(More than) 57 channels (and nothing on).
Another important university football weekend, where my only access to the game that interested me was via Twitter. Hardly the same as being there, or watching it on a big screen TV. I tried. Even with all those channels that are listed on my sat box, the only game available (in the Canadian context) was the university championship from central Ontario.
For those of you who believe that any one game is just like another… yes, in the broadest way. Just like the way that any one piece of art resembles another. Why, my magazine photo of the Mona Lisa is just like the original, without the crowds. And in essence, I did get to watch that game, free of crowds.
But, a win is a win and a loss is a loss, unless you happen to identify with any one of the teams involved. Today, I saw the usual slate of plays, and the expected injuries, and the dump of the Gatorade (that detail is a constant). I will have to wait for next year for something better, although I have the “faint hope clause” that the penultimate championship (the Vanier Cup) might be telecast on an available network feed, two weeks from now.
I guess what I’m actually protesting here is the lack of value I get from my monthly sat TV payments. There has to be an alternative that gives me what I want to watch, rather than the occasion to scroll through dozens of pages of program listings, affirming that there really is nothing going on. Shades of Bruce Springsteen!
