The strangest thing happened this morning. The NHL has billed today as "Hockey Day In America" and NBC is carrying three games nationwide... Washington-Buffalo, Philly-Rangers, and The Beloved Wings-Minnesota Wild... beginning at 1230 hrs EST. So I dutifully tuned in and was chagrined to see BOTH the Amarillo and ABQ NBC affiliates were carrying the steenkin' Caps-Sabres game. Shit... that sucks now, don't it? But something happened about three minutes into the game when BOTH affiliates switched to the Wings game. YES! We'll take it!
So now we're at the first intermission in the Wings game and the second period period has started in Buffalo, so NBC is back to the Sabres-Caps. I have NO idea if NBC will go back to the Wings game but I can truthfully say this ain't no way to run a frickin' railroad. Or a network.
Ah, wait. An announcer just said "We'll get you back to the second period of the Wings game in just a few minutes." I stand corrected.
Happy Hockey Day!
ReplyDeleteIt was odd to have NHL hockey on so much in one day. We did have it on all day. The funny thing was that we had the Flyers game on with some hack NBC or other do the play-by-play yet the Flyer teams own play-by-play guy was calling the Sabres game? WTF? The two that did the Flyer game were so dull and annoying. It really took away from the game. Just wish we had a radio to hook into the system so we could get the radio coverage. Would have been better.
ReplyDeleteI do hope that this becomes more common, a day of hockey, kind of like Canada "Hockey Night" coverage.
BT: Jimmy T sends.
Agreed on the odd part, Jimmy, and on the piss-poor quality of NBC/Versus play-by-play guys, too. Some of 'em are pretty good... like Dave Strader... but most aren't. But I'll give NBC props for daring to broadcast hockey as much as they have of late. GOOD On 'Em!!
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