Pro Bowls 2
If you are watching college football today, you are indeed watching Pro Bowls.
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January 1, 2015 at 2:56 pm
Pretty much obvious. They should be formally paid. Having said that, the television slate of bowl games today show how grasping corporate America, the NCAA and the sports networks have become. I haven’t had television for three years but I can tell you that three years ago, I could still watch most college football game broadcasts on the web free at ESPN’s portal. Today, that’s all changed. Corporate America has taken complete control of the American web and it’s a toll road. 98 percent of the games are paywalled, requiring you to sign in using your cable tv provider account. Today, ESPN is offering the slate of bowl games free, but only on ESPN3 as a minimal stream called Skycam. You get a camera feed from behind the line of scrimmage of the team that has the ball and no play by play or instant replay feeds. You also cannot hear the announcer at the field. But you still get all the commercials in full HD in the breaks.
Now, go ahead, sneer at me for watching college football today. But I’m here by myself in Pasadena and that’s what I’m doing this afternoon before I try to get the Rose Bowl.
January 2, 2015 at 11:58 pm
If you want to watch football, go right ahead. I reckon that, in Pasadena, it’s a civic duty.
The reasons I stopped watching football have little do to with the play of the game and everything to do with the corruption of the NCAA and the NFL. The players are their victims.
That being said, there are lots of wonderful things to do if you don’t watch football, like watching Castle reruns and learning about Linux. (grin)
In other news, I learned today that Raymond Chandler’s “Bay City” was in actuality Santa Monica, which does not speak well for Santa Monica.