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The NFL just sent out the following announcement regarding the Patriots-Giants game:

The NFL has arranged with broadcast television partners CBS and NBC for an unprecedented three-way national simulcast of the NFL Network telecast of Saturday night’s New England Patriots at New York Giants game when the Patriots will try to become the first NFL team to go 16-0 in a regular season, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced today.

“We have taken this extraordinary step because it is in the best interest of our fans,” Commissioner Goodell said. “What we have seen for the past year is a very strong consumer demand for NFL Network. We appreciate CBS and NBC delivering the NFL Network telecast on Saturday night to the broad audience that deserves to see this potentially historic game. Our commitment to the NFL Network is stronger than ever.”

CBS and NBC will carry the NFL Network feed of the game with Bryant Gumbel and Cris Collinsowrth in the broadcast booth. The game also will be televised by WCVB-ABC (Channel 5) in Boston, WMUR-ABC in Manchester, New Hampshire (Channel 9) and WWOR (Channel 9) in New York. The telecast begins at 8 p.m. ET with kickoff set at 8:15 p.m. ET.

This will be the first three-network simulcast in NFL history and the first simulcast of any kind of an NFL game since Super Bowl I in 1967 when CBS and NBC both televised the first meeting of the champions of the newly merged National Football League and American Football League. CBS was the network partner of the NFL at that time and NBC televised the AFL. In that first Super Bowl – in which the NFL Green Bay Packers beat the AFL Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on January 15, 1967 – Ray Scott, Jack Whitaker and Frank Gifford called the game for CBS while Curt Gowdy and Paul Christman broadcast the game on NBC.

Against the 10-5 playoff-bound Giants, the 15-0 Patriots on Saturday night will seek to become the first NFL team to complete an unbeaten regular season since the Miami Dolphins went 14-0 in 1972. The Dolphins proceeded to win three more games, including Super Bowl VII, to finish 17-0 for the only perfect season in NFL history. The NFL regular season was expanded to 16 games in 1978.

The Patriots also are aiming for their record 19th consecutive regular-season victory dating back to the 2006 season. With six points, they also will become the highest scoring team in one NFL season, breaking the Minnesota Vikings’ total of 556 in 1998. Individually, quarterback Tom Brady (48) is in position to break Peyton Manning’s NFL record for most touchdown passes in a season (49 in 2004) and wide receiver Randy Moss (21) will set a new league mark if he catches two touchdown passes to surpass Jerry Rice’s 22 in 1987.

NFL Network is currently available on 240 cable systems, including Cox, plus satellite television providers DirecTV and Dish Network, and the telephone company TV services of AT&T U-VERSE and Verizon FiOS. But a few of the largest cable companies have refused to carry NFL Network on their most broadly distributed and affordable packages.

“NFL Network is a programming service of great interest to fans and should be broadly distributed by the cable industry,” said NFL Network President and CEO Steve Bornstein. “The only channel devoted 24/7 to America’s favorite sport is not programming that should be relegated to a poorly promoted, pay-extra sports tier that takes advantage of our fans’ passion for the NFL. A few of the biggest cable operators have refused to negotiate. We call on them to do what’s right for their consumers and negotiate agreements for NFL Network that make sense for everybody.”

I am still amazed it took the NFL this long to cave and show this game to everyone.
Since up until this afternoon if you didn’t get the NFL network you were fucked.

That Meant both my Brothers, one who lives in LA and one in Burlington Vermont, would be missing this Historic Game. It’s Not like the Patriots are going to lose so everyone should be watching.

Don’t forget about the Last Mookie of the Year. 10p.m. eastern on FULL TILT POKER.

Drop the Hammer

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I live in one of the 74 million homes that won’t get to watch the NFL game today.
I think the NFL is making a big mistake not showing these games. I hope the Patriots are 15-0 since the last game is on the NFL network that game will be missed by alot of people.

Can u believe that the Redsox are trying to trade for Santana from Minnesota?
They would have an amazing rotation. My guess is that they are just trying to drive the price
up for the Yankees. Santana means alot more to them since Wong is No ACE.

their answer is to sign up for Direct Tv, Well I cant get direct tv so i am screwed.
I guess i could find a bar to watch it but It is only the Cowboys vs Greenbay and then i would miss the riverchasers tourney.

see you there 9pm on fulltilt.

