The Football Fan Spot

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I had a nice full meal and then I was planning on watching some football with the family. I knew the night game was Giants at Broncos yet when I scrolled my TV Guide, I could not find NFL football anywhere, only a college football matchup between Texas and Texas A&M. No offense to those two teams, but I wanted to watch some NFL football, plus I have already seen enough of Colt McCoy’s girl arm and Von Miller’s one pass rushing move this year. Where was the NFL football? I turned on my computer to figure this out and I saw what I had feared, the game was only being showed on the NFL Network, which, because I’m not made of money, I do not get.

I spent the next 15 minutes trying to find a place to watch the game online because the normal place I go to watch online when NFL network screws me over wasn’t working right and I finally found a place thanks to a very helpful Yahoo Answers poster. It was broadcast straight off the NFL’s website, but it was extremely slowing stream. I’d see Knowshon Moreno take over from the backfield then some choppy stuff and then see him tackled 15 yards downfield. Once the screen froze on Tom Coughlin’s perpetually frost bitten face for a good minute. Like that’s what I really want to see.

My screen was frozen with this image for a good minute

I’m sure I’m not the only one this happened to, in fact, I posted my frustration on my Facebook and Twitter and got a bunch of people who agreed with me. The NFL Network has been limiting what the common income family can watch for years and I never really had a problem with it because it was just the occasional Thursday game, but now they are ruining the Post Thanksgiving Dinner Football Watching (name pending) for all common income families on the West Coast. And what's so great about the NFL Network anyway. My friend has it and he told me that during one game, there was no audio for the first 5 minutes of the game. FAIL!

I am not saying what the NFL Network is doing is illegal because it’s not, but I was angry. I had to sit with my family around my laptop and watch a slow buffering game on a small screen on my computer just to watch some Post Thanksgiving Dinner Football. Well back to my game, oh wait, it’s frozen on a Lions/Packers highlight…and now it stopped working completely. I’m sure plenty of my readers have NFL Network horror stories too, so let’s hear them and once again Happy Thanksgiving.