After a hard fought season, Superbowl XLII is upon us. The wait is over. The teams are intensely training, advertisers are working up their best commercials, and employees are cleaning the 73,000 seats at the University of Phoenix Stadium. Even more excited are the fans across the nations who wait impatiently to see if the New England Patriots can be the first team in NFL history to complete a 16 game undefeated season and win the Superbowl.

Die hard fans are preparing their airline tickets or mapping out their route and securing their hotel reservations. Those at home are getting ready for Superbowl XLII, as well. They're buying beer and chips, making dip, maybe even buying a new big screen high definition TV. This is the day that everyone is a football fan. This has been one of the most exciting and record breaking seasons in the NFL to date. With so few programming choices, only the true fanatics have followed every snap.

The question to ask is what happens after Superbowl XLII is over? What happens when everyone goes home? All of those preparations, all of that time getting ready for Superbowl XLII, and it will soon be over for another season. What is the diehard football fan to do after Superbowl XLII? Satellite providers are providing their customers with the most robust tools one can find to follow the sport. Other then NFL Sunday Ticket (only on DIRECTV), the satellite providers have high definition broadcasting of the NFL Network. The NFL Network airs football related content 365 days a year.

Fans can enjoy watching entire draft coverage live as well as training camp and exclusive coverage from football greats like Jamie Dukes, Deon Sanders, Steve Mariucci, Marshall Faulk, Rod Woodson, Sterling Sharp and Jim Mora just to name a few. It has the most comprehensive coverage of the NFL available today. Many die had fans have been switching to DIRECTV for the mere fact that they can receive this channel as well as NFL Sunday Ticket for their out of market games. With history being made almost every Sunday, who could blame them.