What "real" sports sucks

[Todd]

Here I am all set to watch The Simpsons and Futurama on Fox and I tune in 5 minutes early to get the TV all warmed up. Whats playing a football game. Football sucks but thats irrelevant. The score said 4th quarter and 2 minuts 36 seconds left. I tuned back in 5 minutes later 2 minutes 30 seconds left. Pissed I turned the channel and watched Code Blue on TLC. I turn back 20 minutes later less than a minute has passed in the game. That is just plain screwed up the dingdong. If a clock says 2 minutes and 30 seconds it should not take 30 freaking minutes to play out.

Either they have to get a clock that works in real time or take the freaking sports of TV, its not summer anymore, these are brand new episodes of Futurama and Simpsons, and King of the Hill that I am missing here people. For what, to see some fat piece of donut meat chase a piece of synthtic pig skin for a million dollars a person.

 

[SexyCanadianGuy]

Amen, brother!!

I'm with you 100%. Simpsons and Futurama are two of my favorite shows. I hate giving my hopes up to football.
But of course, sponsors have to get their time too. I agree. BUY BETTER CLOCKS!!! YOU'RE THE $&^#ING NFL!!!

*lol*

 

[April]

Poor Todd. LOL

I admire your vehemence, though! I get pissed when sports interrupt my programs, too. It really sucks.

 

[Todd]

I know the sponsors have to have thier time but 30 minutes to play out 2 1/2 minutes of game time.

So what if ia guy breaks his legs, keep the clock running play the game around him and the ambulance that comes out to take him off the field.

And whats with showing one play from 500 different camera shots?

Learn from the WWF split screen the action, keep the clock /match going and show the replay in a corner of the screen.

You don't see the wrestlers stop wrestling while they replay the last big move that was made. The action keeps going.

Owen Hart had his fatal dive from the rafters, did they stop the PPV, no they kept the action moving.

 

[Cheyenne]

Duck everyone- here come the Europeans to tell you that isn't football on the tube in the first place!

 

[Sammyjo]

Sort of on topic...don't you hate when they interrupt your soaps for "Late Breaking News"?

2 pm: So far, the independent parties have counted 12 ballots.

Commercial

2:15 pm: The count is up to 30

Commercial

2:30 pm: Wow, they have counted a whole 45 ballots

Commercial

2:45 pm: I've missed 45 minutes of Guiding Light because some idiots don't know how to fucking vote...AND I don't care who is counting, what they are counting, or why they are counting...we don't need 15 minute updates.

3:00 pm: I am now entirely pissed. I am ready to throw something at someone...I don't care who it is, the next person to talk to me is going to die!!!

BTW: You can replace the ballot counting scenario with just about any other "late breaking news" I mean, someone in the White House takes a dump and it's a national headline...who the fuck cares? Give me my soap, break into Sally Jessy Raphael...we all know what her story line for the day is going to be...and it ain't going to be male strippers.

 

[Friendly Dragon]

Duck everyone- here come the Europeans to tell you that isn't football on the tube in the first place!

Well I'm glad someone realises it's not proper football you're playing over there!

I'm actually a fan of (American) football but I really can't stand watching it when it's live, because it really drags then.

Still, it could be worse, it could be cricket. A game than can last for days only to be a tie at the end, and where the big plays are often greeted with polite clapping from the fans

 

[OUTSIDER]

Your right...

It's not real football and cricket is a game for gentlemen.

 

[Weird Harold]

Still, it could be worse, it could be cricket. A game than can last for days ...

Can last for days? Hell, Cricket is scheduled to last for days!

"I'll only be a minute dear," Hubby says.

"Yes, Dear. Will that be a 'football minute,' a 'basketball minute,' or a 'real minute?' I need to know how long I have to fix my makeup."

 

[SexyCanadianGuy]

If I watched soap operas, I'd probably be pissed too.
Some sport games are WAAAAAY too long. But TV has found some miraculous way to stretch a 1 1/2 game into 3 hours. If you are into sports, power to you. I just don't like broadcasted sports.


Wouldn't it be funny to see some of the reactions on the faces of sports fans if they started showing repeats of sport broadcasts??

"We now bring you Hockey Night in Canada! December 15, 1997"

 

[April]

LMFAO Try ESPN Classic! All repeats, all the time. LOL

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Like this board,
those networks are free tv.
No one has the right to gripe about free.
Those shows will be on again

and again

and again

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[Todd]

free tv I pay 24$ a month in order to watch them, the only free station here in new brunsiwck is the French channel which comes in perfect even with out of an antenna.

 

[Guest]

Fuck you Todd, the NFL rules. Now come with me to the Outback Steakhouse for a bloomin' onion.

 

[Closet Desire]

Cricket...

...a game invented by the British which nobody in Britain understands and won by everyone except the British.

 

[ShyGuy68]

I think that soccer sucks big time!!! I never have and never will get to like that sport!!

 

[Morgoth]

The only time I ever played soccer was 2 years ago. I found I was naturally good at kicking stuff. So... I quit and joined karate, became a black belt, and still got to kick stuff. And by the way, football RULES!!!!!! Except when they make too many instant replays so that they don't turn instant anymore.