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12-26-2007, 04:03 PM
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| | Straight cash, homey...
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| John Kerry: 250,000 denied the right to see Pats/Giants game
We've all heard of the 40 million that are denied health insurance, now Kerry is championing the "rights" of sports viewers... The Swamp: Kerry threatens NFL if Patriots-Giants not on NBC Quote:
With the New England Patriots now one win away from finishing the regular season undefeated, Sen. John Kerry is stepping up his campaign to get the final game broadcast on national television.
The contest Saturday with the New York Giants is to air locally in Boston and New York. But outside those markets it is scheduled to appear only on the NFL Network, a cable channel that reaches just 35 million households nationwide while the league and cable operators dicker over pricing and distribution.
Kerry asked football Commissioner Roger Goodell today to move the game to NBC – and threatened Senate hearings if he does not. | Quote: |
Kerry wrote. “But as someone who represents all of Massachusetts and not just those in the Boston media market, I remain deeply troubled that today as many as 250,000 Massachusetts households, and millions of Patriots fans nationwide, may be denied access to this historic sporting event. …
| Wow... why wasn't he this persistent when he was warned about the security risks at Logan Airport?  | 
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12-26-2007, 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by rwemyss   This is laughable. If people want to see the game, they can PURCHASE a cable package which has NFL Network... or heaven forbid, go to a sports bar that has the game on.  | Thank you..Go Pats!!!  | |
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12-26-2007, 04:20 PM
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| Or they can watch it online like I do. NFL.com will have the game streaming most likely. You have to suffer through numerous "let's go back to the studio...." moments and you miss some plays because of it.
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12-26-2007, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by myrobbins7 Go Pats!!! | Communist
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12-26-2007, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by TheGimp Communist |  | |
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12-26-2007, 05:08 PM
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| | Straight cash, homey...
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| Wow... ESPN - Pats-Giants to be first three-network simulcast game in NFL history - NFL Quote: |
The league announced Wednesday that the NFL Network feed will be simulcast on NBC and CBS. It's a major concession by league officials, who repeatedly said they would not show the game anywhere but the NFL Network. The NFL had faced mounting pressure from lawmakers in recent weeks to make the game available to more viewers. |
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12-26-2007, 05:35 PM
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| | Straight cash, homey...
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| May as well get Bob Corker to demand all of our games be televised next year... | |
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12-26-2007, 07:04 PM
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| I still despise Kerry for his bullcrap moves that got MLB EI on Cable packages
Idiot should stay out of these things and worry about his fake face and idiotic views
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12-26-2007, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Rasputin_Vol | Quote: |
"The best news of all is that now no die-hard Pats fans will be shut out from watching their team take aim at football history," Kerry said in a statement.
| This is hilarious. Die hard Pats fans??? Hell they barely had fans at all until 2002.
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12-26-2007, 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by U-T I still despise Kerry for his bullcrap moves that got MLB EI on Cable packages
Idiot should stay out of these things and worry about his fake face and idiotic views | Idiotic views, i couldn't agree more. Good to hear from ya sir. | |
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12-27-2007, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by superdave1984 This is hilarious. Die hard Pats fans??? Hell they barely had fans at all until 2002. | my thoughts exactly. go to a sports bar (or any of the other 5,000 bars/restuarants that will show it) if you really care. | |
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12-27-2007, 09:52 AM
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| Poor Kerry needs something do to.
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12-27-2007, 10:06 AM
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| Wow...must have missed that "right" when I read through the Constitution...
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