Monday, October 5, 2009

Showdown

I hear there's some big football game tonight. I don't know, have you guys heard anything about this?

All kidding aside, I'll be turning ESPN on at about 8:37 p.m., and not a minute earlier, so as to avoid the HYPE (there's so much, it uses capital letters) that will be spewing out incessantly all day long. Here's hoping that I won't have to mute the TV when Official Cheerleader of Monday Night Football Jon Gruden is canonizing Brett Favre.

Short post today, as I don't want to get too heavily into the HYPE machine myself. I'll have more thoughts and analysis tomorrow, which will be the beginning of the 27-day countdown until Brett Favre goes to Green Bay to play the Packers at Lambeau. Then we can all relax.

2 comments:

Peter said...

Do you live in Minnesota? I'll be trying to listen to the game on local AM radio while watching a muted TV, but I've never tried that before and don't know if there are synchronization issues. I remember being unable to do the TV + AM thing in Colorado with the Broncos, and I seem to remember some markets are synched while others are not. There's even a product one can purchase to put the radio or tv (whatever's ahead) on a delay so that they match up. I suppose TIVO could work for that.

Anyhow, any advice? I like Jaws but Gruden's gonna kill me if I have to listen to the ESPN coverage.

Jason said...

No, I'm in North Carolina. And, truthfully, I don't typically like listening to home-town broadcasters for football, even when they're supporting my team. They get just a little too crazy for me. Baseball, hockey, sure, I'll listen to local broadcasts for them, but I just have issues with football guys.