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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: NFL Weekend Friday, October 21, 2005 NFL Weekend I post about this every weekend, and I'm as sick off writing them as you are of (not) reading them. But Jesus Christ, they did it to me again. Sunday's NFL games on Bay Area TV: 10am, SF@Washington. 1pm, Buffalo@Oakland. And no, there's no third game on. Who could possibly want for more than those two examples of professional football excitement? The real suckery is that last week's Oakland home game featured San Diego, my fave team, and it was not on local TV. Yet this week, with the bland and boring Bills in town, it's on TV. WTF? I keep wondering why there are never two games on at the same time, and I thought maybe it was due to some sort of fan-fucking NFL on TV rule that when the local team is on TV, there can't be another game competing with it. Such a rule would make no sense, but even beside that, it doesn't exist. There are two late games on next week in San Diego, and KC@SD is one of them. Is it some special rule only for markets with two teams? Why would they do that anyway, essentially forcing forcing fans to watch the local team or no football at all? Don't higher ratings = higher commercial rates? It's like some football widows sneaked in that provision to encourage yard work and vehicular maintenence. Also, what happens when the 49ers and Raiders have home or road games at the same time? Are they both on? Wouldn't there have to be a third game on that Sunday, to fill the other time slot? In the NFL's defense (if you can call it that), it's sort of a perfect storm weekend, with no Sunday night game at all, and an absolute slew of terrible matchups. Contests include an NFC North showdown between 1-4 powers, two games where both teams are 2-3, another one where both are 2-4, and a 1-4 vs. a 2-4. In fact, of the 14 games this weekend, just 3 feature two teams with winning records, and neither of those are available on my television. Even the Monday night game sucks, thanks to the Jets' ongoing disaster of a season, so perhaps I'll show inner strength and skip the NFL entirely this weekend, and just concentrate on my novel. The real irony may hit next weekend, since I'll be visiting the parents down in San Diego. Every weekend I've checked (including this one) there have been three good games on TV in SD, compared to 2 shitty ones on here. I won't be surprised if that reverses next week, and it's the one weekend of the season when better games are on in the Bay Area. That seems unlikely, since I'll at least be guaranteed of seeing KC@SD next Sunday, but the fact that I'll have to watch it with my perpetually gloom-prophesizing father might cost it some bonus points. Posted by: Flux # 4:11 AM Comments: PS: Curious, I just looked over the whole year's schedule, week by week, and SF and Oakland never play at the same time all season. I wouldn't have thought that was possible, with them being in the same city, but they almost always alternate home and away games, and the once or twice they're both home one of the games is Sunday night, or Saturday, late in the season. That obviously can't be an accident, so the NFL must schedule it that way. Just to shoot down my "kill two shitbirds with one rock" dream, I suspect. They're always one step ahead, when it comes to forcing me to watch Bay Area teams play and denying me quality TV options. #: 4:43 AM posted by Flux Saw this yesterday: "The Raiders announced Wednesday that Sunday's game against Buffalo at the Coliseum will be blacked out on local television. The team would not say how many tickets remained unsold." Not sure if the situation has changed since then. I wouldn't mind the Broncos-Giants game... #: 12:51 AM posted by Anonymous The online listings here still show Buff@Oak on channel 5 at 1pm. Unfortunately, if it is blacked out CBS would have to show another game from an AFC stadium, which rules out Dallas@Seattle and Denver@NYG. It's not all bad though; it keeps me from potentially having to suffer through the tooth-pulling ordeal that will be Baltimore@Chi. There is a 2nd late AFC game though... Tennessee @ Phoenix. I am truly cursed. #: 1:57 AM posted by Flux Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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