Almost ready to crack
May 23, 2009
It seems that the AFL and their free to air broadcast partner, Channel Ten, have managed to achieve what a swathe of tele-marketers, door to door salesman and annoying gits at shopping centres could not, made me seriously contemplate pay TV.
The Dreamtime at the G concept is great, but when you show around half an hour of pre-match entertainment on a telecast which is already delayed, it quickly grates. So for almost an hour now Buster Boy has been patiently waiting to see some footy, while I have been assuring him that the game would begin any minute now.
The final result, Buster Boy fell asleep just as the opening bounce went up. I doubt he’ll be in a hurry to stay up and watch the footy next week.
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Don’t know what you’re on about, Dave. Football? What’s that?
I’m busy watching the astronauts trying to negotiate the weather in order to land safely. They’re already a day late. It’s free and (on a mac) it’s live. Windows users get it around 16 seconds later.
Hope I don’t look like I’m hijacking your blog.
Post a link at least jr.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
Mac (QuickTime) option is on RHS. It installs a link icon on your desktop.
They’ve just been waved off for another orbit so there’s plenty of time. 90 minutes
When I saw the title of this post, I thought Troll Princess must have done something reeeeeally bad. Badder than locking you out of your house.
Well she ran across the road and covered half a block before I could catch her, followed by a refusal to get in the car and a general tantrum, but that’s pretty much a regular outing.
Yeah, Bron, and then it turns out to be only about TV footy coverage. Talk about crying wolf!
Spot on Dave. The over-long introduction was a source of great conflict in our household.
Leanne, who thinks anything & everything indigenous is to be revered and placed higher than the holy grail itself (i.e. AFL footy) thought it was o-so-wonderful that we were adopting aboriginal culture as our own. I, on the other hand, said I don’t think we need to “adopt it”, just recognise & acknowledge it. That, however, does not extend to dragging out the start of what (in reality) was just another home & away game.
Also, as I’ve said at my site, it’s more than a little patronosimg (in my opinion) to only recognise the magnificent contribution of indigenous players in one game, Essendon v Richmond, just because their combined colours are the same as the aboriginal flag.
Let’s pay tribute to them properly and select an indigenous team to play against a non-indigenous one in the mid-season break. I’ll back the blacks to win it.
That would be “patronising”, not patronosimg !
The AFL is working hard to make the game of Australian football irrelevant. Stupid rule changes every year, more umpires on the ground than you can poke a stick at, a sanitized salary cap, control of players unlike any other sport and a denial that AFL players even have sex. Now, real football the one played with a round ball makes a lot more sense…..Needless to say I gave up on AFL years ago…Its dull!
Unless it’s a match I can watch while sitting on the bonnet of a car that’s been driven right up to the boundary line, I’m not interested in it.
I don’t watch a lot of FTA these days…
So Buster Boy fell asleep rather than watch AFL eh? Smart kid that one.