Can I join the club? I pull up ESPN's Gamecast for Longhorn games that aren't televised up here. And I've been known to yell at the laptop, too.

Sure, there's plenty of room in this club, and you don't even need a converter box.

I hope ESPN's coverage is better than SI's. Their "live blogger" was making a post about every 10 minutes or so. Sheesh. I do better than that when I liveblog the Super Bowl, and I don't even get paid for it!

Glad you were able to watch and pull the Pokes along. Looks like they did good!

If you are "pitiful" then we at my house must be downright pathetic. Because we had TWO laptops sitting side by side: one with live streaming video and the second showing the field position graphic.

And I am not a die-hard football fan, but I thought the NFL commentators were third-string for sure.

Oh ..... was there a game or something last night?

Jeff, go ahead and own up to it: you're a Packers fan. You were wearing a Cheese Head last night, weren't you?

Deborah, I didn't realize I could have accessed live video of the game. I figured that was verboten under the licensing agreement of the NFL Network. Bummer.

Rob, the only watching I was able to do involved hitting the reload button on my browser every 15 seconds to see if the lame-o SI blogger had any updates or insights or even factual eyewitness reporting. He didn't.

Heard from a friend who's aunt took her son to Buffalo Wild Wings in Odessa at 4:30 p.m. that they couldn't get a seat because the restaurant/bar was already sold out "by reservations" for the game. Maybe they should change the place's name to "Ailes Sauvages De Buffalo" due to the more elite nature of its customer base (and the Cowboys are on NFLN again on Dec. 22, though that game against Carolina doesn't figure to attract anywhere near the attention, except from fans exhausted from the final Saturday of Christmas shopping).

Well, there's no disputing the relatively more sophisticated nature of the Odessa football audience. Here in Midland, you had to squat at a table (not a pretty mental picture, I realize) to hold it. Some guys sent their families in around 1:00 pm to get a table for the evening kickoff.

Got to have your priorities.

Eric, you and I may have been watching the same television news broadcast ..... when I heard that some of those people had already been sitting there at BWW for 5+ hours, holding onto tables until gametime, I couldn' help but think, 'Sheesh, get a life!'

Maybe if it had been for a Steelers game, I could understand ..... no, not even then.

Yeah, at least when you camp out in front of Best Buy, you're likely to walk away with something tangible like a flat screen TV or a video game.

Eric ... due to the outpouring of complaints to the NFL because of how badly they botched things, the NFL network "live streamed" their commentators and "portions" of the game ... but not all of the game.

We could hear Bryant Gumbel and Chris Collingsworth call the game, but never actually saw them. NFL network had a news desk with 2 and 3 men at a time who talked over the action (grr) about half the time, with more on the field to add still more talking.

In reality, we probably saw less than half of the game in live action. We should have left the radio on and watched the video without sound

I have Dish Network, which carries the NFL Network as part of the basic package.

I will never go to cable again. I got hosed when Suddenlink was Cox. The way I was treated then sold me on satilite tv for good.

It's fun to be a Cowboys fan again. I hope it stays that way for a few years!

Deborah, perhaps my way was best, after all. (I didn't actually "tune in" until the fourth quarter anyway.)

MKFJ, I have to admit that Tony Romo has made me a fan, once again. His "gee whiz" enthusiasm for the game is hard to resist. I don't know if he's another Troy Aikman, skills-wise, but he seems to be a natural leader. And here's the real shocker: Terrell Owens is starting to make me think that he really IS a team player. Now, all they need is a snuff-dipping, bronc-busting fullback.

I miss him too.
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Dang, I didn't remember his hair ever being that long!

That was one tough dude.

Wow, learning about the extraordinary efforts you West Texans had to go through to keep with the game kind of makes me feel bad. Here in the Metroplex the game was on regular (free) TV.

Just one more advantage to living in Fort Worth I guess.