Pet Peeve of the Day: Lightning. What’s the worst nightmare of a Denver Broncos fan? No, it’s not getting beaten 33-19 by the Kansas City Chiefs, which happened last week, although that does come close. It’s sitting down to watch the game on TV on a Sunday afternoon only to have the transmission tower of the local station broadcasting the game get knocked out by a lightning strike. It affected satellite viewers (both HiDef and Standard Def) as well as over-the-air (both analog and digital), and supposedly some but not all cable customers. Since I have satellite and OTA, I just got a blank screen.
I guess I must be not be as big a fan as I thought I was, since once that happened, I didn’t have a lot of interest in waiting around to see if service was going to be restored. I got caught up in watching other things I had recorded, and never went back to fully watching the game against Tampa Bay even after the broadcast came back. I did check in at one point in the third quarter and saw the score was 16-6 Broncos, or something like that, so that was made me feel good. They wound up winning 16-13. I do kind of wish I had watched it, since apparently the Broncos defense finally came out to play for the first time all season. N and I will be attending the game against the Jaguars next week, so I hope the donkeys can keep it up. We’ve haven’t had much luck attending winning games in the last few years. I don’t want to see a repeat of last week’s Kansas City debacle. Do us proud, Broncos. A 4-1 record at this point ain’t nothing to sneeze at.
Yeah, I didn’t watch the Broncos win, and that was bad of me. But at least I pretty much got caught up on my TV watching after the vacation…
Latre.
Jogged Today: Yes (@ 49°F)
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Jogging:
- “Stop Shooting Off Stars” (The Innocents)
- “Downtime” (Blake Babies)
- “Clock In Now” (The Deathray Davies)
- “Bad Seed” (Three Lb Thrill)
- “Dripping With Looks” (Game Theory)
- “Healing” (Trotsky Icepick)
- “ME 262 (live)” (Blue Öyster Cult)
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “crunchwrap not crunchy”.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Lisa // Oct 6, 2008 at 5:53 pm
We watched it on satellite at the bar, once the local signal went out they make access to the pay NFL channel open to all until the game returned.
2 InfK // Oct 6, 2008 at 11:20 pm
> What’s the worst nightmare of a Denver Broncos fan?
My first guess had something to do with prison shower incidents - gosh, was I way off!