of Leipzig. Want to try to prevent myself from getting into soccer by keeping up with American sports and LSU games.

So anybody here live or have lived in Germany? How is the US sports accessibility?


I lived Stuttgart from 2009-2012. My cable provider, KabelBW, offered a sports package that included ESPN America. I was able to catch all the big games (even CBS broadcasts), as well as Sports Center and a few of the other sports shows, on that network. My provider was local to Baden-Württemberg, but I'm sure there's something similar in Thuringia. For smaller games, the overseas ESPN internet provider was called ESPNplayer as of a couple of years ago (It was ESPN 3 and ESPN360 before that, so the name may have changed again). It cost about EU90 per year (about $130 at the time) and allowed me to catch the smaller draws. Not sure if the introduction of the SEC network will affect that.

You can also look into getting a sling-box, but I'm under the impression that they aren't as popular as they were when I got to Germany almost six years ago. For NFL games, it might be worth it to buy an AFN receiver if you can swing it (don't know if you're military/govie or not).
This post was edited on 9/30/14 at 10:34 am
Posted by TopsInAmericaTim
Houston Area
Member since Oct 2011
1403 posts
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:24 am to
Isn't one of Shaq's kids there/??
Posted by Honkus
Member since Aug 2005
51041 posts
Posted on 9/30/14 at 11:25 am to
Where do you think the term "Germans" came from?
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