7 pm??? Son of a gun!!! How long do I have

PatsWickedPissah said:

Speaking of TiVo. I got a TiVo and HDTV early on in 2001. Pats are in the playoffs vs the Raiders and my wife informs me that we have a 6 months pre-scheduled dinner date with good neighbors who'd moved away. I decided to go since I wanted to be with a woman in that way again before dying. Being Brits, they had no interest in football. I set the TiVo and drove out to dinner despite the bad snowstorm. Despite their Americanized 10 yr old son watching the game in another room I kept myself away from the TV but did hear that it was in the 2nd half and the Pats were down by 10 or something. Drove home thru the wicked snowstorm and yes, I went to bed figuring I'd get rest and watch it start to finish in the morning not knowing the outcome. I'm sleeping, the phone rings and my new son-in-law, an MIT guy who'd never followed football before meeting my daughter the Patriots fan is screaming, "They won! They WON!!!" Obviously I went downstairs cranked up the TiVo and watched the game and postgame late into the early morning hours.

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PatsWickedPissah said:

Speaking of TiVo. I got a TiVo and HDTV early on in 2001. Pats are in the playoffs vs the Raiders and my wife informs me that we have a 6 months pre-scheduled dinner date with good neighbors who'd moved away. I decided to go since I wanted to be with a woman in that way again before dying. Being Brits, they had no interest in football. I set the TiVo and drove out to dinner despite the bad snowstorm. Despite their Americanized 10 yr old son watching the game in another room I kept myself away from the TV but did hear that it was in the 2nd half and the Pats were down by 10 or something. Drove home thru the wicked snowstorm and yes, I went to bed figuring I'd get rest and watch it start to finish in the morning not knowing the outcome. I'm sleeping, the phone rings and my new son-in-law, an MIT guy who'd never followed football before meeting my daughter the Patriots fan is screaming, "They won! They WON!!!" Obviously I went downstairs cranked up the TiVo and watched the game and postgame late into the early morning hours.

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upstater1 said:

Even worse, I don't have cable!!!!

I make do in other ways: over the air HDTV, Slingbox, Netflix, sports bars.

I have no use for cable, and when things are on ESPN, I watch SlingboxHD or go to a Sports Bar.

In four years of doing this, I have never had a problem.

I guess there's a first time for everything.

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tombonneau said:

I highly recommend getting a TiVo is you do OTA HD. And not a no-name generic DVR, and actual TiVo. You can get a TiVo HD for like $200 or something. But you can feed in the antenna signal and record that on the DVR. I swear, I have cable and 90% of the stuff I record is OTA signals (which are much better than cable HD).

Plus, you can get Amazon Video on Demand, Netflix Watch Instant, and other stuff through your TiVo. Not only that, if you are so technically inclined you can use it to stream video off your home PC onto your TV.

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102 Pat said:

Is this a permanent thing with the MNF start time being bumped back an hour? I hope so because in my time zone (Atlantic), the game normally starts at 9pm. By the time the game is done it's closer to 12:30am. Not too fun when you have too get up early the next morning.

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upstater1 said:

Even worse, I don't have cable!!!!

I make do in other ways: over the air HDTV, Slingbox, Netflix, sports bars.

I have no use for cable, and when things are on ESPN, I watch SlingboxHD or go to a Sports Bar.

In four years of doing this, I have never had a problem.

I guess there's a first time for everything.

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tombonneau said:

Try 4pm on the west coast.

Usually having games on earlier is great, just not 4pm on a Monday ...

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Dragda said:

I'd rather it be on at 4PM on the West Coast than getting over after midnight when I'm out East. They east coast should revolt! It's particularly bad when you want to watch a 7PM night game that starts at 10PM back east.

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Michael said:

When I lived on the west coast I hated MNF starting at 6:00 PM. It was still light out. Many times I hadn't even had dinner yet. The only thing worse was Sunday games that started at 10 AM. Blech, I'm so glad to be back in NE. And I've never seen a game start at 10 PM.

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chris_in_sunnyvale said:

I *love* the 10am starts. Always have, even when I was in my 20s. Wake up, go watch the game, then have the rest of the day to get stuff done.

Regards,
Chris

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Michael said:

I guess it's just what you are use to you.

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chris_in_sunnyvale said:

I drive my wife crazy during football season, making sure she doesn't book something when there's a game. Years ago she'd give me crap with lines like, "You're picking *football* over friends we haven't seen in a while?" and I'd respond with, "Yup. Let's go to dinner with them after the game or have them over Saturday instead. *You know the rules.*" Now she still rolls her eyes, but knows how I am.

In January, if she tries and sets up a dinner on a Saturday night with friends, I tell her the Pats might be playing so hold off on plans until I know more. The Sunday thing she learned. The Saturday in January thing she's still kinda peeved at.

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chris_in_sunnyvale said:

I grew up in MA with plenty of Pats football on Sunday at 1pm. Give me the 10am starts every time.

Regards,
Chris

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PatsWickedPissah said:

Back in '98? I saw the Pats playoff game way EARLY in the morning in Maui, Hawaii. The one where Zolak played and we got smoked.

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CoachK said:

WE HAVE A WINNER

I might be wrong, but I'd bet the farm that is the first time anyone ever used the word "onomatopeiac" on this board.

Takes me back to my days with the Jesuits at BC High.

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shmessy said:

You spelled onomatopoeiac incorrectly.

Put out your hand, I'm getting my ruler.

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