You stupid monkey fuckers. What the fuck are you doing?!? 5 minutes left in what was not a given win for Green Bay. In an NFC North market, with a “Viking-based” fan base that didn’t exist before or since the Cunningham/Culpepper/Moss years, you cut to the Seattle-Minnesota game. No, let me correct that. You cut to 4 minutes of ads.
Stick to the fucking regional game until the end of it. Cut in with updates of scoring if it happens, but stick to the game you hyped with the Noon start. What the fuck are you doing? The late game is going to take about 3 hours on average. Would it fucking kill you to finish off what you started.
Based on the feedback e-mail I sent, I may not be available to post here, or anywhere, for 5 - 20. Fuck it.
Stick to a fucking game until it’s over. This is akin to the fucking Heidi game.
I used to be the first to tout/defend/promote Fox Sports. No fucking longer. I hope and wish (through no action by me) that anyone and everyone involved in this bullshit suffers horribly. Suffers greatly. Suffers as no man ever has.
I slavishly watched the pre-game. I slavishly watched the game and the advertising. And I was denied what I was promised. The game. They broke the deal. I will now find any way possible to watch a full game in the future. I can’t count on the network to deliver what they promised. The signal was being sent, but I wasn’t allowed access tot he signal I was promised. I’ll find a way to access it from now on. And I ain’t…well, maybe that’s going too far for the SDMB. Don’t want to break any rules here.
Speaking of the WS, why do we need 45 minutes of buildup to the game? And why do we need a special performance from John Mellencamp of song that’s already being used as a Chevy commercial??? And why did they announce he’s a 15 time Grammy nominee but the title thing under him on the screen said grammy winner?
I’m still wondering why the ad is so heavy on scenes of destruction and bad things in general. I understand it when looking at Mellencamp being the singer, but it doesn’t seem as effective as Ford’s ads touting the trucks.
Sure it is. It’s exactly like that. I’m sure the Vikings fans were so worried that the game they actually cared about would air on time instead of seeing the waning minutes of a boring game between two lousy out-of-market teams that they flooded the switchboard so the high-ranking executives couldn’t get through and tell them not to pull the plug.
Or maybe you should set that beer-a-quarter rule I set for myself.
I have noticed this all season. They always say something like “NFL rules say we have to break away”. Does anyone know anymore about this?
Many times, they break away to commercials, or even just the post game report which makes it all the more angering. It sounds more like a network rule to allow local/regional broadcasters to air commericals that were paid for to be aired during a certain game that was expected to draw a particular audience. Then, the NFl made the rule at the request of the networks so that the networks can assert they are powerless.
I got interested in this the one time when I heard hubby thrashing and yelling (my exaggeration) in the other room screaming at the TV. They actually cut away from a drive with like 1 minute to go, team down 5 points and nearing the goaline. Then, in the postgame show, they were giving verbal updates and showing replays seconds after they happened. He was pleased they at least did this, but wooo nelly he was mad.
Also, while were on it, is anyone else angered when they delay other shows when a game goes over, BUT not just the game, they take an extra 20 minutes with the post-game wrap-up which entails TALKING ABOUT THE GAME I JUST WATCHED. Get a clue fellas, if I tuned in after the game was scheduled to be over, I don’t give a crap about the recap of the game, or the stupid, lame ass questions thrown at the players, “Um, how did you feel about dropping that pass?”, “Was this a good game for you guys?”, "Uh, when you said to the umpire bad call, what did you mean?, and “Wow, that’s a ice hat, do you like wearing hats?”.
FOX is notorious for this. I have been watchign MAD TV at around 2:00 a.m. because not only do they run over, they still have to show the crappy local news and some stupid talk show before they get into the 11:00 p.m. programming.
The NFL shows national games at 4:15pm, as in virtually everyone in the country gets to see it. If your home team is playing at the same time on the same network, you’ll see your home team instead, but there’s very few 4:15 games each week for this reason.
The NFL wants to maximize the ratings of the national game, and having earlier games hurts the cause. If it’s on another network, people will be slow to switch over. If it’s the same network, then the national game feed would be delayed, giving the beginning of the broadcast a big fat zero to drag down the average viewership for the game.
I suspect the ratings for the weekly national 4:15 broadcasts feature prominently during contract negotiations with the networks.
Of course they do. You don’t think networks or the NFL are broadcasting games out of the goodness of their hearts, do you?
