I'm not talking about the plays or the players and not so much about the officiating but they play a significant part. Fox in New York runs commercials so much during the entire broadcast that when you do get to see four plays in a row it is cause for celebration. With officials time outs team time outs in after each change of possesion with injury time outs and hell even with Chris Albert doing his best Francessa impersonation and running ads for upcoming Fox broadcasts its not entertaining. It feels to me like I'm getting a 'sprinkling' of football(or a near facsimile of) in between all the ads. Then you have the officials who have inserted themselves into the outcome of games like at no other time and in no other sport its unbearable. I will say, when there were commercial breaks I'd switch over to CBS and nearly every time I could see the Jets game. For the first time this season, the Giants played a fairly entertaining game and it was just a brutal experience at least watching it in the NY market. So is it Fox, is it the fact that its the Giants and they are in a major media market with one of the largest fan bases or is it just me?
Doesn't work if you don't own the remote though.
It's just where the Giants are right now.
It's just where the Giants are right now.
Any other time in History except for the last 2 years I'd be confident he'd miss. Yesterday, I was pretty sure he'd nail it.
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football is mostly unwatchable to me because I've seen this movie a thousand times. Is there anyone that didn't know Gano would make that FG?
It's just where the Giants are right now.
Any other time in History except for the last 2 years I'd be confident he'd miss. Yesterday, I was pretty sure he'd nail it.
Any game clinching FG, whether its 51 or 75, will be good against us. I walked away and my Dad looked over and said he knew it before the kick too. It's the price we pay for "wide right, Giants win!"
It didn't seem like it yesterday. My 11 year old son and I BOTH noticed the difference between the Fox broadcast this week and the CBS on last week. We felt like there was one or two commercial breaks in the first quarter last week and this week it was non-stop commercials. He even commented that's why he likes MLB better! I remember as a kid baseball being too slow. Now I feel like watching football is too 'choppy'.
I have it DVR'd and I think I'm going to just go to watching it an hour or 2 after it starts.
But by most of your posts it seems it was just me.
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That’s part of the broadcast contract with the league I think and is the same across all the networks. They eliminated the break after the kickoff return this year (or was it last year).
It didn't seem like it yesterday. My 11 year old son and I BOTH noticed the difference between the Fox broadcast this week and the CBS on last week. We felt like there was one or two commercial breaks in the first quarter last week and this week it was non-stop commercials. He even commented that's why he likes MLB better! I remember as a kid baseball being too slow. Now I feel like watching football is too 'choppy'.
I have it DVR'd and I think I'm going to just go to watching it an hour or 2 after it starts.
But by most of your posts it seems it was just me.
It's still a lot of commercial breaks, you're right about that!
Funny, I was trending that way towards the end of last year. Then I started watching other teams where I didn't care the outcome. Could walk away and do other things (Yard work, cook, prep for the week). It was almost 'de-stressing' , lol...
For some reason, I've been glued to the damn Giants games even with their crappy play....
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That’s part of the broadcast contract with the league I think and is the same across all the networks. They eliminated the break after the kickoff return this year (or was it last year).
It didn't seem like it yesterday. My 11 year old son and I BOTH noticed the difference between the Fox broadcast this week and the CBS on last week. We felt like there was one or two commercial breaks in the first quarter last week and this week it was non-stop commercials. He even commented that's why he likes MLB better! I remember as a kid baseball being too slow. Now I feel like watching football is too 'choppy'.
I have it DVR'd and I think I'm going to just go to watching it an hour or 2 after it starts.
But by most of your posts it seems it was just me.
Comparing to last week is useless. You weren't alone in noticing there were barely any commercials in Q1 on the CBS NO game. They even commented on it from the booth. They were holding off on their regular commercial breaks because they were expecting a national audience to join the game. The game ran over scheduled time, and they couldn't figure out when to run a commercial break that might leave the national audience with several extra minutes of breaks. They like to take the national audience directly to a game so they don't lose them.
Just a weird, unusual instance last week. Definitely an outlier.
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That’s part of the broadcast contract with the league I think and is the same across all the networks. They eliminated the break after the kickoff return this year (or was it last year).
It didn't seem like it yesterday. My 11 year old son and I BOTH noticed the difference between the Fox broadcast this week and the CBS on last week. We felt like there was one or two commercial breaks in the first quarter last week and this week it was non-stop commercials. He even commented that's why he likes MLB better! I remember as a kid baseball being too slow. Now I feel like watching football is too 'choppy'.
I have it DVR'd and I think I'm going to just go to watching it an hour or 2 after it starts.
But by most of your posts it seems it was just me.
Comparing to last week is useless. You weren't alone in noticing there were barely any commercials in Q1 on the CBS NO game. They even commented on it from the booth. They were holding off on their regular commercial breaks because they were expecting a national audience to join the game. The game ran over scheduled time, and they couldn't figure out when to run a commercial break that might leave the national audience with several extra minutes of breaks. They like to take the national audience directly to a game so they don't lose them.
Just a weird, unusual instance last week. Definitely an outlier.
Actually, it was even worse than that last week. I live in Michigan and DVRd the game. Not only did they wait to finish the game, but they they went and showed the fucking overtime of Houston/Indianapolis. The entire thing. I was LIVID. They didn't switch to the game they were actually supposed to be showing until there were about 9 and a half minutes left in the 2nd quarter. Such bullshit.