Fuck NFL.com
Nov/082
We all know about the NFL Network and what a joke it is. I can’t get it, you can’t get it. There is only one bar in my town that gets it. Whatever, this is all old news. The NFL though is smart, they realize that since many of their fans can’t get the game they should offer alternative ways to view it. My buddy Oscar has Sprint and he can watch the whole game on his phone. You can also theoretically watch the game on NFL.com. However, this doesn’t work because THEY DON’T SHOW IT. Here’s a little play by play of last night’s game.
- The Patriots kick a Field Goal
- We go back to the studio for three guys I’ve never heard of to discuss it
- They continue to discuss it
- They discuss it some more
- We go to a scoreboard where suddenly the Jets just added a touchdown
- The studio guys say “The Jets just scored we’ll show you how in a second”
- They discuss some more stuff
- They show the kick return for a TD
- They return to the studio to discuss it
It went on like this! It was awesome when they skipped the Jets kickoff and then were talking to the sideline reporter and you could clearly see the Patriots punting in the background. Thanks for letting us know you skipped an entire drive guys. Not only would they skip over lots of action, they would then spoil it before you could see it. So if the Patriots scored they would say like “Matt Cassel threw a TD pass” and then show it. If you want to do this studio thing, that’s fine, but when you go back to live game don’t spoil what happens. Just hit play from the point right before they scored. This isn’t too much to ask.
The best part was when we were inside two minutes left in the half and instead of just showing the final two minutes of the game they had their studio guys talking with the camera panned way out to show a TV showing the game. So on the bottom half of the screen was a TV screen showing the game while the guys talked in the top half. Unbelievable.
Look here NFL. I get it. You want people to get the NFL Network. You don’t want them watching online. It makes sense, but I’m not about to uproot my entire cable just for your one channel. It’s not my job to switch around my whole life to watch your channel. It’s your job to make your channel available to me and until you do that, I am doing one of three things: going to the one bar in town to watch it, watching it online or not watching it. That’s it. I’m not calling DirecTV. I’m not getting a Sprint phone. I’m doing one of those three things so try not to make it so unenjoyable to do them, okay?
