I hate you Seattle

[Drakkon]

Come to Vegas - you can watch ALL the games on giant 100ft screens at the same time for 8 hrs on Sunday while sitting in a recliner and drinking $5 beers served by pretty waitresses. It gets even better on Monday when they get the strippers from around town to come out and watch the game with you (they know only to talk during commercials) and at half time put on a show

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Hippies everywhere....football problems....NO CHEESESTEAKS

I'm dying.

Let me know if you want to go plant trees this Sunday in the woods at 1pm.

 

[lupi]

Um, you're complaining about the NFL schedule while living in pacific time zone, talk about a case of needing to DIAF. I'd hate to watch the sunday and monday night games to completion and then settle down a bit before heading to bed.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: lupi
Um, you're complaining about the NFL schedule while living in pacific time zone, talk about a case of needing to DIAF. I'd hate to watch the sunday and monday night games to completion and then settle down a bit before heading to bed.

Someone's got some sand in her nether regions. PST NFL schedule blows. Being that I'm not an 80 year old man I'm capable of staying up till midnight to watch the end of MNF, and being that I have a "job" I'm usually not home at 5:30pm when they start here.

 

[GregGreen]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Why don't we get doubleheader games here?? If you look at the distribution maps, Seattle is the only part of the country that doesn't get two games, for the 2nd week in a row. I mean...we get 2 games, but not at once. So there is one game on CBS at 1, and one game on Fox at 4.

I don't like it. I also don't like getting up at 8am to watch pregame shows. Or leaving work early to catch the beginning of MNF.

I hate this city right now.

What you are describing actually happens in every NFL market throughout the country. When there is a home game on, the networks are not allowed to show another game (NFL/Team Owner's rules). Just be glad you aren't in NYC or the Bay Area -- they have this just about every week since they have two home teams...

Also, living on the west coast probably makes it more noticeable. You usually have an out of market game as an early game and then the in market game later. On the East Coast we usually have an early game as a local market game and then what seems like a national game (they always show teams that are doing well or popular). This last paragraph is all subjective though -- I personally think this way, but it is probably because I am used to seeing the Bills play in the early time slot

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: GregGreen

Originally posted by: Deeko
Why don't we get doubleheader games here?? If you look at the distribution maps, Seattle is the only part of the country that doesn't get two games, for the 2nd week in a row. I mean...we get 2 games, but not at once. So there is one game on CBS at 1, and one game on Fox at 4.

I don't like it. I also don't like getting up at 8am to watch pregame shows. Or leaving work early to catch the beginning of MNF.

I hate this city right now.

What you are describing actually happens in every NFL market throughout the country. When there is a home game on, the networks are not allowed to show another game (NFL/Team Owner's rules). Just be glad you aren't in NYC or the Bay Area -- they have this just about every week since they have two home teams...

Certainly wasn't that way in Philly. If an Eagles game was on Fox, there were games on CBS all the time. And look at that map I posted - Seattle and Denver are the only places that don't have a doubleheader.

 

[GregGreen]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: GregGreen

Originally posted by: Deeko
Why don't we get doubleheader games here?? If you look at the distribution maps, Seattle is the only part of the country that doesn't get two games, for the 2nd week in a row. I mean...we get 2 games, but not at once. So there is one game on CBS at 1, and one game on Fox at 4.

I don't like it. I also don't like getting up at 8am to watch pregame shows. Or leaving work early to catch the beginning of MNF.

I hate this city right now.

What you are describing actually happens in every NFL market throughout the country. When there is a home game on, the networks are not allowed to show another game (NFL/Team Owner's rules). Just be glad you aren't in NYC or the Bay Area -- they have this just about every week since they have two home teams...

Certainly wasn't that way in Philly. If an Eagles game was on Fox, there were games on CBS all the time. And look at that map I posted - Seattle and Denver are the only places that don't have a doubleheader.

It is NFL rules that this exists. It is in their agreements with the networks. I did check the maps and you may have been the only places that didn't have a double header last week, but you are also the only west coast teams that played at home last week. It does happen in EVERY NFL market, its just that you happened to notice it while no one else really had it happen.

ALSO, SF did not have the double header, because they also had a home game...

 

[GregGreen]

One more point: if you actually look at the maps, Washington and Charlotte missed out on doubleheaders because they had late home games in WK2 and Pittsburgh, Nashville, and NYC missed out in Week 1! In addition, in week 3, Washington, Minnesota, and Chicago miss out on doubleheaders... all due to having home games at that time period

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Why don't we get doubleheader games here?? If you look at the distribution maps, Seattle is the only part of the country that doesn't get two games, for the 2nd week in a row. I mean...we get 2 games, but not at once. So there is one game on CBS at 1, and one game on Fox at 4.

I don't like it. I also don't like getting up at 8am to watch pregame shows. Or leaving work early to catch the beginning of MNF.

I hate this city right now.

NO NO NO.

Chicago likes to black out the double header as well.
God forbid you want to watch anything other than Lions v Bengals....

 

[Deeko]

I've been watching football for a long time now, and I can assure you - there were games on at the same time as Eagles games all the time in Philly.

 

[PowerEngineer]

Originally posted by: Deeko
Hippies everywhere....football problems....NO CHEESESTEAKS

I'm dying.

Cheesesteaks... The only thing I miss about Philly!

I absolutely love the 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. football games, and we usually get a double header in Portland (even if the Seahawk game is always one of them).

 

[GregGreen]

Originally posted by: Deeko
I've been watching football for a long time now, and I can assure you - there were games on at the same time as Eagles games all the time in Philly.

Maybe, but it was definitely this way last season... I think they signed a new broadcast deal before last season.

 

[BALIstik916]

that's weird man here in sacramento we always get 3 games every sunday because of raiders/niners/chargers and even if one has a bye we'll still get some other game

 

[SludgeFactory]

Originally posted by: Deeko
I've been watching football for a long time now, and I can assure you - there were games on at the same time as Eagles games all the time in Philly.

It looks like the CBS blackout happened in the Philadelphia market 2 times in 2006 and 3 times in 2007. I remember this happening in Atlanta, as well as the flip side, when they couldn't sell out the stadium and Fox was blacked out, so you got screwed out of the NFC doubleheader.

You probably just didn't get as much of a taste of blackouts there in Philly in recent years because of all the primetime games the Eagles seem to get, since they've been good and the networks always have a boner for NFC East matchups and try to get them on SNF and MNF.