Why...

...in this day and age would anyone just automatically assume that someone else is watching the game live?

Klompus...you may have the floor.

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["the" Tony Cooke]

What happened?

["the" Tony Cooke]

I see. He dropped the game winner....and now he's blaming god!!!

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2010/11/28/2010-11-28_stevie_johnson_buffalo_bills_wideout_blames_god_on_twitter_after_dropping_gamewi.html?r=sports

[Jack Klompus]

"Why...in this day and age would anyone just automatically assume that someone else is watching the game live?"

Aw, I'm sorry. Did I cockblock your Tivo?

"Klompus...you may have the floor."

Ok, I think Bruce Arians might be the worst offensive coordinator in the league.

[Vandelay]

Aw, I'm sorry. Did I cockblock your Tivo?

Big time. Please don't do that anymore. I'm all about the DVR these days.

[Jack Klompus]

"Big time."

My sequence of texts were as follows:

1. "Big INT for Snukka."
2. "Bledsoeberger."
3. "Lucky"

The third was was right after Johnson dropped the pass, not after Suisham's FG. Even still, that was all pretty non-descript. I can't see how that really spoiled your experience. I wouldn't recommend any Steeler fan watch that 2nd half anyway. It was gross.

"Please don't do that anymore."

Thanks for reminding me that you don't like that.

[Vandelay]

Because I enjoy watching the game. When I know things that are going to happen at the end of the game it takes away from the experience big time. It wrecks everything that happens before it because you know it's going to be close at the end and Polamalu will have a pick and Ben will get sacked and the Steelers will ultimately get lucky and win. There's no mystery to anything that happens before that. I had no reason to believe they were gonna put the Bills away so I knew that the offense was going to struggle in the 2nd half before it started.

Anyway...not your fault. I just thought you knew about DVRs.

[Jack Klompus]

"Ben will get sacked"

Yeah, I really let the cat out of the bag on that mystery. Because that never happens.

"I just thought you knew about DVRs."

I do. I also got some insider information about these things called calendars and schedules. And how NFL teams have a tendency to play games on Sunday afternoons.

[Assman]

If you're TiVoing a game and you're a big fan, you're not supposed to check your texts.

You know they're all saying things like, "Another interception for Gradkowski" and "Why can't they tackle Ricky Williams? I thought pot made you slower."

[Jack Klompus]

"If you're TiVoing a game and you're a big fan, you're not supposed to check your texts."

But it's okay to avoid the reality that you are actually TiVoing with the sole intent of preserving the experience, excitement and mystery that awaits you at the beckoning of a Bills-Steelers gauntlet. Because who would ever want to be robbed of that guaranteed instant classic fuckin' rollercoaster ride. You'd be kicking yinzself.

[Vandelay]

Look...I get 16 of these a season and I cherish every second of it. Sometimes life (or wiffle ball) gets in the way and you're forced to use the technology you have at your disposal. I'd rather watch a Bills-Steelers tilt than game 7 of the NBA championship.

If you're TiVoing a game and you're a big fan, you're not supposed to check your texts.

Totally. Had to keep the phone on for the wife. I'm accepting accountability for forgetting about the stupid push notification on the iPhone here...just taking advantage of an opportunity to make Klompus feel bad which of course failed miserably. The only one I actually saw unfortunately was the "lucky" but tat was the worst one I could have seen. Yeah, I kind of knew Ben was gonna get sacked.

[Jack Klompus]

"Sometimes life (or wiffle ball) gets in the way and you're forced to use the technology you have at your disposal."

Or you're forced to accept that fact that life got in the way and you had to miss a non-marquee, shitty matchup. It happens sometimes. You don't use technology as an excuse for being a petulant female poodle. Besides, I always thought Sports TiVoing was mainly for when you're home watching the game and have to take a dump or go get more beer. Or get a blowjob (if you're not married).

[Brody]

While siding with Vandelay on this discussion as both a witness to the event(whiffle ball) and also a DVR junky. Assman has a great point, as I actually have my wife check/answer all media devices if I have not seen the Steeler game yet. But in full disclosure, Vandelay is pissed because during our whiffle game the hostess came out and when we said don't tell us the scores, she agreed and just said the steelers won! So we were pissed that the ending was blown until 5 minutes later the host of whiffle informed us his misses was wrong and we are in OT. So this story combined with the texts make one hellacious event for poor old Vandelay.

[Jack Klompus]

So, dedicated Steeler fans wiffle up during gametime and assume because they have DVR, the rest of the world needs to wait for their wiffly little game to finish? I don't think so. Buncha wifflin' fags...

[Vandelay]

Buncha wifflin' fags...

This coming from the guy that declined an offer to taste my curveball.

[Jack Klompus]

"an offer to taste my curveball."

I rest my case.

[Dr. Whatley (in the house)]

I'd rather watch a Bills-Steelers tilt than game 7 of the NBA championship.

Amen to that.