Saturday, August 12, 2006

The Bad Thing About Living In Houston

Overall (contrary to what most in North Texas believe), Houston isn't that bad of a place. However, there is one drawback: the Dallas Cowboys aren't here.

The Cowboys' first preseason game is tonight. The Cowboys are popular throughout Texas, including Houston. However, the Cowboy game is not on TV in the Houston area tonight. It seems that Jerry Jones and Bob McNair have an agreement: Cowboy games won't be on radio or preseason TV in Houston, and likewise for Texans games in Dallas.

This doesn't apply to regular season games (property of CBS and Fox), as the Cowboys will be on TV every week in Houston, as long as their games are not played at the same time as a Texans home game. This will happen a couple of times this year. This is one of the results of the NFL's archaic TV policy: Fox cannot show a game at the same time that a home game in the home team's market is shown on CBS, even if said game is a sellout. So, if the Cowboys play at 12:00, and the Texans play the early game at home, the Cowboy game cannot be shown.

Last year, as the Texans were redefining the word suck, and the Cowboys were competitive, the Cowboys were drawing bigger TV ratings in Houston than the Texans. Obviously, that would change if the Texans improved on the field.

Why am I writing this? I'm in the state of Texas, and can't watch the Cowboys tonight. That's too bad.

I'll be able to watch the next Cowboy preseason game. It's on ESPN Monday Night Football, next Monday against the Saints, live from Shreveport.

6 comments:

Zee said...

Hey John, I know this is unrelated to the cowboys or the Sooners, but did you see the article about Clarett and his association with the Israeli mob? Craziness - http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/5884666 - thought you'd enjoy it. THE Ohio State University - lol!

John said...

I saw the article yesterday about Clarett and the Israeli mob. That's the craziest thing I've ever heard. Even crazier: It's not surprising.

Maurice comes from the mob-ridden city of Youngstown. However, this Israeli mob sounds like a totally different animal.

Don't mess with Israel!

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