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Primetime is BacK!!!!Back!!! BacK!!!!!!


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17 minutes ago, Virgil said:

Wait, the only way to watch is to pay for it?

 

Why are pay channels adding extra pay options. 

 

What is this, EA sports? 

 

For all of us who cut the cord and don't have ESPN anymore and haven't gone with Sling TV or Hulu Live.

 

Love that NFL Primetime is back. Will I pay for it? Not sure.

 

 

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Does this require ESPN App? Will Comcast On Demand have it available-is What’s important to me. 

I shared earlier this year I met Chris B & Tommy driving in to TPC for a charity golf tournament. They seemed genuinely surprised and happy I knew them immediately. We chatted for a few minutes -while traffic backed up behind them (like I cared..) Asked who my favorite team was. Recognizing the floor availed me, I smiled and did my Berman impression “the BUFFalo Bills!” Berman Immediately broke in to “NOBODY Circles the wagons, like the Buffalo Bills!” ?❤️

It. Was. Awesome.

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31 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

Is Chris Berman that broke, or that bored?

I’m going with bored. He seemed genuinely happy to be recognized..

 

I suspect -without any knowledge- there’s been a significant call for them to return. They’re (ESPN) not blind. They’ve likely lost half their viewing audience from the time the show was stopped/cancelled.

 

Then again, I’m old.

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1 hour ago, Chandler#81 said:

I’m going with bored. He seemed genuinely happy to be recognized..

 

I suspect -without any knowledge- there’s been a significant call for them to return. They’re (ESPN) not blind. They’ve likely lost half their viewing audience from the time the show was stopped/cancelled.

 

Then again, I’m old.

 

Plus his wife was killed in a car accident a couple years ago, so he probably needs something to do to save his mental health.  

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13 hours ago, Mark Vader said:

Why would they not put this on ESPN or ESPN2?

 

Do they think they would not get viewers?

i know they originally lost the ability to do Primetime when NBC got the Sunday Night Package. NBC paid so much for the games, they got that Sunday night 7-8:30 window exclusive for highlights show. Sure ESPN now has figured out that does not covering a streaming only chanell. I am sure NBC is livid, and i am sure it took till now for the lawyers to clear it

13 hours ago, DuckyBoys said:

don't know that it will be the same but I will always have fond memories of early fantasy football watching the show trying to get stats before the paper would come out the following day

me too brother! Man was it ever the rush to fins a USA Today every Monday and Tuesday morning strictly for the box scores!!!

4 hours ago, CaptnCoke11 said:

People actually pay extra to watch certain espn channels?  Stupid

as a 3 year old would say..you stupid!!!!

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5 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

Had too, NBC contract with.NFL gave them exclusive window on highlights. 

 

Well, they could no longer air in that time slot but nothing was stopping them from continuing the show.

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For people of a certain age (born before 1975) this show represents everything that was great about the NFL. Great in depth highlights, great analysis, great humour and Chris Berman who loved the Buffalo Bills. It was an utter travesty that the idiots in the league agreed with the Aholes at NBC that ESPN could no longer run NFL primetime at 7PM on Sundays.  Why? because it might distract viewers from NBC's epically lame football night in America highlights which basically was weak in all the areas where Primetime was strong.  ESPN for their part should have pressed on with the show with full support but instead ran it in a different slot where it withered and died. 

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9 hours ago, Buffalo Barbarian said:

 

they have the UFC and other sports leagues and programming that isnt on regular ESPN.

 

 

and its $5 a month, or $60 for the year..i will spend more on beer in the first half of the opener next week

54 minutes ago, Livinginthepast said:

For people of a certain age (born before 1975) this show represents everything that was great about the NFL. Great in depth highlights, great analysis, great humour and Chris Berman who loved the Buffalo Bills. It was an utter travesty that the idiots in the league agreed with the Aholes at NBC that ESPN could no longer run NFL primetime at 7PM on Sundays.  Why? because it might distract viewers from NBC's epically lame football night in America highlights which basically was weak in all the areas where Primetime was strong.  ESPN for their part should have pressed on with the show with full support but instead ran it in a different slot where it withered and died. 

i can distinctly remember coming home from Bills games in 87 and being like ...whoaa this is awesome! Don't Have to wait up till 11:30 anymore fpor the George Michael Sports Machine! As a side note, when i moved to the District in 88, I was shocked George Michael was the sports guy at NBC in DC!!!

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On 9/13/2019 at 8:08 PM, KD in CA said:

 

Plus his wife was killed in a car accident a couple years ago, so he probably needs something to do to save his mental health.  

His wife was 3x over the limit and killed someone just going about his day. I imagine he had some idea of her drunk driving habits and have little sympathy towards him in this regard, though I imagine the emotions of someone whose partner’s reckless and selfish behavior took someone’s life are unimaginably complex. 

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