Fair Weather Fan?
Posted on | October 6, 2008 at 7:00 am | 2 Comments
Pet Peeve of the Day: Lightning. What’s the worst nightmare of a Denver Broncos fan? No, it’s not getting beaten 33-19 by the Kansas City Chiefs, which happened last week, although that does come close. It’s sitting down to watch the game on TV on a Sunday afternoon only to have the transmission tower of the local station broadcasting the game get knocked out by a lightning strike. It affected satellite viewers (both HiDef and Standard Def) as well as over-the-air (both analog and digital), and supposedly some but not all cable customers. Since I have satellite and OTA, I just got a blank screen.
I guess I must be not be as big a fan as I thought I was, since once that happened, I didn’t have a lot of interest in waiting around to see if service was going to be restored. I got caught up in watching other things I had recorded, and never went back to fully watching the game against Tampa Bay even after the broadcast came back. I did check in at one point in the third quarter and saw the score was 16-6 Broncos, or something like that, so that was made me feel good. They wound up winning 16-13. I do kind of wish I had watched it, since apparently the Broncos defense finally came out to play for the first time all season. N and I will be attending the game against the Jaguars next week, so I hope the donkeys can keep it up. We’ve haven’t had much luck attending winning games in the last few years. I don’t want to see a repeat of last week’s Kansas City debacle. Do us proud, Broncos. A 4-1 record at this point ain’t nothing to sneeze at.
Yeah, I didn’t watch the Broncos win, and that was bad of me. But at least I pretty much got caught up on my TV watching after the vacation…
Latre.
Jogged Today: Yes (@ 49°F)
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Jogging:
- “Stop Shooting Off Stars” (The Innocents)
- “Downtime” (Blake Babies)
- “Clock In Now” (The Deathray Davies)
- “Bad Seed” (Three Lb Thrill)
- “Dripping With Looks” (Game Theory)
- “Healing” (Trotsky Icepick)
- “ME 262 (live)” (Blue Öyster Cult)
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “crunchwrap not crunchy”.
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2 Responses to “Fair Weather Fan?”
October 6th, 2008 @ 5:53 pm
We watched it on satellite at the bar, once the local signal went out they make access to the pay NFL channel open to all until the game returned.
October 6th, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
> What’s the worst nightmare of a Denver Broncos fan?
My first guess had something to do with prison shower incidents – gosh, was I way off!