NFL Sunday Ticket Just Got Better

Well, not the Ticket actually but the way in which we watch it. Directv has recently rolled out its new service that allows you to watch a show in one room, pause it, and pick it up in another. It also allows for only one DVR to be watched on up to 15 TV's, and if each TV has its own DVR then you can access any DVR from any TV in the house meaning that the recorded viewing capacity in each room in my house just quadrupled.

For Sunday Ticket Subscribers this is a Godsend. Now I can watch Bradford get plowed under anywhere in my house and dont have to record the game on each DVR in order to watch it anywhere in the house. And for a 4 hour time slot recorded in HD this rocks!

The DVR space required for this was tremendous so I only recorded the game in one room and then I was stuck watching it in that room - well no more! So I guess that the Rams will get my share of the Ticket this year too, dangit. It seems like every year at this time I get the resolve NOT to spend $400 on them but then something happens to change that, and here we are again. Hopefully this year it will be worth it.

#80 is Number 1

Isaac Bruce came home to retire as he should. It turned my stomach to see him in Whiner gear, something that never should have happened but for Coach's desire to keep the team winningless. He and Holt formed the best WR tandem in the league IMHO, and it will just be a matter of time before Holt comes back home too, if only for one day also. Bruce will always be #1 in my heart, for putting up with all the unbearable years of bad players and terrible QBs and even worse Coaches. This year we will make him proud and bring something else back to the Gateway - the championship is coming back to St Louis too. YEAH!

Yippee

I love all the talk about draft grades when none of these guys have even played yet. Bradford was a nice pick, but for my money we should have taken Suh and the look who's there in the second round for us to pick - Jimmy Clausen. Would have been a steal of a draft and worth grading ahead of time then. Now we have about 50% good and 50% not so good staring us in the face and another $400 Sunday Ticket staring me in the face. Wow. For my money i'd just as soon spend that money on bills, so its bye bye Sunday Ticket for this year. I say Yippee to another experimental year of Rams football and will wait anxiously to see who the Rams pick #1 next year.

April Fools

Why is it that this time of year the stupidest holiday of the year manifests itself at the best event of the year? Of course, if the NFL Draft wasn't always a make-or-break for the Rams it would help too. The past few years have shown that when it comes to the Rams management and drafts they are prone to be fooled more than not. Lauranitis is the ONLY first round player to pay dividends in his first year since SJ39 in 2004, so hopefully we are not in for another 5 year drought. Bradford or Suh, don't trade down, and don't pick anyone from the Ducks. All that should make for a great start to 2010.