Saturday, November 10, 2007

MASN Helping The NFL Screw You Over

The FCC's decision to get involved with the MASN/Comcast squabble from a few years back is being used as a precedent by the NFL to drop the hammer on Comcast and Time Warner to get them to carry the NFL Network (and, by extension, raising your cable bills).

Thanks for the legacy Messrs. Dupuy and Angelos!

douchebags.

posted by Chris Needham at 8:34 AM

7 Comments:

  • peter angelos molests collies. i realize this won't spur any dialogue (in fact, it's lifted verbatim from caddyshack) but i really hate seeing posts that remain commentless for a couple days.

    By Blogger DCPowerGator, at 11/12/2007 12:20 PM  

  • Spaulding!!!

    I, for one, can't wait to get the NFL network on stupid Time Warner.

    JT

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11/12/2007 4:25 PM  

  • A little off topic here, but anyone up for a second go around with Carl Pavano? Looks like the Yankees are going to release him.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11/12/2007 4:31 PM  

  • Anyone else notice that bit about His Holiness holding a mass in Nationals Stadium on April 15? [Insert obligatory comments about Ryan Church, Jesus Flores, Nationals concession prices and Lerner cheapness here.]

    By Blogger Michael Taylor, at 11/12/2007 5:21 PM  

  • yes, but Michael, the best part is the CNN report that refers to it as "the new National Stadium in Washington." I wholeheartedly support that. Does that make it like the National Mall? Or the National World War II Memorial. Indeed it does, and therefore our team of ragtags is better than everyone else's.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11/12/2007 7:01 PM  

  • I admit, National Stadium would have a very nice ring to it. Unfortunately, it's probably too nice a ring. We're inevitably going to be named "Generic Defense/Government Contractor Field" although a Congressional intervention and "William Jefferson Clinton Stadium" is my dark horse candidate. (j/k on this last point, although it does raise an interesting question)

    Chris, what are the specifics of the Nationals' stadium lease with regard to naming rights and such? Is there any possibility that the Nationals' sale of the name could be overridden by another body, i.e. DC sports commission or Congress?

    By Blogger Michael Taylor, at 11/12/2007 9:44 PM  

  • i'm not chris (who is?!) but if i recall the team owns all naming rights to the stadium and can keep all profit from that. i remember that because, to me, that was the most egregious part of the stadium. we (the city) built it and owns it but we can't even sell the naming rights? couldn't they have thrown us that one bone? uggghhh!

    By Blogger DCPowerGator, at 11/13/2007 9:07 AM  

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