NFL Reddit Stream Alternatives: Week 1 live stream options for NFL 2021 season

The NFL 2021 season kicks off with a matchup between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Dallas Cowboys, after seven long months without a meaningful game.

This will be the first 18-week regular season in the history of the league. All 32 teams will now play 17 games after the schedule expansion since the new Collective Bargaining Agreement was signed in March 2020. The Buccaneers open their regular season with a home game because they are the reigning champions.

With a full slate of games commencing on Thursday, fans are scrambling for ways to watch the games. How do you watch the action live if you don't have cable or subscriptions to other streaming platforms? Here's the complete guide for just that:

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Can you stream NFL Week-1 games for free on Reddit?

Not anymore, as Reddit banned the nflstreams subreddit due to copyright infringement. They also did the same with NBA and MMA streams' subreddits.

The r/nflstream subreddit was illegal by all accounts, so Reddit shut it down. It looks like this was something done by the platform itself without a notice from the NFL.

The Reddit platform released the following statement after it shut down the subreddit:

“Our policy is to close the accounts of users, in appropriate circumstances, who have repeatedly been charged with copyright infringement. Sometimes a repeat infringement problem is limited to one user, and we close just that user’s account. Other times, the problem pervades a whole subreddit community, and we close the subreddit.”

How to watch Week-1 games for free in the USA?

NFL fans have the option of a seven-day free trial with FuboTV, a service that provides access to NFL Network programs, like Good Morning Football, NFL Total Access and NFL GameDay.

Other services like Hulu and YouTube TV also have free-trial periods. DIRECTV also provides a streaming option for the NFL Sunday Ticket package.

Here you can see the TV schedule for each channel for Week-1 games. Games in bold are nationally televised ones, and can be seen for free.

NBC:

Thursday, September 9:

Dallas Cowboys @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday, September 12:

Chicago Bears @ Los Angeles Rams, 8:20 p.m.

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CBS:

Sunday, September 12:

Pittsburgh Steelers @ Buffalo Bills, 1 p.m
New York Jets @ Carolina Panthers, 1 p.m
Jacksonville Jaguars @ Houston Texans, 1 p.m
Arizona Cardinals @ Tennessee Titans, 1 p.m
Los Angeles Chargers @ Washington Football Team, 1 p.m
Cleveland Browns @ Kansas City Chiefs, 4:25 p.m
Miami Dolphins @ New England Patriots, 4:25 p.m

FOX:

Sunday, September 12:

Philadelphia Eagles @ Atlanta Falcons, 1 p.m
Minnesota Vikings @ Cincinnati Bengals, 1 p.m
San Francisco 49ers @ Detroit Lions, 1 p.m
Seattle Seahawks @ Indianapolis Colts, 1 p.m
Green Bay Packers @ New Orleans Saints, 4:25 p.m
Denver Broncos @ New York Giants, 4:25 p.m

ESPN:

Monday, September 13

Baltimore Ravens @ Las Vegas Raiders, 8:15 PM.

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About the author

Henrique Bulio is an NFL and College Football journalist at Sportskeeda and the Editor-in-Chief of Pro Football Brasil. He has a total 13 years of experience working in American Football, and playing quarterback at an amateur level in Brazil has given him a unique perspective of the game.

Henrique follows the Philadelphia Eagles closely due to Michael Vick's historic performance on MNF against the Washington Commanders in 2010. His all-time favorite player is Ed Reed; he believes that Reed is the greatest safety to ever play the game. Bill Belichick gets the nod as Henrique's favorite coach for coaching the Patriots to glory over two decades.

If Henrique were to be able to go back in time and watch one game, it would be Super Bowl XLIX, where the Patriots and the Seahawks played a complete, back-and-forth game that concluded with one of the biggest talking points in NFL history.

Technical deep dives are Henrique’s specialty, and he ensures never to use misleading words in his articles, since he himself consumes a lot of information off the web. He has had the privilege of interviewing Cairo Santos, Lamar Jackson, Jim Harbaugh, Sean McDermott, Bruce Arians, Matt LaFleur, among others.

Aside from football, Henrique likes to play poker and Counter-Strike.

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