If you find yourself traveling internationally during football season without any way to watch the game, DAZN has your back.
DAZN has launched a service called “NFL Travel Pass” which allows Americans traveling abroad to pay a weekly subscription to stream games while away from home. The price starts at $17.99 per week and includes all regular season and postseason NFL games, NFL RedZone, NFL Network, and NFL Originals.
It’s a novel concept, and one that could very well have a market. Plenty of Americans travel internationally for work or vacation and may find the price of a one- or two-week subscription worth it to be able to keep up with the action without stressing about finding a place to watch the game in a foreign country.
NFL Travel Pass will show the same broadcast that fans back home are watching. Same commentators, same studio shows, even the same commercials you’d see stateside. The service will be available in over 200 countries worldwide, with Canada being a notable exclusion. Subscribers will also be able to download games and follow multiple games at once.
The NFL and DAZN already have a partnership that allows the streamer to sell NFL games in many international markets to an international audience, so the infrastructure to make Travel Pass happen was likely mostly in place already. Expanding that out to the core NFL audience — Americans — when they are traveling abroad only makes sense.
It’s almost comical the efficiency in which the NFL and its media partners are able to extract cash from fans. But at least DAZN’s NFL Travel Pass has a clear purpose, and isn’t too cost prohibitive considering the subscription is only temporary.
About Drew Lerner
Drew Lerner is a staff writer for Awful Announcing and an aspiring cable subscriber. He previously covered sports media for Sports Media Watch. Future beat writer for the Oasis reunion tour.