NFL Sunday Ticket

A few years ago in Philadelphia there were only 2 NFL teams you could watch playing at the bar on a Sunday afternoon: The Philadelphia Eagles and whoever they were playing that week.

Now Cowboys, Bears, and Raiders fans expect to head to their favorite watering hole and watch their teams do battle, no matter who they're playing.

DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket and similar cable packages that were unique several years ago are now a necessity for bars during football season.

Jack Eaton, a bartender at Tilton Inn in Egg Harbor Township, PA, says the bar gets a lot of phone calls from patrons who want to make sure they have the NFL Sunday Ticket before they leave their house to watch football on Sunday.

Patrons come in and either park themselves in front of whatever TV is playing their game, or ask their bartender to change the channel to accommodate their seat.

"We've got a guy here who's a big Pittsburgh fan," Eaton says. "So we make sure we put the Pittsburgh game on for him."

Keith Asmuth was born and raised near Buffalo, NY, making him a die hard Buffalo Bills fan. But since he currently lives in Egg Harbor Township, he rarely gets to see his beloved Bills.

"You can go anywhere now and someone has it," Asmuth says. "You can watch almost every game."

At the Tilton Inn, Eaton places a device on the bar that looks like a cross between a Blackberry and an Xbox controller. It is the Sunday afternoon bartender's salvation: A universal remote.

"See here, it connects to all the TVs and I can change any of the channels," Eaton says, touching various buttons on the screen.

"This way if someone wants to put the game on, we can swing it on for them."

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