Please hear me out

I rarely post on here although been around for three years now. This is not purely football related post but rather a story of one very remote and isolated football fan lamenting over his current state of affairs.

Well, looks like my chances of watching Lions football, or any other pro football for that matter, next season are closing in to hit zero mark. First of all, this past Sunday I set the clock to wake up really early, 3:30am, to watch SB. Always sucks waking up that early and I actually do so on very few occasions – emergency, football and fishing (tho it’s been almost two years since I last smelled local muddy waters) – in that order. Anyway, it now appears that I got up in the middle of a night only to find my usual stream source seized (firstrowsports). I don’t know whether that had anything to do with all that SOPA/PIPA stuff. I think not as the site was up just two weeks ago (CCG) and was shut down right before the SB. I googled for alternative streams but all to no avail. So there I sat for the rest of the night staring at the highly entertaining drive chart on NFL.com. Glad I was all by myself in the room as it sure looked very retarded. If they shut down all stream videos I think I’ll consider Game Pass on NFL.com. Last year one team subscription price was around 200+USD, can’t remember exactly but think I’ll be able to scrape up required money. Have yet to talk my wife into it although I highly doubt she resists my charm.

But now there is another, much bigger threat to my fandom next season. We’ve bought a new apt last November and are about to move in once overhaul is complete. In December I went to a local ISP company to see if we could get a phone + ADSL package for our new place and was literally stunned by their reply that they don’t have a technical capability to provide me with their services. “No free pair in your condo”. They’ve advised me to wait so that maybe someone in our condo cancels his contract and the pair frees up. I was like holy smokes, that might never happen! And again they were sorry. So, when we move in there will be no phone (who needs one tho when every snotty kid has a celly) and, more importantly, no INTERNET… In this day and age, how the F do you not have a single free line in a multi-apt condo? I thought it was all part of our red flag past where people had to stay on long wait lists to get a phone. Obviously I thought wrong. You know, there is a saying, something like “Living on the verge of technical innovations is tough. We already have everything, yet nothing seems to work”. So true… If the above mentioned ISP does not somehow decide to drastically increase their client base by plugging me in then my only feasible shot at internet will be USB modem. But then again, we also happen to live in an area not covered by any 3G (let alone 4G) network so this option ultimately dooms me for anemic drive chart over on NFL.com. Yay!