View Full Version : Pats/Giants To Be Simulcast On NBC & CBS
RhymesayersDU
12-26-2007, 05:27 PM
Which station will YOU watch?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3169075
Pats-Giants to be first three-network simulcast game in NFL history
Associated Press
Updated: December 26, 2007, 5:23 PM ET
NEW YORK -- The New England Patriots' shot at history Saturday night will be available for every household in the country with a television after months of wrangling.
The game against the New York Giants, in which the Patriots could become the first NFL team to go 16-0 in the regular season, was originally scheduled to be shown only on the NFL Network, which is available in fewer than 40 percent of the nation's homes with TVs.
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.
Local TV affiliates in the Boston, Manchester, N.H., and New York areas who were already set to simulcast the game under NFL policy will still air it.
The NFL has feuded with major cable companies, who have declined to carry the network as part of basic packages.
"We have taken this extraordinary step because it is in the best interest of our fans," commissioner Roger Goodell said. "What we have seen for the past year is a very strong consumer demand for NFL Network. We appreciate CBS and NBC delivering the NFL Network telecast on Saturday night to the broad audience that deserves to see this potentially historic game. Our commitment to the NFL Network is stronger than ever."
This will be the first three-network simulcast in NFL history and the first simulcast of any kind of an NFL game since the first Super Bowl in 1967, when CBS and NBC both televised the first meeting of the champions of the newly merged National Football League and American Football League.
Los Broncos
12-26-2007, 05:28 PM
They love the Pats that much? OMG! Hilarious!
BigPlayShay
12-26-2007, 05:30 PM
Go Giants.
oubronco
12-26-2007, 05:31 PM
i'll be watching ice dancing ***k the patriots they can suck donkey balls
listopencil
12-26-2007, 06:57 PM
I'll watch. I might even root for them to win it all. The Pats are a very, very good team. Great, even. What they are doing is incredible. As a football fan I don't want to miss it.
Goobzilla
12-26-2007, 07:02 PM
Only 3 networks broadcasting simultaneously?
The hoodie won't stand for the Pats being disrespected like that.
Patriots 73
G-men 5
400HZ
12-26-2007, 07:06 PM
The Giants suck and have nothing to gain by winning. I sure am glad they decided to simulcast this game and not Dallas/GB earlier. :thumbsdow
BroncoBuff
12-26-2007, 07:11 PM
Aside from all this, whose side are we on in the NFL vs TimeWarner war?
I've always just thought the NFL was right because NFL Network is Bowlen's creation, but if you think about it, should any cable channel be permitted to dictate to carriers? Obviously they don't have to, but is this suicide for NFL Network?
ColoradoDarin
12-26-2007, 07:20 PM
Karnac says "Name 3 stations I won't be watching on Saturday night." I have the NFLN (thanks Dish) and wasn't going to watch anyways. I'm ignoring everything about the Patriots this year. Cheaters, and the NFL enabled them by destroying the evidence quickly and without review.
Hogan11
12-26-2007, 07:27 PM
Aside from all this, whose side are we on in the NFL vs TimeWarner war?
Go Time Warner.
I thought I was going to be spared the weekly cramming of the Patriots down my throat, but nnnnnnooooooooo.
For the record, I could care less about the Patriots going undefeated, it does absolutely nothing for me....my reaction to it will be no more than a shrug.
Q:Will I watch this impending boring blowout against the Giants, arguably the most boring team in NFL history?
A:Only if I can't find a good NHL game on somewhere.
BroncoBuff
12-26-2007, 07:30 PM
LOL
Good stuff Hogan. I actually hope the Pats WIN this week, and then lose to Cleveland at home in Round 1. Man, that would make my year.
in a later press release, the NFL also announced that any official throwing a flag against the Pats will be summarily executed. also, on the off chance that the Giants do beat the Pats, the NFL has announced a new "Do-Over" rule, allowing the game to be replayed in NE on the following Tuesday, which will be broadcast on all channels everywhere.
Hogan11
12-26-2007, 07:48 PM
LOL
Good stuff Hogan. I actually hope the Pats WIN this week, and then lose to Cleveland at home in Round 1. Man, that would make my year.
