TroyFootball05
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RE: Anyone like watching a bloodbath?
(08-24-2012 07:23 AM)RidgeRunner Wrote: (08-23-2012 06:39 PM)BLEEDITRED Wrote: (08-23-2012 05:18 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote: (08-23-2012 04:52 PM)BLEEDITRED Wrote: (08-23-2012 03:27 PM)MT FAN Wrote: I am sorry but ESPN3 does not count as a "nationally televised" game.
If anyone across the country can access it, I'd call it national.
Televised/streamed online = Semantics.
That would be 95% of all games ever played. JustinTV and other stream sites find ways to get around non-televised events. National to me means ESPN or ESPN2.
How can national mean anything other than the definition?
I for one have, perhaps 20% of the time, watch an espn3 games over some of the crap the networks put on "national tv." Could it be that the definition of National TV is when someone is too lazy or unknowledgeable to stream a better game from a computer to their TV. National TV is not always about possibilities of a good game but of who they have contracts with, sports politics, and what is a really "good" story line. The same is true of basketball.
The point is we like to brag about our games being on "National TV" when they're on ESPN3 or streamed as if it means the same thing as it did 5 years ago. When you were on National TV back then it means something because you were on one of the two channels that everyone watched. McNeese vs Yorkstown on National TV!!! ESPN3 LOVES US!!! PACK THE HOUSE!!! It is national tv, you're right. But understand the value of that phrase has dropped significantly ever since ESPN3 and stream sites became readily available.
Unfortunately, I can watch very little, not because I'm lazy, but because I'm fresh out of college with no job. I have no cable TV, and my internet provider is not compatible with ESPN3. I could find a streaming site for ESPN or ESPN2, or for whatever game I'm trying to watch, but it'd probably be terrible quality.
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