Posted on 01/24/2010 10:32:20 AM PST by Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo
I have checked almost every news outlet on the web - to include Google News, Yahoo Answers, CBS.com, FOX.com, even NFL.com itself - and NONE of them will tell me the true starting times of the games today.
I know that they do this to try to maximize their Nielsen ratings for as long a time period as possible, but the level of deceit, duplicity, disingenousness and societal thought control in this unified front of media dishonesty is absolutely infuriating to me.
For instance, look at this screen capture from nfl.com:
Notice anything missing?
Like the starting times of today's games?!?
From massive googling, I am led to believe that CBS's coverage of the Jets-Colts game today MIGHT start at around 3:00PM, but if I tune in at 3:00PM [or set the DVR to start recording at 3:00PM], then will the kickoff be within the next five minutes, or am I going to be subjected to 45 minutes of mindless, idiotic, sychophantic blather, and crass, disgusting, materialistic commercials before the players actually take the field?
God, this is infuriating.
it was broadcast last sunday and i watched it which was the first time
i had seen it since i was nine years old. heidi was the daughter of
blake edwards. and jean simmons, who died this past week,
was in it.
I plan to turn on the game at 3:00, pop a brewsty, if the insane banter is going on, I turn down the sound until the game actually starts.
Says 12:30 for the Colts/Jets and 3:30 for Vikings/Saints in the Seattle area PST, so ....
It'll be hard for him to throw left-handed. Did they ever find his right arm? Will we still see him in every commercial, or will they actually film one without him?
ps - try TVGuide on the Internet for your area -
You are not alone.
Last week I went nuts looking for the actual kickoff times. I refuse to watch those pregame shows with their inane blather. It is almost as if the pregame show is more important than the game. And, of course, there are endless commercials.
I don’t know if you saw that study posted on FR last week that determined the amount of time during a football game that the players are actually handling the ball was 11 minutes. 11 minutes!
11 minutes, of a 60 minutes football game that is spread out over 3+ hours. So you know what the rest of the time is spent doing.
Vikings @ Saints
Sunday, January 24, 2010
5:40 PM CT
Louisiana Superdome; New Orleans, La.
FOX
The Colts were not so accomodating - though I suspect the 10-15 minute lag from start to kickoff holds true their also.
LOL i remember that... this made my preacher-father very, very,,aaaaa, perplexed...
Lighten up Francis. You turn the TV on at 3 pm Eastern and then do chores until you hear what sounds like a kick off. Nobody is forcing you to watch the TV just because it’s on.
Surely McGeek could hack into the NFL magic game scheduler program and give you the actual time?
>>It’ll be hard for him to throw left-handed. Did they ever find his right arm?<<
Not sure, but you know how fans are about souvenirs. It should actually boost his commercials — the symapht factor and all.
I think it is clear that he will be able to play using the new “Brady/Manning Rule” where they finally put the QB in a dress with flags on the side...
They’ll probably have some celebrity over-sing the National Anthem before the game, so that should take about 20 minutes.
If you go to nfl.com home page and move your mouse over the scheduled games it changes to show the times of the games.
Jets / Ind at 3:00 PM - CBS
Min / NO at 6:40 PM - Fox
Go to Google News, or Yahoo News, or Bing, and spend a while searching, and see whether you can find a definitive answer to the question.
These MSM people know the answer, but they are unified in their conspiracy to withhold the answer from us.
And I find that to be not only infuriating in a pedestrian sort of way [how am I supposed to plan an afternoon if I don't know the kickoff to within a window of +/- 45 minutes?] but also really disturbing in a what-it-portends-for-society sort of way.
If they can become united to withhold from us a piece of information as trivial as a kickoff time, then it's no wonder that we have a communist like Barack Hussein Obama in the Oval Office.
Yeah, my money is on 3:20
Look at the bright side...NBC isn’t broadcasting either game, so you won’t wind up with 45 minutes of Olbermann’s pre-game bullsh*t on your DVR if scheduling is screwed up... :-)
” Don’t you think it’s a little bizarre that I can Google literally tens of thousands of news outlets but that NONE of them will tell me the kickoff time?
And you wonder why the American public never heard of William Ayers before Tuesday, November 4, 2008?
This Game Theoretic idea that there can’t be unified conspiracies is simply idiotic - the whole modern world [as presented to us by the MSM] seems like one great big unified conspiracy. “
Great comedy!
Of all important things one could worry about; and we have conspiracies to cover up NFL kick off times!!
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No kidding. Too bad about Bret Favre, though. Who'd have thunk it?