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Deadman Walking: 2015 is the year that Cable TV died

We cut the cord five weeks ago and have not looked back.

Unbundling Pay-TV Brings New Questions ~ Keach Hagey and Shalini Ramachandran (Subscription Required)

In the span of a few months, tectonic shifts are remaking a television landscape it took decades to sculpt, opening up a range of other possibilities for “cord cutters” who don’t want traditional pay TV.

It is impacting radio too folks though that aspect has not been as heavily reported. Gone are the days of a morning drive where one’s listening choices boiled down between choosing amongst competing pairs of ignorant Hilly Billy DJs that all bitched about the Democrats in between sparsely placed musical selections.

More links on the topic can be found here. I’d personally shy away from investing in Cable TV providers but I note that Comcast, for example, is trading close to its 52 week high.

Jeff Duncan takes certain clueless ESPN talking heads and CBSSports.com columnists to the woodshed and exposes their ignorance. A Sean Payton family crisis update.

Is Colin Cowherd at ESPN really that clueless or is he trying to suck up to the Coach?  Is CBSSports.com’s Gregg Doyel really that ignorant of this area’s unique culture and relationship with its pro football team, one that even a die hard Chicago Bears fan termed as the kind of fan support “that I haven’t seen in the 20-plus NFL cities that I have visited in my lifetime. The kind of support that the New Orleans Saints fans who live and work in the area give is something that I have never seen.”?

Well folks, the answer is yes and yes as T-P sports reporter Jeff Duncan politely points out in his column today.

Now I’d like to take a minute to send a special message to Gregg Doyel, the ignorant fuck at CBSSports.com who whipped out the meme about the people here playing the Katrina victim card to run down the fan reaction to Sean Payton’s move to Dallas.  After Katrina took my house, cars, most everything I owned and almost the lives of me and my family many very kind people stepped in to lend my family and this entire area a helping hand.  We remain forever grateful for the outpouring of support.  That said, while the generosity gave everyone a much needed helping hand in the recovery process, the overwhelming majority of the people here managed to recover due to their own hard work.  Those were some mighty tough days 5 years ago and while it is an experience I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy it is also one I would never trade for any amount of money and not because I get to play a perpetual victim. The Slabbed Nation triumphed over the tragedy that was Katrina and that is what makes the experience special. Continue reading “Jeff Duncan takes certain clueless ESPN talking heads and CBSSports.com columnists to the woodshed and exposes their ignorance. A Sean Payton family crisis update.”

I would submit the east coast sports media has an unhealthy man crush on NFC East teams.

With the Saints-Falcon Monday night game in the record books fitting nicely with last year’s Monday night viewing record coupled with the Eagles crushing loss to the lowly Vikings makes me ask that the guys on ESPN please shut up about NFC East teams for once. (Pat Yasinskas and his excellent NFC South blog excepted.) I think most everyone with half a football brain has figured out by now that real football in the NFC is played here down south.

I had to get that off my chest.

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