That said, the NFL really is clueless about its broadcast strategy. I’m fairly sure I’ve posted this before, but here in Central Pennsylvania, we’re considered a secondary market for the Baltimore Ravens. Apparently, the fact that PA has two NFL teams doesn’t mean anything. Our local CBS affiliate breaks NFL rules when it shows Steelers games instead of Ravens games. I think they’re spoiling for a fight, though.
Serves you right for bothering to watch an event played between teams of spoiled brats hired by greedy billionaires. FOX probably cut to the Minnesota game because they got more money per minute of advertising time with that game instead of the Green Bay one. You go somthing against mankind’s salvation, the free market?
Well, without the specific details, I must say I couldn’t disagree with duffer more.
First of all, Miami held the ball from the 6 minute (to go) mark until Mare missed a field goal with 2:06 to go. Did they really cut away with 4 minutes to go? Like in the middle of the Miami drive? I suspect they cut away after that field goal attempt. And, yes, with a 10 point lead, the ball at their own 43, and 2:06 left on the clock, that game is over 999 times out of 1000.
The 1 in a thousand was the Heidi Bowl and that’s a bad way to make decisions.
Duffer also says, “in an AFC North market”. What the hell does that mean? I bet they didn’t cut away from the game in Green Bay. And I bet that Duffer was the one guy in a million bitching they they cut away from the game with the two teams that were fucking 1-5 to go to the game between the 3-2 Vikings and the 4-1 (division leading) Seahawks.
Minnesota-Seattle was one of the few good games on the schedule yesterday. It should have felt like a fucking relief to get away from that Miami-GB piece of shit.
If Duffer still lives in North Dakota then the Vikings game is the regional game. No way the local affiliates are going to delay going to the Vikings game in order to stay with some late game, garbage time coverage of two lousy, irrelevant teams like the Packers and the Dolphins. The game leading up to the Vikings is just filler anyway. It’s like the music you hear when you’re waiting on hold. It’s there to fill space until something more important happens.
Mr. Duffer said he’s living in “a Viking fan base” – which I took to mean “Minnesota” – so the local TV stations would get far more complaints for letting the early game run out its meaningless existence. The comparison to the Heidi game is ridiculous. Local markets drop the end of the early game all the time. The fact that Miami and Green Bay were 2-9 going into that game just adds to the comic overstatement of that comparison.
Then there is the other fucked-up NFL broadcast rule which prevented CBS from showing the conclusion of the Pittsburgh-Atlanta game yesterday. CBS wasn’t showing a 4 o’clock ET game (at least nationally) but from 4:15 onwards we got to watch James Brown, Danny Marino, et.al. narrate to us what was happening instead of just getting to watch the broadcast itself. I guess it was all about protecting Fox’s right to have the exclusive 4:15 national broadcast but I turned off the TV made use of my NFL Field Pass subscription and listened to the radio broadcast.
Yeah, this is what deserves to get pitted from yesterday, if anything. duffer’s problem is just that he’s a Packers fan living in a Vikings television market. Virtually the entire country got fucked over, though, because of the rule that Ellis Dee mentioned, that if the early game is anything other than the local game you started with, it HAS to cut off at 4:15. The narration that fiddlesticks noted in the quote just adds to how absolutely ludicrous it felt when virtually the entire nation (since it was the last of the CBS 1pm games, it was on everywhere, and unless you had Pitt or ATL from the start…) got cut away from a 38-38 game with three minutes left in regulation because of the 4:15 rule.
On the other hand, such idiocy in the broadcast contracts can be seen as one of the primary motivators of why the NFL is as big as it is today, because it lets the league get all that TV money. 4:15 is utterly moronic, but I think the Sunday Ticket package being DirecTV exclusive still pisses me off on a more regular basis.
Yeah, in San Antonio our CBS early game was the Texans-Jaguars (joy!). That game ended early, so they switched to Steelers-Falcons game, but then switched out around 4:15 (well before OT started). Unless you were in a market where the Steelers/Falcons game was your 1pm game, CBS switched over to the studio at 4:15 or so and from then on could only show “highlights” (namely, after each play, they showed us a replay). Very cruddy. Again, this is a complaint about the NFL’s inflexible broadcasting rules, not a complaint about how CBS handled it.
Again, this is a complaint about the NFL’s inflexible broadcasting rules, not a complaint about how CBS handled it.