You won’t if you live outside of Dallas, Green Bay or Milwaukee and don’t have the NFL Network as part of your cable package. Almost nobody does.
This means that the most highly anticipated game (for the NFC) in the last several years will be viewed by about a million people, instead of the fifteen or twenty million that would probably tune in if they could.
Nice.
My solution? Live blog the game so that I can share the excitement with those who aren’t fortunate enough to be in a market that is allowed to televise it. It’s just my way of giving back to the Green Bay Packer community at large.*
My regrets to those of you who will have to watch the evening news or ESPN to catch a few highlights.
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* In all seriousness, there’s no freakin’ way I’m blogging during the game. I type like two chickens fighting over the last grain of feed, and if I’m blogging I’m probably missing a big part of the game. Sorry if I got you all fired up for nothing.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
I spoke with my local cable provider (charter) and was told that the game will be telivised on Fox. Maybe she was just trying to get me off the phone, who knows!
November 27th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Really? I was watching Mark Tauscher’s show tonight and they were talking about this as well, and how only Milwaukee, Green Bay and Dallas will be able to televise the game. I guess we get two cities for game broadcast because it’s a small market team. But people in Madison, Eau Claire and anywhere else outside GB and Milwaukee by contract cannot televise the game.
Other options for the game - get a dish in the next 24 hours, or watch the game at a bar that has a dish and the NFL Network.