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But Peacock/NBC has nothing I want.* I had free Peacock for a while until Cox took it away, but I had basically never watched it. I don’t want to be forced to pay for their programming because I have Paramount+. * - Might get Peacock long enough to watch the Winter Olympics, maybe. My point about the grocery merger is that they’re falling all over themselves to claim the merger will result in lower prices for consumers. I struggle to think of any time that’s ever happened. Have a question. I signed up for Sling Blue (and have already cancelled), and within a day or two of setting it up, their channel guide included the Showtime I get through Paramount. How does Sling know I subscribe to Paramount/Showtime?

I wonder what it will do to the price. Have to think it can't go anywhere but up. Mergers are for their benefit, not ours. Just like the article the other day where Kroger insists that merging with Albertson's will lower consumer prices, even though in my town it will eradicate any competition. Cue my skepticism.

That’s why I got a Tablo. If you attach an ordinary external hard drive to it, you can record up to two shows at a time and watch them whenever you want. They have two versions — one if you have an antenna already, and one if you don’t. The wireless connection means you can stream live or recorded programs from any TV or device where you’ve installed the app. And best of all, it’s cheap and there are no monthly fees.

I looked through their program listings the other day, and there’s almost nothing I’d watch, even if it was free. (And Cox used to include it for free until they abruptly pulled it.). Plus I still have a bad taste over them trying to force people to subscribe to watch a single NFL playoff game. I might maybe might get it for Olympics coverage, or maybe not. But what kind of penny-ante operation tells you they only take PayPal? I have a rooftop antenna, and discovered Tablo at the end of December. Almost returned it to Best Buy because it kept kicking me out. Somehow it settled down and the reception is indistinguishable from cable or streaming. DD loves that she can FF through the commercials frame by frame during Wheel and Jeopardy and not overshoot the programming. I’ve looked at Sling and it irritates me that ESPN, which I only use for Monday Night Football, is carved out to Sling Orange. OTOH, NFL Network is on Blue, so I could just wait for them to air the replay. 50 hours of DVR space is not very much, though. We already pay $20 for ad-free Hulu and Disney, so adding Hulu Live would cost $70 more, for a bigger channel selection than $40 Sling Blue and unlimited DVR. Because I can’t make a decision, I haven’t picked anything, and every day I delay is $6 I’m no longer paying in cable fees. 😏

The first one I really remember was SB III. Big discussions in seventh-grade math class before the game, led by the teacher, Mr. Eardley. The next year I was much more into football and more well-informed. SI had done a cover story on Joe Kapp, and of course that was the SI jinx for Minnesota.

Game over.

Is he rooting for SF or KC?

No, it's not like basketball. After the first trading of possessions, it's next score wins.

Each team gets a possession. After that, if it's still tied, it becomes sudden death. If one team scores a TD in their first possession and the other team only gets a FG, the TD team wins.

And now we know how important that missed PAT was.

As long as Patrick has 13 seconds, ya never know, but SF seems to have regained some of its mojo.

Of course, no kicking was involved…

I’m pretty sure Taylor was just saying, “I got all jet lagged to hell for this?”

Tony: "This is four down territory." Jim: "Are you out of your fcking mind??" They kick the FG.

I miss those few minutes two weeks ago where Detroit had a 24 - 7 lead...

Some kind of Super Bowl when the wide receiver has thrown more touchdown passes than either of the starting quarterbacks.

I've counted him twice already. And the first commercial, pushing a gambling site, doesn't seem like a good look for part-NFL franchise owner/soon-to-be NFL announcer. But I'll take any commercial with Matt Damon in it.

After an incredibly stupid penalty. If you don't have discipline in the SB, you're never going to have it.

If I were the sponsors, I'd be demanding a refund from the ad agencies.

I'm watching SB now, too, but I know the CNN feed on Max is not the same as the live feed from the network.

So far the game is boring and the commercials are baffling.

I keep forgetting I'm supposed to watch the $7M commercials. I'm so used to muting/skipping past them. Now he says CMC has nerves. Remind us how many SBs you played, Tony?

Hah, you'd better ask Mojoween. She's probably already started...

As I said above, I'd been off Netflix for almost ten months, resubbed at the middle tier for one month and almost immediately cancelled. That will give us time to catch up on GBBO and anything else I might have remotely cared about. I see very little that is new and different. I don't even want to finish The Crown. Cox finally put through my cancellation so I had to re-order HBO Max. Somehow now it's getting billed through my Roku account, but I don't care. What I did care was that they offered an annual subscription, so even with taxes, the ad-free tier works out to $13.25 a month with taxes, which is a whole lot less than the $180 I was paying every month for the three or four cable channels I watched. Went and got an annual Paramount + Showtime annual plan, too, for $10/month + taxes. Knowing that people start and drop Netflix like it was a hankie, you would think by now they'd offer an annual subscription. The only real bummer for me in giving up cable is that I can't get CNN or MSNBC without some kind of cable/satellite/streaming subscription, as they don't offer a standalone product. You'd think Peacock would carry MSNBC programming, but it's very limited and on a delay.

I've always called Drew Bledsoe the Wally Pipp of his generation. He came back after his injury to win the AFC title game for the Pats when TB 12 was injured, but by then Belichick had seen enough of his sixth-round draft choice to shuffle Bledsoe off to Buffalo.