I've already heard some static about my position on this whole thing..."How can you not want to watch NFL history in the making?" Hey, I missed Brett Farve breaking all those records too and it didn't diminish my NFL fan-life one iota......because I simply don't care.
UboBronco
12-26-2007, 08:40 PM
This actually makes me mad. I pay for the Sunday Ticket and the NFL Network, to get these games, they have my money. I want a refund of some kind. I know, you guys here will say tough, but to watch the Broncos outside of market, I need the Directv dish. If they "provide" this game, then all of them should be provided if not on a Sunday regular time slot, it is a form of reverse discrimination. OKAY, I will get off of my high horse... But just because congress is stronger in Boston than the rest of the country, the "normal American" again takes it in the shorts. Anyone on the site a Lawyer and wants to start a lawsuit.. I know, it would never work, but that is my thoughts for now.
Breck Bronc
12-26-2007, 08:48 PM
This actually makes me mad. I pay for the Sunday Ticket and the NFL Network, to get these games, they have my money. I want a refund of some kind. I know, you guys here will say tough, but to watch the Broncos outside of market, I need the Directv dish. If they "provide" this game, then all of them should be provided if not on a Sunday regular time slot, it is a form of reverse discrimination. OKAY, I will get off of my high horse... But just because congress is stronger in Boston than the rest of the country, the "normal American" again takes it in the shorts. Anyone on the site a Lawyer and wants to start a lawsuit.. I know, it would never work, but that is my thoughts for now.I agree. A lot of people, including myself, paid the 5 bucks to watch the 8 games NFL Network broadcast (even though the Broncos/Texans game would be on free TV for us in Denver). It's not about the money, 5 bucks for a month isn't a drop in the bucket, but the principle. Why show this game for free to the nation when Cowboys/Packers was the real draw?
RhymesayersDU
12-26-2007, 09:28 PM
This actually makes me mad. I pay for the Sunday Ticket and the NFL Network, to get these games, they have my money. I want a refund of some kind. I know, you guys here will say tough, but to watch the Broncos outside of market, I need the Directv dish. If they "provide" this game, then all of them should be provided if not on a Sunday regular time slot, it is a form of reverse discrimination. OKAY, I will get off of my high horse... But just because congress is stronger in Boston than the rest of the country, the "normal American" again takes it in the shorts. Anyone on the site a Lawyer and wants to start a lawsuit.. I know, it would never work, but that is my thoughts for now.
Overall I see the point you're making, but the part I bolded, this issue has nothing to do with Boston. Everybody in Boston and New York got the game locally before this decision was made.
gunns
12-26-2007, 09:44 PM
I'll watch. I might even root for them to win it all. The Pats are a very, very good team. Great, even. What they are doing is incredible. As a football fan I don't want to miss it.
I agree with you to an extent. As long as it's not the Raiders, Cowboys, Chiefs, Chargers, or anyone with coach Belicheat, I'd be anxious to watch it too. I remember when Miami did it, it was pretty incredible then. I was not a Miami fan but I enjoyed watching them pull it off. Not this current coach, er team, I probably won't be watching as I find the networks simulcast as arrogant as that coach.
Bronco Bob
12-26-2007, 10:02 PM
Anyone know what time it will be shown in Colorado?
missingnumber7
12-27-2007, 04:48 AM
So now people on 3 channels can hear how horrible Collinsworth and Gumble are in a booth.
Blueflame
12-27-2007, 04:57 AM
LOL
Good stuff Hogan. I actually hope the Pats WIN this week, and then lose to Cleveland at home in Round 1. Man, that would make my year.
That would be a fun scenario, but as the #1 seed in the AFC, the Pats have a bye for Round 1. Cleveland or Tennessee... and Jacksonville will be headed to SD or Pittsburgh.
defenseman
12-27-2007, 10:25 AM
I've already heard some static about my position on this whole thing..."How can you not want to watch NFL history in the making?" Hey, I missed Brett Farve breaking all those records too and it didn't diminish my NFL fan-life one iota......because I simply don't care.
AGREE with you wholeheartedly. I could care less about Bellicheat and Wussboy Brady. History? Tainted history, cheaters are what they are, cheaters. They don't deserve any of my time at all. I cannot believe the way the press just fawns all over the collection of egomaniacs in NE...dman
*Coughlin will sit his starters I'm guessing. Won't be a contest, why bother...
