Comments on: The NHL tried to kill me http://jasonhaberman.com/2006/05/10/the-nhl-tried-to-kill-me/ Blogging about Life, Love, Boise State Football and lots of other crap. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:14:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: In The World… » Champions http://jasonhaberman.com/2006/05/10/the-nhl-tried-to-kill-me//comment-page-1#comment-83 In The World… » Champions Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:56:24 +0000 http://jasonhaberman.com/?p=13#comment-83 [...] In the past 2 nights we have had 2 sport champions crowned. The Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup on Monday and Tuesday, the Miami Heat won the NBA championship. Really, I had very little invested in either series. Having not seen NHL hockey since 2004 and being at best a lukewarm fan of the NBA, I wasn’t real intrigued. I did, however, tune into the games from time to time, simply because they were broadcast in high def. I’m telling you, sports is what high def does best. There is no question. If you have yet to view such an event in HD, do not wait any longer. The picture is so good that even regular season baseball games are interesting. Really, the only real good thing about these two sports ending the seasons means that we are that much closer to the real sports season… Football. Now, without the seemingly never ending NBA coverage to waste time with (and the cursory glance they gave to the NHL), SportsCenter can get back to their day jobs of covering the hell out of the NFL. Training camps open in roughly a month. Soon, they will begin breaking down every team, one per day, and analyze every aspect of the off season moves and the upcoming season. College players start practice a little after that and we start to talk about who is favored in the big rivalries… Michigan/Ohio State… Alabama/Auburn… The worlds largest outdoor cocktail party… the red river shootout… the civil war… Just typing it makes me excited. [...] [...] In the past 2 nights we have had 2 sport champions crowned. The Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup on Monday and Tuesday, the Miami Heat won the NBA championship. Really, I had very little invested in either series. Having not seen NHL hockey since 2004 and being at best a lukewarm fan of the NBA, I wasn’t real intrigued. I did, however, tune into the games from time to time, simply because they were broadcast in high def. I’m telling you, sports is what high def does best. There is no question. If you have yet to view such an event in HD, do not wait any longer. The picture is so good that even regular season baseball games are interesting. Really, the only real good thing about these two sports ending the seasons means that we are that much closer to the real sports season… Football. Now, without the seemingly never ending NBA coverage to waste time with (and the cursory glance they gave to the NHL), SportsCenter can get back to their day jobs of covering the hell out of the NFL. Training camps open in roughly a month. Soon, they will begin breaking down every team, one per day, and analyze every aspect of the off season moves and the upcoming season. College players start practice a little after that and we start to talk about who is favored in the big rivalries… Michigan/Ohio State… Alabama/Auburn… The worlds largest outdoor cocktail party… the red river shootout… the civil war… Just typing it makes me excited. [...]

]]> By: Copythat http://jasonhaberman.com/2006/05/10/the-nhl-tried-to-kill-me//comment-page-1#comment-15 Copythat Mon, 15 May 2006 09:18:50 +0000 http://jasonhaberman.com/?p=13#comment-15 I Feel your pain. I Havent lost the connection to the sport however as I Play 3 nights a week :) Hopefully Gary Bettman gets hit by a .....Large, speeding object of any kind and his sucessor doesn't have his head lodged anywhere dark and we can watch some games again. I Feel your pain. I Havent lost the connection to the sport however as I Play 3 nights a week :)
Hopefully Gary Bettman gets hit by a …..Large, speeding object of any kind and his sucessor doesn’t have his head lodged anywhere dark and we can watch some games again.

]]> By: Chris http://jasonhaberman.com/2006/05/10/the-nhl-tried-to-kill-me//comment-page-1#comment-9 Chris Thu, 11 May 2006 04:53:21 +0000 http://jasonhaberman.com/?p=13#comment-9 Get DirecTV :). No investment of a bundle of cash... you can probably get free installation & hardware (non HD) with a 1 year commitment. I think the HD Reciever would cost you $99... the HD DVR is $399. DirecTV has OLN & NHL Center Ice. The bummer would be that Boise local HD channels aren't offered with DirecTV... you'd need to get them off-air. -Chris Get DirecTV :) . No investment of a bundle of cash… you can probably get free installation & hardware (non HD) with a 1 year commitment. I think the HD Reciever would cost you $99… the HD DVR is $399.

DirecTV has OLN & NHL Center Ice.

The bummer would be that Boise local HD channels aren’t offered with DirecTV… you’d need to get them off-air.

-Chris

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