John McCain VS The NFL

[lame54]

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/election08/323

Tonight, it's John McCain vs. the NFL, and the NFL will win out
Submitted by Chad on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 2:44pm. Be-Elected
You get to play Solomon: it's opening night of the NFL season with teams from the number one media market vs. a team from the nation's capital, and your network is broadcasting the game.

But it's also the night where the Republican presidential nominee makes his acceptance speech.

At 10 p.m. Eastern, when the game will likely still go on, what do you do? Cut away from the game? Go picture-in-picture? Join the speech in progress? Shift the speech to your cable news channel and show the speech in its entirety after the game?

If you aren't a football fan or a political fan, you have no dilemma. Of course, you can watch the speech on C-SPAN, PBS, CBS, ABC, FOX, CNN, Fox News Channel, BBC America, and MSNBC.

But what will NBC do?

The network already got the NFL to move up the kickoff from 8:30 p.m. to 7:07 p.m. (all times Eastern Daylight time). NBC says it won't switch away from the game, yet will cover the speech.

McCain and the Republicans could have avoided all of this, of course, if they weren't so adamant about a September convention.

There is a distinct possibility McCain will wait for NBC, possibly adding tension or boredom to the floor since they may plan for the speech around a football game.

Of course, Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech last week in a football stadium, combining two American pastimes.

The league offers that the average game last season lasted 3 hours and 3 minutes, a figure difficult to duplicate in a nationally televised game, which usually has more commercials and more TV timeouts.

So if John McCain is waiting in St. Paul, it's because the Giants and the Redskins are still battling it on the gridiron. Even a politician knows to not interfere in the NFL.

[SoFlaJet]

1. here's hoping they go into

overtime

[ben_meyers]

4. That's for sure, NBC won't do another "Heidi" game

OTOH, if it does end on time McCain will have one hell of a lead in.

[SoFlaJet]

7. I was watching that game Ben

all of a sudden Heidi is on and my Jets were gone-Joe got them back though in the Chapionship game

[XOKCowboy]

2. Darn it I wanted SOOOOO much to see Cindy's speech....

Do I need to add...

:sarcasm:

Go Giants! It'll make the Washington correspondents cranky when the 'Skins lose.

[fishnfla]

3. Fox will have Palin doing the play-by-play

and post-game locker room interviews

[Tempest]

5. By the time the game is over

Most of the east coast will be heading to bed.

[RB TexLa]

6. No dilemma here. I couldn't care if if miss the first 5, 10 or 30 minutes of the speech.