Peace

Now go
Drop the Hammer

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Nov. 14 Houston - W (49-14)
Nov. 21 at Chicago - W (41-10)
Nov. 25 at Detroit - W (41-9)
Dec. 5 Tennessee - W (51-24)

Wow look at those scores these are from 2004 when the Peyton manning and the Colts were setting the Touchdown Passing records.
I am curious if anyone was accusing Mr Manning of running up the scores that year, Or complaining of Peyton Manning staying in to throw
a Td while ahead by 4 touchdowns?

How about these victories for the Joe Gibbs-coached Redskins of 1991:

45-0 Detroit

34-0 Phoenix

42-17 Cleveland

56-17 Atlanta

41-14 Pittsburgh

41-10 Detroit

or better yet that talking head Hippocrite Steve Young.
Here are just some of the scores of the San Francisco-Atlanta series during Young’s tenure leading the post-Montana 49ers:

* 1992 – San Fran 56, Atlanta 17
* 1992 – San Fran 41, Atlanta 3
* 1994 – San Fran 42, Atlanta 3
* 1994 – San Fran 50, Atlanta 14

Sure the Patriots are Running it up. What should they do kneel 3 times and Punt?
Tom Bradys last series against Washington started with 3 minutes left in the 3rd Quarter.
then instead of kicking a field goal they went for it on 4th and 1 thereby giving the redskins a chance to actually stop them instead of
putting up 3 more easy points.

Matt cassell the Backup QB ran 15 yards for a touchdown,
kyle eckell the 3rd or 4th string Runningback scored a 4th Quarter touchdown. these were not the starters as a matter of fact that last touchdown happened when the 3rd string QB was in the game.

thats the 2nd and 3rd string QB’s and Rb’s scoring not the starters.

Redskins Go a Little Too Quietly
» Michael Wilbon
NFL teams compete on a level playing field, so the notion that a team should voluntarily stop beating another is dumb.

This may be the smartest thing Michael Wilbon has ever said. THIS ISN’T POP WARNER folks.

NFL coaches interviewed on Sirius NFL Radio in recent days have commented on scoring points with big leads. Here are some of their comments, courtesy of Sirius’ media relations department:

#1 John Fox, Carolina Panthers: “Typically in this league when you have the game in hand you do call off the dogs a little bit but not to the point where you could lose the game. You never can relax too much.”

#2 Jack Del Rio, Jacksonville Jaguars: “You play to win. If you can score, score. Your job, as a defense, as an opponent, is to slow them down. Offensively you want to score. Obviously, late in the fourth quarter you’re going to make sure your starters don’t get hurt and things like that going forward but you still keep playing football.”

# 3 Herm Edwards, Kansas City Chiefs: “I just think that obviously [the Patriots] are going at a pace right now, they’re just playing. They’re having fun playing football. You’re caught in a bad situation there when you have a lead like that. All coaches have been in that situation. Sometimes you’ve been the guy that had the lead and sometimes you’ve been the guy on the other side of it. And that’s what’s great about athletics. People always look into things, trying to figure out is there something that he’s trying to do or say. The coach that is winning, does he run the ball on fourth down or does he pass the ball on fourth down? I don’t know what to tell you. It’s just one of those deals. There’s a lot being made out of things and at the end I think the thing you’ve got to realize is this. You’ve got a team that is playing very very good, setting all kinds of record. When I watch those guys play, they’re having fun. They’re just having fun playing football.”

# 4 Brad Childress, Minnesota Vikings: “You’re talking about the Washington Redskins and one of the highest paid coaches in the National Football League and a staff full of head coaches and they’re coaching, too. Games can get left-handed like that, unfortunately, and New England has a way of making you be left-handed.”

# 5 Lane Kiffin, Oakland Raiders: “Coach Gibbs, I believe, said he had no issues with it. It’s so hard to win and so hard to score I don’t think that there really is running up the score. You’re just playing your players and trying to get better. In this league your backups do have so few opportunities to play that, from my perspective, if we were ever in that situation we would definitely run plays and put in some of our younger guys that otherwise don’t play.”

# 6 Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh Steelers: “We’re responsible for keeping their score down. They aren’t. That’s just being competitive. That’s what this game is about. That’s what any game is about. I have no comment or opposition to them ringing up as many points as they’re capable of.”

I guess the patriots are the new team to hate.
well bring it on bitches.
atleast we are not Dirty oh wait the bills accused us of that too.

Pats 38-28 on sunday.

Am I a Homer? Maybe but everyone wants to jump on and make an excuse for why the Patriots are winning.
How about they are fucking good. Better than almost every team by a wide margin.

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