2022 NFL Thread (Chiefs win Super Bowl 57)

[TAC]

I have Amazon Prime. But I'm gonna watch it on my computer?? Fuck that. I don't really watch the game intently, but I like to have it on while I DTF and stuff. I want to look up at my TV and watch when I want.

That blows!

[Skeever]

I have Amazon Prime. But I'm gonna watch it on my computer?? Fuck that. I don't really watch the game intently, but I like to have it on while I DTF and stuff. I want to look up at my TV and watch when I want.

That blows!

There is an app for smart TVs and other devices like consoles and Blu-ray players that may have the capability for streaming apps

[TAC]

I have Amazon Prime. But I'm gonna watch it on my computer?? Fuck that. I don't really watch the game intently, but I like to have it on while I DTF and stuff. I want to look up at my TV and watch when I want.

That blows!

There is an app for smart TVs and other devices like consoles and Blu-ray players that may have the capability for streaming apps

Yeah, I have a TV where I could do that, but on a Thursday night in the fall, I'd likely be watching the Bruins, or playoff baseball, maybe an early season Celtics game, but if I want to check on the football game, I now have change my TV input, and well, it now becomes a giant pain in the ass.

Not that they care, as they have their money, but my TV had Thursday Night Football on every week last season, and this year...it won't be on once. I'm just one viewer so I know I don't matter, obviously.

[King Postwhore]

God you are old, man.

[King Postwhore]

Tim, what's your cable company?

[TAC]

Tim, what's your cable company?

Xfinity I think.

[TAC]

God you are old, man.

That doesn't make me old though. It's going to require too many extra steps to check in or watch the game. I probably have to sign in to my TV. Fuck all that.

[hefdaddy42]

Yeah, I have a TV where I could do that, but on a Thursday night in the fall, I'd likely be watching the Bruins, or playoff baseball, maybe an early season Celtics game, but if I want to check on the football game, I now have change my TV input, and well, it now becomes a giant pain in the ass.

Not that they care, as they have their money, but my TV had Thursday Night Football on every week last season, and this year...it won't be on once. I'm just one viewer so I know I don't matter, obviously.

Maybe you're making more of this than it needs to be.  I have cable, but usually watch it through an app on our TV rather than the actual cable input.  If I wanted to still do that while watching Prime for Thursday Night Football, and wanted to check something else out, I would have to close Prime and then open the cable app.

But on Thursdays, I will watch cable through the cable input like most cable watchers do, and have the Prime app on through THAT input.  Then whenever I want to toggle back and forth, I would just need to hit my TV's input button.  Cable or Prime.  No pain in the ass.

[TAC]

Toggling my TV's input makes it a pain in the ass for me. I don't care about football enough to do this.

Like I said, they are losing a viewer here. I hope they're able to replace it online. But neither of my kids, who are online all the time care about football either, so it's not like it's transitioning to a younger demographic in my house anyway.

[King Postwhore]

If you upgrade to the X-1 series with the DVR, you don't have to toggle.  There's an app section.  It's real easy.

[KevShmev]

I am with Tim on this.  Spreading the games out over so many channels and streaming services is simply going to result in many fans not watching.  I don't have Prime, and I am not getting it just to watch one football game a week.  And I know, the NFL has so much money, so who cares, but it blows.

[King Postwhore]

I don't like it either but he has Amazon Prime. He just hates technology. 

[KevShmev]

But I get what he means about being able to flip back and forth quickly between that and something else, if you have to get Prime up and running every time you want to switch over.

I came to the realization a while back that the reason I rarely watch concert videos anymore is due to the advances in technology. Back in the day, I could leave one in the VCR, and if I were watching a ball game or something and wanted a break for a bit, I could just hit play and watch a few songs and then go right back to the game.  Now, you have to click over to the app, start it up, go through the menu and then finally get to a song.  It makes the flipping around process suck, so I just don't do it. 

[King Postwhore]

It isn't that hard. Shit, Tim probably had to deal with rabbit ears sooooooo....

[Skeever]

I am with Tim on this.  Spreading the games out over so many channels and streaming services is simply going to result in many fans not watching.  I don't have Prime, and I am not getting it just to watch one football game a week.  And I know, the NFL has so much money, so who cares, but it blows.

