Three weeks ago, CBS had a fight with Dish network. They wanted Dish to charge its customers (us) more. I don’t know the details and it doesn’t make sense, because CBS is not a premium channel Anyway, CBS removed themselves from Dish and I couldn’t watch my favorite program, The Good Wife. I streamed it on Amazon and paid $2.99 for each episode I missed. But before I could do this, I had to call Amazon and get walked through the process of signing their “conditions”.

Last week, Ed saw an article in the paper that said the situation was resolved and I checked the CBS channel right away and there was pregame stuff for the Super Bowl, so obviously they all decided to play nice because big bucks were involved. I never know when the Super Bowl is on, nor do I pay attention to the Emmies, the Oscars, the Tonys. If one of my programs is the victim, I am not happy. I would rather watch anything else, except maybe for religious programming and another Vera Hruba Ralston or Randolph Scott festival.

Do the fans really want this much lead up? And CBS runs games on Sunday nights through the year and if they go into overtime, not at all uncommon, my programs (I also like Madame Secretary that comes on just before The Good Wife) are delayed, if I get to watch them at all. A lot of wake up and smell the coffee is also going on with brain injuries to the players in later life, and sometimes not so later, and I am starting not to care because you can’t fix clueless.

I do think they have to change the way the game is played and the coaches should show their teams videos of retired players with dementia so they can wind down the violence on the field. Do fans like to see the mayhem? I’m guessing some do. Do you think young players today would go on as they have if they knew they could be drooling and staring vacantly into space by age 50?

With sincere apologies to all my MyBloggers friends who love footabolo, as my Mom used to call it.

xx, Teal