Super Bowl 2012 Live Stream: NBC Sets Precedent by Streaming Patriots vs. Giants

NBC.com is offering the Super Bowl live online for the first time in the history of the monumental national event.

This move shows that America has fully committed itself to the digital age and a major television network realizes the value of showing their product to as many potential viewers as possible.

Not everyone will be comfortably at home or at a Super Bowl party with a big screen, and many potential viewers could be trapped in their office or elsewhere without access to NBC.

Now, anyone with a mobile device or laptop and an Internet connection can watch.

Here’s how to do it.

Online: NBCSports.com

Live, online coverage starts at 2:00 p.m. EDT and the game will seamlessly begin at 6:30 p.m. EDT.

Mobile: NFL Mobile

Verizon users have the luxury of getting NFL Mobile on their smart phones and those trapped in a car or event without a TV or computer can catch all the action.

These two methods to view the Super Bowl are going to revolutionize the way people can watch the biggest sporting event in the country.

There was no reason to not have this done years ago, but now it will be unimaginable for a network not to offer these options.

About 111 million viewers are estimated to tune in and watch the Patriots and Giants duke it out, and that is just for the television broadcast.

NBC is going to pull in a huge amount of additional viewers via their internet broadcast, and may even double up on some people who want to catch the additional camera angles and features not provided on their TV.