NFL need to get their act together, ditch DirectTV and just offer a season ticket package independently like every other league have. I think they are getting close, but not there yet. I've got hopes that next year is the year, as I believe their contract with DirectTV is up in 2023, and they've already launched their own "NFL+" app which is slowly encroaching on Sunday Ticket (though, only Preseason, thus far).

[hefdaddy42]

Toggling my TV's input makes it a pain in the ass for me. I don't care about football enough to do this.

Whatever. No skin off my nose. If you don't care enough about football to hit a button, that's your business.

[El Barto]

I am with Tim on this.  Spreading the games out over so many channels and streaming services is simply going to result in many fans not watching.  I don't have Prime, and I am not getting it just to watch one football game a week.  And I know, the NFL has so much money, so who cares, but it blows.

NFL need to get their act together, ditch DirectTV and just offer a season ticket package independently like every other league have. I think they are getting close, but not there yet. I've got hopes that next year is the year, as I believe their contract with DirectTV is up in 2023, and they've already launched their own "NFL+" app which is slowly encroaching on Sunday Ticket (though, only Preseason, thus far).

Agreed. Better still, renew with DTV but non-exclusively. Let them compete with a wired carrier. Looks like it's currently up to $293/yr, and that's getting real close to the point I'd rather go through the hassle of stealing it rather than paying for the convenience. At the same time, it's also possible that all of these lucrative broadcasting rights deals include a no-compete clause. It's entirely possible that the NFL's unwillingness to offer such a package has to do with the other services rather than DTV.

[pg1067]

I am with Tim on this.  Spreading the games out over so many channels and streaming services is simply going to result in many fans not watching.  I don't have Prime, and I am not getting it just to watch one football game a week.  And I know, the NFL has so much money, so who cares, but it blows.

I more or less agree.  We have two TVs.  The living room TV is old and not "smart."  There's a Fire stick, but it didn't work the last time I tried it.  The bedroom TV is "smart," but the process of switching from the cable box to the home screen and then scroll down to the Amazon app and then click around to find the game is more effort than it's worth.  If it's a game I really want to watch (e.g., if it's the Broncos), then I'll probably go there and leave it there.  I guess the good part is that, in an average season, I MIGHT watch 1-2 TNF games, so it really won't matter much.  As long as the Sunday and Monday games stay where they are.

[Dublagent66]

I already have Prime Video anyway, but the app is on my PS5 console (much faster streaming than my smart tv).  All I have to do is switch back and forth.  Piece O' cake.

[TAC]

What on earth is a PS5 console?

[Samsara]

What on earth is a PS5 console?

Listen, Triceratops, it's PlayStation 5. Which I, being a fellow Jurassic era guy, do not have.

[TAC]

What on earth is a PS5 console?

Listen, Triceratops, it's PlayStation 5. Which I, being a fellow Jurassic era guy, do not have.

Ah gotcha. 

I never made it past Intellivision. My stepson played Nintendo when he was a kid. I also know of Atari and Colecovision.

[Samsara]

What on earth is a PS5 console?

Listen, Triceratops, it's PlayStation 5. Which I, being a fellow Jurassic era guy, do not have.

Ah gotcha. 

I never made it past Intellivision. My stepson played Nintendo when he was a kid. I also know of Atari and Colecovision.

God, we're so old. 

[King Postwhore]

What on earth is a PS5 console?

Listen, Triceratops, it's PlayStation 5. Which I, being a fellow Jurassic era guy, do not have.

Ah gotcha. 

I never made it past Intellivision. My stepson played Nintendo when he was a kid. I also know of Atari and Colecovision.

Owned all of them as well as the Atari 5200, 7800, 1200xl computer. Sega, Genesis, Dreamcast. Nintendo Nes, SNes,  64, Gamecube & Wii.

[Dublagent66]

What on earth is a PS5 console?

Listen, Triceratops, it's PlayStation 5. Which I, being a fellow Jurassic era guy, do not have.

Almost shit myself LMFAO!! 

