As I've gotten older, my enthusiasm for sports on TV has waned. That said I still enjoy some. Given we're in the season for college bowl and playoff games, I'm pretty pissed as a recent cord cutter that ESPN has scooped 95% of them up requiring $$$$ if you wanna watch.

Well F$%^& ESPN! I'm sick of this shit. So yeah, I'll do something else and simply forget the annual games. Again F#$%^& ESPN, you asshats!


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Growing up, one of the traditions that we had in our house was watching bowl games on New Years Day.

I just checked and there is only one game on local television on New Years Day. The rest are on ESPN.

I did just watch a little of Iowa State vs ND but since I do not have cable, or any of the streaming services I will not get to watch LSU vs OU or my alama Mater take on Clemson.

After all the SJW and political agendas that ESPN has pushed over the years I will not pay a dime to watch that channel.

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Originally posted by mrapteam666:


After all the SJW and political agendas that ESPN has pushed over the years I will not pay a dime to watch that channel.

Absolutely! F#$%^& ESPN!

TuneIn to the rescue....listening to the game broadcast on radio on my desktop. Clemson vs Ohio State.

Left to right across your radio dial. At least you are spared that annoying Kirk Herbstreit.

Where I live , there wasn't hardly a place of business that didn't have the Peach Bowl on a TV somewhere .

^^^
He lives in the Great White North. Probably broadcasting curling or hockey on the local channels.

Yep.
Free HD coverage of the world or at least what you want is the future.

(Hint; Sigforum is an anomaly]

Don't blame ESPN for out-bidding the broadcast networks. If you want to be angry at somebody, be angry at the schools that sold to the highest bidder. Maybe they once had sports programs for the sake of the sports, but it's certainly all about the money now.

ensigmatic,
Oh I agree... follow the money.
Still that was one hell of a game even on radio!

Paying for a service? The NERVE of a person
/ company!!!!

Thanks to bald1, I had never heard of TuneIn before so I turned to google and found it.

I stopped listening at half time and went to bed thinking that Ohio State had won since at that time they seemed to have the momentum.

It is quite a surprise to wake up and read that OSU lost.

I don't mind paying for services, I just have a problem with ESPN.
Plus I spent my allowance on two great knives I bought from a forum member (which arrived on Thursday).

Every year I watch fewer and fewer games.
I am paying nearly 200 per month for TV and internet. I am convinced, especially in college football, that winners are picked and games are manipulated. The teams and conferences not "chosen" are simply monkeys in someone else's circus.

I feel more like I'm watching a drama show where the end has been written and I am being led to the "shocking" end. to me it it has become a wasted 3.5 hours, several times a week.

I think this might be the year I say goodbye and cut the chord.

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I am convinced, especially in college football, that winners are picked and games are manipulated. The teams and conferences not "chosen" are simply monkeys in someone else's circus.

^^^^^^^^^^
Nah. That is WWE not college ball. The mob did get into BC basketball with point shaving and some players went to jail. That was back when the wise guys controlled sports book. The legalization of Sports Book has made that sort of thing more difficult.

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Originally posted by mrapteam666:
Thanks to bald1, I had never heard of TuneIn before so I turned to google and found it.

I stopped listening at half time and went to bed thinking that Ohio State had won since at that time they seemed to have the momentum.

It is quite a surprise to wake up and read that OSU lost.

I don't mind paying for services, I just have a problem with ESPN.

Glad to be of help expanding your tool kit with TuneIn.

And yeah, I've done that many times in the past. Always a shock the next day!

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
Paying for a service? The NERVE of a person
/ company!!!!

Oh give me a break! LOL

You must admit things have radically changed over the years with regard to what we now have to pay for that was previously free.

And then what you pay for often is polluted with leftwing crap like ESPN. PASS!

The beginning of the end for me (and my first major 'f%ck that') regarding this stuff was the disappearance of Monday Night Football from OTA ABC affiliates.
The end of the end was Krappernick's taking of the knee.
If you don't watch live sports or cable news, not much reason left to give those cable idiots money.
So I been out for a while now.

Money, money, money. Money!
The O'Jays - For The Love of Money

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
Paying for a service? The NERVE of a person
/ company!!!!

Lol I was thinking this the whole time I was reading the thread. It sucks to have to pay for things that were previously free, but it’s no different than when you used to get 25 min of tv show and 5 min or commercials in a 30 min segment now it’s 25 min of commercials and 5 min show. Instead of the broadcasters talking for a few seconds now during 30sec timeouts they play a mini/half screen 15 second commercial so they will try to squeeze in as much revenue as they can.

I'm probably getting crotchety in my old age, but I have lost all interest in college sports.

When I was younger, I liked watching the bowl games. Perhaps it was the innocence of my youth, but to me, these were students first, and athletes second. Technology and money has inserted itself so deeply into "amateur" sports to the degree they aren't "amateur" at all!

Oh, I know that for the majority of players, the bowl game may be the last organized game they ever play! I mean, what is the success rate of a college player turning pro? Two percent, from what I read. Still, I can't help but be turned off by the professional-level sponsorships, the latest and greatest of video technology, the instant replays, and the rest.

Maybe because even at my age (68) I engage in sporting events (I'll be running a 5K in about an hour), I don't particularly care to watch others, anyway.

This is bullshit. Back in the day, like last week, and before, of course, if your home team was playing Monday or Thursday night football, or your college team in a bowl game, it was on one of the local channels. Times are a changing. I guess paying for internet isn’t enough. At least I can see the score!