Titans at Dolphins no Tv?

I think i'd rather watch tennis than the Dolphins play offense.

 

Are you sure they're not showing it?

 

I went to check directtv.com and they didn't have it scheduled, but it was still scheduled for Sunday, so maybe they haven't rescheduled it?

 

Whever a game is switched like this from one day to another i have noticed that they have to try and get air time from the stations becuase they slotted certain times for Sunday already and now they switch so regularly programmed shows for 12pm will have to be moved over for them to get on TV. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

I have seen that with the astros before and some other games. It's all about scheduling and with College football being on saturday at the same time i am sure it's going to be hard to get air time unless they go to an alternate station on direct tv or something.

 

I'm sure DirecTV will offer a rebate or something due to this turn of events... they're pretty good about that sort of thing. Plus, even if you wanted to quit, you couldn't get NFL sunday ticket from anybody else other than DirecTV, so why would you let one moved game on the schedule influence your decision that much?

Of course, we do have to keep in mind the big picture here... this game is being re-scheduled due to a catastrophic hurricaine that has already killed over 15 people, and is about to hit an area already decimated by two previous hurricaines, causing billions of dollars worth of property damage.

Football programming is probably the last thing on both the league, and the respective team's minds... they just want to get the game played and done with, so they can focus more on keeping themselves, and their respective families safe.

EDIT: I just checked on their website that they will be showing the "replay" of the game during its normal scheduled time on Sunday. So, if they don't end up showing it live tommorow, just be very careful not to find out the score, and watch it on sunday as if it was live.

 

if it's not on tv here.. ill be a happy man

 

Its only on in the Titans and Dolphins viewing areas on CBS. The rest of us are forced to watch men's tennis. I hate the Titans, but at least its football, and I might be able to see the Titans lose.

Men's tennis is as dramatic as a ham sandwich.

If you have an old school satellite you may be able to watch the game...and afterwards you can skake in it.

 

I wouldn't count on it. I am sure WKRN-Channel 2 will show it.

 

hmm well..

I suppose I can live with it.. I was told since I live in Nashville most the year I should like titans. to that I said HAHAHAH..

manny . are you a titans fan at all?

 

Well I thought about this the other day...

My #1 team in the NFL is the Broncos - have been since '83 when Elway joined the team. I mean if the Titans were in Nashville 20 years ago, I probably would have them as my #1 team. But I am not going to quit rooting for my team just because some local team came into the area.

I will say this though - most of the time I am indifferent about how the Titans do, but in the playoffs, I will pull for them if the Broncos are not in it or have been eliminated.

 

living in nashville has helped me get even more disdain for the titans!

bring on college basketball season, i dont care about any of the nashville pro teams

 

Dan Patrick was talking about this on the radio on 610.

Due to College and High school football games being on Friday and Saturday, the NFL is not to telivise any football games on those days. He got the Vice President of Public relations of the NFL to explain it. I caught the last part of it. The NFL told Directv not to put it on DIRECT ticket.

I don't have it, but I would be pissed if I paid all that money and did not get to see the game. I would like to see the titans.

I think they are going to replay it Sunday however, don't really know if that helps.

 

hmm i get CBS on my C-band sattelite here at the bar from all the different areas so i can check right around 12 when the game starts to see if i get a signal and post it on here for anyone that interested in watching the game.

 

Okay on ESPN it has CBS listed as the TV broadcast for the game. Im sure it is just regional so i am off to the bar right now to check if i can pull up the feed on my c-band.

I won't know until right at 12 pm when the feed starts so i will make a post on here and whoever is interested they can come up and watch the game....pretty full lineup with Cubs, Astros, this game and College football all at the same time.

 

The game is only being shown in Miami and Tenessee.

 

Yeah but i can pull up every CBS feed via C-Band Sattelite..not direct TV and Dishnetwork...it's the old school sattelite...i use it all the time to get more college games....so i might be able to pull up the CBS from Tennesse or Miami.

 

NFL, DIRECTV SCREW TITANS, FINS FANS

We know that this is an issue that affects the fans of only two of the league's 32 teams. And we know that it doesn't apply to the fans of the teams who reside in the Miami and/or Nashville areas, who'll see the contest on live television. But we are abso-frickin'-lutely astounded, pissed off, flabbergasted, disappointed, apoplectic, flummoxed, and amazed at the decision of the NFL and DirecTV not to broadcast the Ivan-induced Saturday afternoon game between the Titans and the Dolphins live on DirecTV.

It's bull****, quite frankly -- and this time we're just mad enough to leave the "i" in there.

Few fans buy the DirecTV package so they can simultaneously watch a dozen NFL games by splitting the signal to a Snoop-Dogg wall of monitors in the boom-boom room. Most spend the money because they live in a city where their favorite team is rarely on the tube.

Hell, the NFL even has admitted to its motive for preventing the game from being shown via satellite. According to the L.A. Times, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello conceded that the league didn't want the Titans-Dolphins game to be shown nationally, so as not to hurt the ratings for college football games.

Basically, the NFL needs to keep its nose in the ass of the networks as it negotiates a new broadcast-rights package with the same folks who don't want the numbers for their Saturday afternoon college football broadcasts to be diluted by all those football viewers out there who would, at a minimum, put the NFL game in the split screen instead of Sourthern Miss at Nebraska (yawn), UCLA at Illinois (snore), UNLV at Wisconsin (zzzz), or Arizona St. at Northwestern (fart).

But it's wrong, we think, to sell people the DirecTV package under the premise that they get to see all of the games live -- and then yank away 1/16th of the value for people who plunk down their coin primarily (if not exclusively) for the right to view all of the Titans' games or all of the Dolphins' games.

What's that, you say? The game will be on DirecTV. Sure -- on tape delay at 1:00 p.m. EDT Sunday, the precise moment when nine other games will be starting.

Each of those, by the way, won't have already been played to completion.

You'd think that the NFL would have learned its lesson after it agreed to a multi-million-dollar settlement of an antitrust claim based on allegations that it illegally forced fans to purchase the entire season of "Sunday Ticket" programming, preventing folks from buying it on a week-to-week basis.

This little incident could spawn yet another class action against the league, on behalf of all out-of-market Titans and Dolphins fans who hope to recover 1/16th of the total amount of the $219 that they paid for the season. At $13.69 per consumer and with a class as small as 100,000 members, the total exposure would more than double the looming financial fallout from the Janet Jackson boob drop at the Super Bowl.

Then again, maybe the NFL is choosing the lesser of two evils here. A class action lawsuit is an amorphous possibility that may or may not ever come to fruition. Pissing off the folks who feed the cash cow, on the other hand, would have more immediate and costly consequences, especially as the league and the network do the preliminary, pre-negotiation dance as to contracts that expire after the 2005 season.

The obvious (but still not fair) solution would have been to show the game on tape-delay on the NFL Network. But that would cause two problems. First, unless they start rolling the video at 2:00 a.m. EDT, they'll be infringing somewhere, somehow on a college football game broadcast on one of the networks (at a minimum, Fox's cable network) that the league is hoping to fleece out of another billion or so. Second, lifting the game off of DirecTV would serve only to highlight the fact that the Titans-Dolphins fans who purchased "Sunday Ticket" weren't getting what they thought they were buying.

Which, in turn, would make the legal claims against the NFL and DirecTV even easier to prove.

And before all of you tort-reformers out there bombard us with e-mails saying that such a lawsuit would be frivolous, think of it this way -- if you buy a dozen eggs and one of them isn't in the carton, aren't you legally entitled to the missing egg?

And if those eggs cost $13.69 each, wouldn't you ask the grocery store to pay it back?

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