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Dear NFL Network:
Why does the NFL network think we need to see old-as-cheese score finals every 3 minutes? Is there someone in their office that really thinks a core fan watching a preseason game enjoys seeing the same flippin scores continually?
Is there honestly someone in the NFL network office that thinks its a GREAT idea to show the final score of a game DURING the telecast of that same game?
I didn't watch the preseason tape delays last weekend, I turned it off. You have yourselves to thank for that, because since I didn't feel like taping up the bottom of my screen, I thought I could just look away when the scores came up. But -- since they came up so frequently and unrelentlessly, I ended up seeing the scores of most of the games I wanted to watch anyhow. And, strangely, my desire to watch the games already knowing how they were going to end...disappeared! So you have only yourself to blame that I didn't watch your channel, seeing that you go out of your way to tell me how all of the games played out.
I've recommended your channel to everyone I can talk to -- and some have even gotten dishes just to get NFL network -- but no more. This experience has reminded me of what total amateurs you guys really are. Maybe I should go back to watching ESPN's NFL Live and other NFL programming rather than continue to focus in on a network that thinks its a great idea to barrage viewers with 3-hour long repetitive score finals for games the network plans to air later on. Really, how stupid is that? This is the channel that is going to give me insightful coverage on the NFL, when they can't even manage a score ticker intelligently (intelligently would mean REMOVING IT, by the way).
Many years will pass and I won't remember these preseason games or who won, but until the day I die I'll remember this as the preseason that almost was the greatest ever (because all of the games were televised) but became a dark cloud of ugliness and frustration caused by the relentless insane abuse of a SCORE TICKER for games yet to be televised and for games currently being televised. Sooner or later, the FBI will bring down some nutjob who is threatening the safety of ordinary civilians and they will ask him why it is that he committed evil against society, and the nutjob will reply, "I just couldn't take that score ticker of the NFL Network anymore, and I just SNAPPED."
Thank-you for going out of your way to ruin your own telecasts, your own preseason monopoly telecast, your own network. I am sure as you grow as a network entity you will learn not to shoot yourself in the foot like this, but until that point, maybe I am better off watching my NFL coverage on the more mature ESPN. Which is a darn shame. My dreams, my hopes, my love for the NFL Network is phantom, meaningless, empty, desolate, disappointing.
Why does the NFL network think we need to see old-as-cheese score finals every 3 minutes? Is there someone in their office that really thinks a core fan watching a preseason game enjoys seeing the same flippin scores continually?
Is there honestly someone in the NFL network office that thinks its a GREAT idea to show the final score of a game DURING the telecast of that same game?
I didn't watch the preseason tape delays last weekend, I turned it off. You have yourselves to thank for that, because since I didn't feel like taping up the bottom of my screen, I thought I could just look away when the scores came up. But -- since they came up so frequently and unrelentlessly, I ended up seeing the scores of most of the games I wanted to watch anyhow. And, strangely, my desire to watch the games already knowing how they were going to end...disappeared! So you have only yourself to blame that I didn't watch your channel, seeing that you go out of your way to tell me how all of the games played out.
I've recommended your channel to everyone I can talk to -- and some have even gotten dishes just to get NFL network -- but no more. This experience has reminded me of what total amateurs you guys really are. Maybe I should go back to watching ESPN's NFL Live and other NFL programming rather than continue to focus in on a network that thinks its a great idea to barrage viewers with 3-hour long repetitive score finals for games the network plans to air later on. Really, how stupid is that? This is the channel that is going to give me insightful coverage on the NFL, when they can't even manage a score ticker intelligently (intelligently would mean REMOVING IT, by the way).
Many years will pass and I won't remember these preseason games or who won, but until the day I die I'll remember this as the preseason that almost was the greatest ever (because all of the games were televised) but became a dark cloud of ugliness and frustration caused by the relentless insane abuse of a SCORE TICKER for games yet to be televised and for games currently being televised. Sooner or later, the FBI will bring down some nutjob who is threatening the safety of ordinary civilians and they will ask him why it is that he committed evil against society, and the nutjob will reply, "I just couldn't take that score ticker of the NFL Network anymore, and I just SNAPPED."
Thank-you for going out of your way to ruin your own telecasts, your own preseason monopoly telecast, your own network. I am sure as you grow as a network entity you will learn not to shoot yourself in the foot like this, but until that point, maybe I am better off watching my NFL coverage on the more mature ESPN. Which is a darn shame. My dreams, my hopes, my love for the NFL Network is phantom, meaningless, empty, desolate, disappointing.
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