Tim, for a split second I wasn't sure if you were joking or not.  I think you need a PS5 for xmas.  It's a lot more than just a gaming device

[pg1067]

What on earth is a PS5 console?

Listen, Triceratops, it's PlayStation 5. Which I, being a fellow Jurassic era guy, do not have.

Ah gotcha. 

I never made it past Intellivision. My stepson played Nintendo when he was a kid. I also know of Atari and Colecovision.

God, we're so old. 

My sister's husband's family (with whom we became friends) had an Atari 2600, and a friend of mine from my neighborhood had n Intellivision.  I though the Intellivision sucked.  I got a Colecovision...I think as a combo birthday/Christmas gift in 1982.  I thought it was really cool.  There was a hardware add-on that let you play Atari 2600 games, and I think I ended up playing more of those than Colecovision games.

Sometime in the late '80s or early '90s I got an NES, and then I think my now-wife got me the Super NES in '93 or '94.  I then got a PS3 for father's day in 2007, and that's as far as I went with video game consoles, although my kids have had a GameCube, a Wii and a PS4 (along with a couple of GameBoys).

[El Barto]

What on earth is a PS5 console?

Listen, Triceratops, it's PlayStation 5. Which I, being a fellow Jurassic era guy, do not have.

Ah gotcha. 

I never made it past Intellivision. My stepson played Nintendo when he was a kid. I also know of Atari and Colecovision.

God, we're so old. 

My sister's husband's family (with whom we became friends) had an Atari 2600, and a friend of mine from my neighborhood had n Intellivision.  I though the Intellivision sucked.  I got a Colecovision...I think as a combo birthday/Christmas gift in 1982.  I thought it was really cool.  There was a hardware add-on that let you play Atari 2600 games, and I think I ended up playing more of those than Colecovision games.

Dude, in my world only the rich kids had Intelivisions, and the rest of us were jealous.

[TAC]

Huh?  I thought my parents bought Intellivision because it was cheaper than Atari. I know that all the kids we knew had Atari, and we were the only ones that had Intellivision.

Here's an ad from 1982..

[El Barto]

That ad is right before the bottom fell out of the market. Introductory price for the Intellivision was about $275. By the time it came out the price of the 2600 had dropped quite a bit from its introductory price of $189 two years earlier. That two year delay was probably a bigger consideration. Parents who'd shelled out $150 for the 2600 weren't going to run out and buy a $250 console 2 years later. Except maybe this woman. 

[TAC]

That ad is right before the bottom fell out of the market. Introductory price for the Intellivision was about $275. By the time it came out the price of the 2600 had dropped quite a bit from its introductory price of $189 two years earlier. That two year delay was probably a bigger consideration. Parents who'd shelled out $150 for the 2600 weren't going to run out and buy a $250 console 2 years later. Except maybe this woman. 

Bart, I have no idea how you're up on any of this. It's amazing actually.

I remember having Intellivision, but I grew out of it pretty quickly. Video games was never really my thing. If you told me that my parents shelled out more for Intellivision than my neighbor's parents shelled out for Atari, then that would blow my mind. My only guess would be that the salesman convinced my mother that Intellivision was FAR superior. We never went without, but we never had top of the line anything.

[Dublagent66]

I had an Intellivision.  The sports games (mainly football) were the most realistic looking at the time.  It also had a sold separately voice model for added realism for some of the games.  However, those controllers and the little disc for a directional pad were god awful.  Later on, it was NES and SNES which eventually led to PlayStation.  The only PS console I didn't get was the PS3.  Most of those games can be streamed on PlayStation Now anyway.

[TAC]

I remember the disc wearing out. I think we bought something to put on them, a little joystick or something like that.

I remember the graphics being pretty terrible though.

[El Barto]

Bart, I have no idea how you're up on any of this. It's amazing actually.

I just googled their retail price on release.

I remember the graphics being pretty terrible though.

Compared to the 2600? It was far superior in terms of graphics.

[KevShmev]

Quite a conversation on the day of the first regular season game. 

[EPICVIEW]

did I see that Ozzy is playing at halftime?  Ive read hes doing well after the surgery but.....