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Has Pro Football Become “Greedball”?
Dec 3rd, 2007 | 6 responses
Even if you don’t care about the scuffle between the NFL Network and major cable companies, the chances are pretty good that you’ve heard at least something about it.
Because I work for a major cable company, I’m not going to offer a direct opinion on this subject, although you can probably divine my thoughts on the matter based on the two linked sources below.
The first is an editorial by prominent Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen, aired last week, prior to the NFC showdown between the Cowboys and Packers. (You’ll probably have to sit through a 15-second commercial before you can view Hansen’s commentary.)
The second is a blog entry last Friday by Steve Czaban, who hosts “The First Team on Fox” for nationally syndicated Fox Sports Radio.
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6 Responses to “Has Pro Football Become “Greedball”?”
Is the sky blue? Some of us not only asked your question but answered it correctly in the affirmative 20+ years ago.
Many people have, DLS. Amazingly, some have not.
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I stopped watching television 25+ years ago. (Too much low-IQ, low-quality, low-life garbage on it.) I bet many people have. Amazingly, some have not!
DLS – If you’re mocking me for my over-statement of the obvious, well … I probably deserve that.
Not mocking. It had me thinking of teevee in general, that’s all.
As far as programming content and your vocation, you’re giving ‘em what they want, I suppose.
I cannot escape teevee. If I go to a number of places around here there are large-screen teevee sports presentation (with commercials); where I used to live in Upstate there was a favorite bar run by a guy who liked all the best-known prime-time teevee shows (a good guy, just showing what most people wanted — the rest of us wanted to see C-SPAN or we would go there when the State of the Union speech was to be made or there was a pre-election convention so we could either cheer the people or tear them apart depending on which way we leaned).
I also liked the political commercials whenever there was a health-related funding vote in Albany, commercials showing — including with the most dumbed-down feature on the air today, fast motion — old women in walkers and wheelchairs ambling around a hospital lobby. (faster than the sped-up NFL post-game footage, to force as many different individuals past the camera, in the hospital lobby, as possible)