Bette Davis is dead? Wow.
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cutting to the chase, this was exactly my complaint. the pre-emption was not done by the network, but at the local level where they ran a local college basketball game. the rest of the network ran the programs as scheduled. imagine your chagrin if, in your market the super bowl was pre-empted by the local college drama department televising a perfomance of “the sound of music”
lh
You’re right. What I meant was I need to see it just as much as the OP needs to see The Amazing Race.
Well, since we can’t seem to comprimise, we’ll just stick with things the way they are. Works fine for me. And most viewers.
And we know what happens when we listen to the majority, we get exactly what we deserve…
I totally agree. I like most sports, but this still bugs me. Would it kill the networks to plan their schedules based on the time games usually take to complete? I wouldn’t mind so much if a game went into OT. I really don’t like televised baseball, but even I have been sucked into watching an exciting game going in extra innings. Yeah, I do figure that games will run over and plan accordingly. I’d just like the networks to figure that out too.
Who was Bette Davis? Some member of the LPGA?
I had no clue as to what the miracle on ice was. I don’t think I was ever aware of it, and I was an adult in 1980. The thing is, if you don’t care about sports, you don’t pay any attention to them. I don’t care about sports, other than to resent the way they interfear with TV programs I want to watch. I used to watch the olympics, because others in the house had them on, but I can’t say I cared about them. Some of them, unlike pro sports, were quite pretty, but that’s about it. I didn’t care who won, I just enjoyed watching, say, figure scating, or diving, or gymnastics – the graceful events. But the talk, talk, talk that accompanies them is a bore.
Re letting us know what’s going on. I’m not suggesting that text should crawl across the bottom of the screen continuously for the rest of prime time. I’m suggesting that it do so for a few minutes at the supposed start time of shows whose starts are delayed. If you tune in at 9:00, you should be informed as to (a) why the 9:00 show isn’t starting, and (b) just when the heck it will start.
Why is there a “sports segment” on the news? Sports is not “news.” No wonder we’re so underinformed as a nation: instead of hearing about what’s going on in the rest of the world (or in American politics), we have to waste ten minutes hearing about whether or not the Brooklyn Dodgers are going to win the Super Bowl this year.
The thing is, the Amazing race and other network shows always run for the same length of time, usually an half an hour or an hour. Network shows generally wont’ cause other shows schedules to be changed.
Sports games are set on TV to run for about 3 hours usually, and almost always go over that allotted time, screwing up the schedule. Why is it sooo hard for networks to allot more time for the games? I mean, I’d rather my show come on later than for it to literally be cut in half. If they game doesn’t run for entire time it’s scheduled for, then that’s the time for the commentary on the game! While I don’t usually watch sports myself, i understand they’re a huge money-maker for networks, as many people DO watch them. However, a little more logic when figuring out how long to make a football game’s time slot might be appreciated.
Not with their current goalie situation, that’s for sure.
Hear hear! Sports do not deserve the amount of inordinate amount of attention they get.
I’m angry that the Iraqi war has to compete for airtime with the whole hoodlum-basketball-riot scandal as if they are both equally important.
I’m sick of seeing grown-ass, potbellied, non-muscle-having men wearing basketball jerseys in the middle of the day.
I’m sick of turning to the classic rock station in the mornings and finding only BORING-ASS sports commentary.
I’m sick of 60 Minutes being screwed because of a damn football game.
I’m sick of people who know more about some roided-up, gold-teeth-wearing, muscleheads than the people in the White House. Or even their next-door neighbor!
Yes, I realize sports are interesting to a lot of people. But you know what? A lot of trashy things are interesting to a lot of people…most things in popular culture, in fact. And the only reason why sports–especially American sports–are deemed so “culturally important” is because they bring in $$$$$ and they are male-dominated institutions. Take away these facts and sports aren’t any more important than anything else.
Yeah, I said it!
If soap operas were something enjoyed predominately by men, we’d see a world where the news included a ten-minute “soaps” segment (plus a thirty-minute “week-in-review” show on Sunday evenings). Saturday and Sunday afternoons–the time when most of us are free to watch TV–would be dominated by five-hour long Days of Our Lives and Passions. We could turn on a multitude of radio stations and get our “stories”. Those football and basketball games would get shoved to God-forsaken timeslots, because nobody important watches those things except lame people! You better not touch the TV during season finale week either, lame people! Watching soaps would be partaking in the all-American pastime. One that everyone is expected to enjoy.
Fuck off. Whatever you like sucks, too.
C’mon, sports is news, it’s recent events. You want to talk about a wasted time during the news broadcast it’s weather forecasting. It isn’t news, it isn’t factual, it’s guestimation and projections. And if you tell me to get my sports reporting from ESPN, why don’t you get your polictal news from CSPAN?
Good God, get your hoity-toity ass off it’s imagined pedistal.
My ass is not hoity-toity.
It’s hotsy-totsy.
Now that will need to be seen to be believed.
No really, post a picture.
Please?
Pretty please?
With cream and sugar? 
And this is why, even though I vehemently disagree with her on the main topic of the thread, I dearly love Eve. 
I’ll second that, on both counts. I completely disagree with her stance in this thread, but it takes rare poise and wit to respond to an insult with charm and humor rather than vitriol. Eve, either you actually are a starlet magically transported from the golden age of cinema, or you’ve learned a lot from them.
(golf clap)
I’ve been surprised, sure. I’m saying that sports are spontaneous and unscripted. Nobody knows how the game is going to end, and that is what gives them the element of the unknown.
No, in fact they do have an intrinsic value. They promote youth leagues which fosters teamwork and other useful skills (like taking charge, maintaining your responsibility, being held accountable, following orders, doing your part even when it’s not glamorous, etc…) in our nation’s youth.
I disagree here as well. I think some movies do have intrinsic value, and many other forms of entertainment do as well. Even some TV shows do, in particular those with educational value.
I didn’t claim it; the actual hostages did, you dope. Way to attack the hostages as being pathetic. Good show, Miller.
To all those who claim ignorance of and are dismissive of the Miracle on Ice, you aren’t helping your case any. It was an example of several things. It is a modern day David vs Goliath parable. It was a demonstration of average Americans not allowing themselves to be bullied in a time where our friggin’ government was allowing itself to be bullied.
The main difference between sports and acting is the element of active, head to head competition. This also happens to be a fundamental principle of capitalism, but hey, there’s no intrinsic value to our economic system either, right? Only Malcolm in the Middle is worthy of our time.
Many people wear their disdain for sports as a badge of honor. There are countless reasons to scorn sports as they are today. To dismiss the idea of sports is a badge of ignorance. I could just as soundly dismiss the idea of books as being worthless. Why? Look at this trashy romance novel. Look at the crap on the bestsellers lists. If I held this opinion, wouldn’t I be kind of missing the point of books? In the same way, many of you are missing the point of sports.
Sports offer the closest example you can get to a true meritocracy in the world of entertainment. You don’t win it all unless you earn it. That makes them more intrinsically valuable than the vast majority of what is on television today.
Yes, I’m sure everyone understands this. That’s not an issue. However, us non-sports folks would just like real consideration from the networks rather than being shoved off just because their too incompeten to schedule properly.
That said, Futurama is a bad example for you, since they were deliberately trying to destroy it.
Ah… those things (and the degress with chich they foster them with respect to other organiztions are all subjectively valued…