I heard this today. I have no problem with this as I watch (DVR) a game when it counts. I watched the Monday Night Game via my DVR. It was the 8-2 Chiefs vs the 9-1 Eagles but never watched a commercial. I am not saying who won for you DVR guys.

I am an Amazon Prime member so I can watch their NFL games if I wanted to watch all of the commercials. Not me.

I will DVR all games and all content, or I am not going to watch it.
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I remember when all SCCA Trans-Am races were shown on the Speedvision Chaneel. I had a VCR back then. Those old races were awesome.

 

I can't watch 'live' NFL games at all anymore. Is it because I'm older and tired of the NFL 'woke' mentality or is too many freakin' ads and stoppages in play?? There is no flow at all. I can still watch live college games even though the ads are getting to be too much as well.

 

I have the DVR set for to games today. I am not sure if I'll watch them. The games will be on during the Thanksgiving dinner (my wife's cousin). It's three miles from my house so no travel issues.

I will watch the Ole Miss (SEC fan) game tonight. I start watching an hour and a half after the start time. My recorder will end with the live game. So basically, there is 1 1/2 hours of wasted time.

Big UGA game Saturday night. It's our hated State rival.

 

I quit watching the NFL when they decided to kneel for the National Anthem (EDITED).
I quit watching Basketball and Baseball for the stupid strikes basically saying "lets make 50 million in 2 years instead of just 10" and make the games to expensive for the masses.
Professional Sports to me is dead, still watch college but the money hungry kneeling SOB's in the Pros can do it without me.

 

I understand your decision.

I still like to watch football. I've never liked watching guys running in their shorts (basketball and soccer).

Soccer's main star is called PeeWee? Football has a middle linebacker named Dick Butkus. I like Butkus om my team in a bar fight.

 

I still remember my Mom telling us about sitting next to a guy with his knitting on the plane going from San Francisco to LA, Said his name was Rosey Grier and my Mom Basically said So What, is that supposed to mean something to her.

 

That is hysterical!!!

 

Hockey is still a wonderful game. The 'woke' BS has been somewhat eliminated when too many players would not wear the 'pride' crap on their warm up jerseys. The league had to cave and no more 'specialty' nights. They are just playing the games and leaving agendas out of it. The only negative in the recent past is women in the booth. It's mostly on ESPN which never should have received the NHL contract. Fortunately I watch my games on satellite with regional channels and males in the booth.

 

I say no. It has a limited audience for only guys that grew up where lakes and ponds would freeze. It's not here in the deep south.

I never learned the game. Most guys here went with the girl cheerleaders from the football games.

 

As far as action goes they are by far the most entertaining! And lately warm weather states have won it all sadly!

 

It's a game and nothing else,

 

Absolutely true and I wish I didn't take sports so seriously! But hockey IMHO is definitely the most action packed sport.

 

You definitely echo the GA and Atlanta crowd that lost both the Flames and Thrashers. To me it's unfortunate that such a wonderful game was chased out of town. I went to several games at Phillips arena and the place was dead.
When I lived in the Tampa Bay area, the Lightning started out real bad in 1992-1993 in a warm weather state as well. I had season tickets for many years. (yeah, I grew up with the sport and played high school hockey in the greater Boston area until the family moved to Florida in 1971). A few Lightning Stanley Cups starting in 2004 sure changed the feelings, and the current consecutive sellout streak is quite impressive.

 

Nailed it!! I have a feeling you remember the Lightning/Flyers series in 2004 when Primeau almost single handedly took the series to 7 games. One of the best playoff series ever, well for us Tampa fans anyway.

 

Absolutely I'm a diehard Philly everything fan. Flyers Stanley Cup champs first two times they played for it since then 0-6!!!

 

I am from the Cashman, Cheevers, Hodge (my Dad Helped Build his pool), Orr and Esposito era of the Bruins and did a little Goal tending back in the day but have not paid attention to Hockey for a bit now. Seems like every Strike I would loose a little more of a taste for it.

 

bread and circuses

plural noun
: a palliative offered especially to avert potential discontent


Examples of bread and circuses in a Sentence
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So part of this is a kind of bread and circuses campaign, right?
—The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023

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—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020

The Romans are famous for offering bread and circuses to their underprivileged citizens.
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De Blasio’s music-for-the-masses project comes terribly close to other progressive notions for making American life more socialist; urging people to think of themselves as masses is simple bread and circuses.
—Armond White, National Review, 20 Aug. 2021

The turmoil of the past year will fade into memory as the bread and circuses of ordinary life return to divert us.
—Jeff Stanard, National Review, 27 July 2021

In the Roman tradition of bread and circuses, sports were expected to placate the troubled population.
—Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2021

Democrats are betting this round of bread and circuses will win them the 2022 midterms.
—Karl Rove, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2021

NOUN
something, as extravagant entertainment, offered as an expedient means of pacifying discontent or diverting attention from a source of grievance
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Word origin
[1910–15; trans. of L pānis et circēnsēs; from a remark by the Roman satirist Juvenal on the limited desires of the Roman populace]

bread and circuses in British English

something offered as a means of distracting attention from a problem or grievance
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bread and circuses

used to describe a situation in which a government tries to take attention away from real problems or issues, by providing people with things which seem to make their lives more enjoyable
Metternich proceeded to neutralize political dissent through a policy of bread and circuses.


KC

 

Those were some teams. I like to throw Derek Sanderson's name in the mix too. I was at the Game 4 Cup Final in 1970, the last game I ever saw at Boston Garden before the family moved to FL. Somehow my Dad got tickets and even though I was at the other end of the ice, I did see Orr flying through the air. Unreal memories.
When Espo brought hockey to Tampa, I was all in. Here I am with him getting my season tickets at the Expo Hall in 1992.All those white things on the seats were the seats available for season tickets. They had kids on the ice learning to play. Espo did a great job introducing the game to the area and he still is involved with the franchise even today.

 

I don't like streaming. It requires me to watch 100 commercials.

I like the old broadcast with a DVR. I watch none of those silly stupid ads.

 

Streaming Back in The Day!