PatsWin2002
12-27-2007, 11:35 AM
:wave:
http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2007/11/06/1194389958_4540-1.jpg
ColoradoDarin
12-27-2007, 12:16 PM
:wave:
http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2007/11/06/1194389958_4540-1.jpg
Wow, I haven't read SI in years (I think 1987 was the last time I had a subscription and I was 13, I think I still have the "NFL Crunch Course" video somewhere packed away). As a Bronco fan, I don't have to care what the east coast media (SI & ESPN especially) thinks about anything. Heck as a sports fan I don't care what SI and E!SPN think about anything.
broncosteven
12-27-2007, 05:34 PM
I am at peace with the Patsy's winning it all.
Belly is a student of the game and should go down with Lombardi as one of the great HC's.
Plus it will shut up Shula and the 72 fins.
For me it is win win, Shut up 72 fins or choke in Playoffs I will take one of those 2.
Bronco_Beerslug
12-27-2007, 07:07 PM
Congress threatens the NFL with revisting antitrust laws and the NFL says the rest of America deserves this game.................... uh right.
ColoradoDarin
12-27-2007, 08:13 PM
I am at peace with the Patsy's winning it all.
Belly is a student of the game and should go down with Lombardi as one of the great HC's.
Plus it will shut up Shula and the 72 fins.
For me it is win win, Shut up 72 fins or choke in Playoffs I will take one of those 2.
So you want to listen to these arrogant a-holes for 40+ years instead of the arrogant a-holes that should be keeling over soon enough? I don't get that logic.
RhymesayersDU
12-28-2007, 08:09 PM
A new twist:
http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/28/news/companies/nfl.ap/index.htm?postversion=2007122813
Local TV stations at odds with NFL
December 28 2007: 1:55 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) -- Three local TV stations thought they had one of the NFL's biggest games all to themselves. When the potentially historic Patriots-Giants match up landed on their competitors, too, they accused the league of violating their contracts.
The NFL and the stations were "working through contractual issues" on Thursday, league spokesman Greg Aiello said.
"We are having private and confidential conversations with the NFL and are very hopeful that this unfortunate situation can be worked out to our satisfaction, in light of the fact we do have a valid contract for exclusive broadcast rights to the Patriots vs. Giants game in the Boston market," said Bill Fine, the president and general manager of ABC affiliate WCVB.
WCVB and Manchester, N.H., station WMUR, which are owned by the same company, and New York station WWOR had won bidding processes for the right to simulcast NFL Network games involving local teams.
To allow fans to see their local teams on free TV, the league simulcasts games on the NFL Network and ESPN in clubs' home markets.
The Patriots would become the first team in NFL history to go 16-0 in the regular season if they beat the Giants on Saturday. Outside of the Boston and New York areas, the game was originally scheduled to be broadcast only on the NFL Network, which is available in fewer than 40 percent of the nation's homes with televisions.
On Wednesday, the NFL announced the match up would also be aired on CBS and NBC.
"The NFL is in clear violation of their agreement with WWOR/My9," the station said in a statement Wednesday. "We fully expect the league to honor their commitment to My9 as the exclusive free over-the-air broadcaster for Saturday's telecast of the New England Patriots at New York Giants game."
The game would not be blacked out on CBS and NBC in the Boston and New York areas.
"We inquired about that, but CBS and NBC said it didn't work for them; they needed to clear the game nationally or it didn't work," Aiello said.
Aiello said he expected that the game would still air on three local channels plus the NFL Network in the Boston and New York areas.
This will be the first three-network simulcast in NFL history and the first simulcast of an NFL game since the inaugural Super Bowl in 1967, when CBS (CBS, Fortune 500) and NBC televised the meeting of the champions of the newly merged National Football League and American Football League.
The NFL, which has feuded with major cable companies over their refusal to include the network in a basic package, had resisted calls to make Saturday's game more widely available. But pressure from lawmakers mounted in recent weeks, and the league reversed course Wednesday.
gunns
12-29-2007, 10:02 AM
The game is set up as a gimmee game for the Pats. Belicheat is Goodell's boy and this was destined. The probability of any team doing this was nil except for Goodell's boy. The Giants have clinched a playoff spot so won't be playing their starters for the entire game. Just crown the Pats and mute your TV.