
For those of you 500 people who get the NFL network this post does not apply.
While I understand that the cable companies and the NFL are both businesses and that they need to make as much money as possible, I do not understand why I don't get to watch football on Thursday. The guy a half mile away from me has a lower cable bill, gets the NFL AND his dogs are well trained (unlike mine). What gives? Both sides acting like they are looking out for the interest of the 'viewers'.
As Dennis Miller would have said if he was still 15% funny....."That is like the appearance vs. reality themes lying throughout Macbeth. As if the 3 witches werent really evil and they wanted a 5-some with Lady Macbeth and Macbeth using the bloody dagger for Duncan as a sex tool!" or "I bet NFL commisioner Goodell feels like Oedipus raping Hamlet when he calls the cable companies".
I know this makes no sense and you probably see this makes no sense unless you were a drama major (and if you were then you probably have larger social issues than being able to understand Dennis Miller and you can see why he is only 5% funny now). And I dont think he was actually ever 15% funny. How does his current audience of Bush fans understand him? ANYWAY>>>>>>>>
Ill pay the extra $3 or whatever to get the damn channel. I already have the golf, badminton,
men's gymnastics and moonshine race package. Why not add it there? I could do without the 'curling' channel. Eh Canada!? Not Showing the games puts a serious dent in my fantasy football tracking and it also takes away a valuable excuse to leave work before 7pm not to mention the free couch surfing pass it gives.
Ever since my cable company started blocking my calls I cant even ask them to get the station anymore. (who knew you could get a phone restraining order)?
However, boys and girls there is light at the end of the tunnel. It turns out that Congress had given the NFL exemption of the Anti-Trust laws. The same laws that broke up Ma-Bell
don't apply to our favorite pastime (*favorite past-time only applies if your under 90 years old. Otherwise its baseball.) Now that the NFL is playing hard-ball Congress has decided to get tough with them.
Presumably because they had to get tough with someone since they have caved into Bush like a West Virginia coal mine under the care of a
Haliburton subsidiary.
Will the NFL play nice? Will our behemoth Cable companies play nice? Its funny that two industries that are basically exempt from Monopoly laws are playing the largest game of Monopoly in sports history. Too bad that we the viewers are the shoe and race car pieces. (No one wants to be the thimble.)