Tag: Not A Ripoff

Week 17 Listening Guide

Don T -
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As last week was nuts, this Sunday offers climactic games of the in / out variety only for Jet and Steeler fans, and a couple of head to head matches for seeding. There will be no backdoor entrants: 11 of the 12 playoff slots are stuffed. And some teams are so

NFL Week 16 Listening Guide

Don T -
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Overall, Week 15 provided decent action, but the announcing was terrible--at least judging from Sunday’s open threads and the brief time I spent turning off the TV's close captioning. It will get worse: the playoff picture clears, more games will be meaningless, and the broadcasts will shift from angles to

Mute ‘Em: Week 15 Music Guide

Don T -
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Last year I started to watch the Sunday games with the sound off, to let The Family put music. My hope was that they would tolerate 10+ hours of NFL on TV. (They didn't, and don't.) Still, I preferred watching games without SUDDENLY SO LOUD commercials, or narratives, tropes, and