taz666
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Do a little searching on the great wide web and I'll bet you can find a solution to not being able to watch the NFL on TV 
NFL Broadcast Rant/TV In General
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johnjohn
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Haven't watched the nfl since the players started all that kneeling humbug.
CAJUNLAWYER
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The players are also getting VERY pissed as well. The Kansas City Chiefs got a particularly wicked stretch of games-playing 3 games in 10 days. I think the players association will get involved. All the concussion protocals are just lip service compared to the lack of time to allow players to recuperate after short weeks common with the Thursday games, the over sea games, etc.
Baseball is getting the same way. I got a subscription to MLB.tv so that I could watch all the out of market games I wanted to. Their advertising even said that. Except that so many other streaming services bought the rights to a lot of games that I get blackouts all the time. Sick of it. I don't watch pro football, basketball or hockey. As another member said, college is becoming the same as pro these days. Getting to the point I would rather watch ladies golf replays. Nice legs in shorts skirts on a lot of those ladies.
The only football I watch is the KC Chiefs. I wait till the next day and watch the highlights on YouTube for free. I get to see the best parts of the game in 15 minutes instead of 4 hours.
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Nascar is heading that way next season! I sure aren't gonna be paying extra to watch the talking heads & advertising that goes with all that ****!
Yendor357
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You could say the sun rises in the east and someone would tell you that you’re wrong. Whatever…….
Puller
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I stopped watching college and pro sports a decade or so back. I found it was one of the most insignificant time suckers and my life is so much fuller because if it.
Nope, me either ! Nascar is has gone downhill fast, and certainly not paying extra to watch it.
I have a FireTV and can’t get EVERYTHING for $31 dollars a month. FireTV does not have its own subscription with EVERYTHING. It gives me access to subscription services that can add up quickly.
venomballistics
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You know how the Brits once conquered the world in search of spices, so they didn't have to use any of them?
Its kinda like how I have two TV's, so I never have to watch them.
We were all raised on the idiot box. It was the original electronic babysitter and a central fixture in our homes. Most of us are pretty much trained to gather around, tune in and zone out.
About the time direct TV went mainstream and those trees offering shade and summer climate control to our homes were removed for a clear view of the southern sky, I fell away from the broadcast TV congregation. the 299 channels of garbage we traded those trees for offended most of my sensibilities as deus ex machina plot twists were cranked up to eleven.
Today I see a society loaded with folks who seem to think everything will come out on the wash while sitting idly by while the consequences of inaction breach the levy.
The age of legal weed is approaching, with 39 states having some legal provisions for it, 24 recreational use. For the cost of a TV subscription, you can take a better trip on some dispensary grade and perhaps be no worse off.
NFL???? read the fine print folks ... it's no longer the sport sanctioning body we used to know. It's now an entertainment company. That means the game can and will be manipulated to maximize ratings instead of just allowing the game to be played and it's result left to stand in history like the real contests of Vince Lombardi's era.
Its kinda like how I have two TV's, so I never have to watch them.
We were all raised on the idiot box. It was the original electronic babysitter and a central fixture in our homes. Most of us are pretty much trained to gather around, tune in and zone out.
About the time direct TV went mainstream and those trees offering shade and summer climate control to our homes were removed for a clear view of the southern sky, I fell away from the broadcast TV congregation. the 299 channels of garbage we traded those trees for offended most of my sensibilities as deus ex machina plot twists were cranked up to eleven.
Today I see a society loaded with folks who seem to think everything will come out on the wash while sitting idly by while the consequences of inaction breach the levy.
The age of legal weed is approaching, with 39 states having some legal provisions for it, 24 recreational use. For the cost of a TV subscription, you can take a better trip on some dispensary grade and perhaps be no worse off.
NFL???? read the fine print folks ... it's no longer the sport sanctioning body we used to know. It's now an entertainment company. That means the game can and will be manipulated to maximize ratings instead of just allowing the game to be played and it's result left to stand in history like the real contests of Vince Lombardi's era.
I agree completely but...The biggest portion of revenue that funds the huge salaries pro athletes make is from the broadcast rights. The media isn't going to simply back off the scheduling patterns we see today. Will the players take less money? Baseball talks about cutting back on the 162 game schedule. Will the players tale less money? I didn't think so!
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They won't have the Chief's game on live today . . .
Over the last few years I’ve noticed that people will boycott certain companies because of their woke BS. But the same people will not boycott their favorite sport. They just can’t bring themselves to do it.
Not saying that’s a bad thing. Just an observation.
I won’t watch anything that is disrespectful to our country, to first responders, our military, and a common sense way of life.
Haven’t watched broadcast tv for several years. Don’t miss it.
Not saying that’s a bad thing. Just an observation.
I won’t watch anything that is disrespectful to our country, to first responders, our military, and a common sense way of life.
Haven’t watched broadcast tv for several years. Don’t miss it.
I dumped Direct TV over a year ago and have a couple of streaming services including Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Prime. I'm paying half the money I did under Direct TV and getting just most everything I want to see.
I don't care too much for the game, now that they changed the way they do the "Kick off's" now and how the clock is handled on out of bounds plays.
When I played , when you went out of bounds, the clock stopped,
no matter what direction the offensive player was facing !!
Don'r even get me started on car races.........
When I played , when you went out of bounds, the clock stopped,
no matter what direction the offensive player was facing !!
Don'r even get me started on car races.........
venomballistics
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While a bit lopsided and us having no horse in the race the boys and I enjoyed the Chiefs/Steelers game.
My entertainment dollars paid off.
My entertainment dollars paid off.
The Last Standing Knight
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BINGO! Same thing is happening to terrestrial radio as well.
Notice how terrestrial TV not-so-subtly points toward the particular networks' streaming services these days?
Terrestrial TV will always be there to an extent just like when radio was "dethroned" by television. But if you think the garbage they show now is bad...just wait.
Cable TV is overpriced, has always been overrated, and is going to be the system slowly going the same route as the Dodo.
Streaming is "the next big thing" in broadcasting and every entertainment conglomerate will be putting more and more resources into this market than anything else in the next decade.
I gave up on TV long ago and don't feel the need for either cable or streaming.
