NFL Game Selection — Today’s Stink
Posted by OmniSports | Posted in Grid Iron, NFL, Sports Geek | Posted on 18-10-2009
Tags: carolina panthers, Football, fox 50, new orleans saints, new york giants, NFL, tampa bay bucs, TV, washington redskins, wral, wraz
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One of the things that we have to look forward to on Sundays during the fall is a great day of NFL football. On Sunday, October 18, 2009, one of those great games was the New York Giants at the New Orleans Saints. Both teams have started the season on fire. Saints quaterback Drew Brees is making his fantasy owners happy with the mileage (not yardage) and the Giants start the day at 5-0 and looking strong.
The OmniSports Geek, lives in Raleigh, NC. Our local Pro teams would include the Carolina Panthers and the Washington Redskins. So I can understand why WRAL and WRAZ would choose to cover the local teams since that’s where the fan base is. Today’s Redskins matchup is with the 0-5 Kansas City Chiefs, pitting a winless team against a 2-3 team. Their two wins were against the 0-5 St. Louis Rams and the 0-5 Tampa Bay Bucs. Two of their 3 losses are against the 1-3 Carolina Panthers and the 1-4 Detroit Lions. Needless to say this game is going to be as anemic of a pro-football game as there can be.
But wait, the other game is the 0-5 Tampa Bay Buc’s going up against the 1-3 Carolina Panthers, two of the other most anemic teams in the league.
Okay, I get it. NC TV should carry the Panthers game because they are the local team and the fan base needs to see the games through thick and thin. But Washington is further away. Surely some local exec could make a decision to show the Houston/Cincinnati game or the Pittsburgh/Cleveland game. There are a ton of Pittsburgh fans here in Raleigh, perhaps more than Redskin fans.Come on, get off these lame games and get us to games that will matter come playoff time and with exciting offenses.
Now I do subscribe to DirecTV and could get Sunday Ticket, but its pretty expensive on our current budget. Ironically DISH network advertises that they give you 100+ free games. These are of course the games the Networks carry, so DISH subscribers in our area are stuck with the lame games too.
So I’m enjoying Lynyrd Skynyrd in concert on HDNet. Maybe the 4pm game will be more attractive.
