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They are thinking of moving the game to another saturday game AGAIN, and once again they will NOT show the game anywhere nationally except for the local Miami and Pittsburgh areas!

We need to stop this before the decision is made! NOW!

I strongly encourage people to follow the following links and email these people.

http://www.nfl.com/help/emailtech

Its the tech support email but bytch them out anyway.

mailto:dolphins@miamidolphins.com

Threaten boycott! Do what you have to do! I'll organize a boycott of NFL games if you guys are with me. This is FRICKING RIDICULOUS.

Email your local sports writers! Contact Alex Marvez! Contact Ethan Skolnick!

eskolnick@sun-sentinel.com

amarvez@sun-sentinel.com

dhyde@sun-sentinel.com

dlebatard@herald.com

jcole@herald.com

greg_stoda@pbpost.com

joe_schad@pbpost.com


I BEG YOU GUYS! DO IT NOW!
 
Screw that! Thats not true! They were thinking of moving it to Monday or Tuesday. Email them and get them to ALLOW BROADCAST. This is ridiculous!
 
Monday or tuesday would give us no time to prepare(tuesday i mean) and after a hurricane would cause too many problems to get to the game, crashes, injures, flooding and such.
 
There is no way that I would ever want to have the team move the game to a night it could be broadcast if that meant hurting the team's ability to be ready for the Jets. The team says Monday or Tuesday isn't acceptable, and I side with them.
 
The problem with that article is that, as Pro Football Talk pointed out when they found out the laws exactly as that article explains them, the NFL DID allow broadcast of the game within 75 miles of college football games that were being played on that Saturday. Specifically in some of the markets they broadcast to in Tennessee.
 
Monday or tuesday would give us no time to prepare(tuesday i mean) and after a hurricane would cause too many problems to get to the game, crashes, injures, flooding and such.
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Yeah, because Monday football games never happen. :rolleyes:
 
For me personally I hope they move the game to Saturday. I live in the area where they are predicting the eye of Hurricane Jeane to hit, and I am sure that I will be losing power on Sunday morning (at the latest) so if they move the game to Saturday I should be able to watch it.:) If it is Sunday or later then I am sure that I will have to miss a game for the first time in years.:fire: Anyway, I hope it works out for all the Fin fans to be able to watch.
 
Okay...so what? If you're arguing that you should be getting it in Tampa, go ahead and write the NFL. Not all of live in Tampa or have that slim hope...
 
They said they're not moving it to Monday. They've already promised Cower that. So it will either be played on Saturday or Sunday.

If it's on Saturday, they will show the game on tape delay just like the opener. They may also be able to show it live because of a loop hole in the rule.

It says:

"On any Friday after six o'clock postmeridian or on any Saturday during the period beginning on the second Friday in September and ending on the second Saturday in December in any year from any telecasting station located within seventy-five miles of game site of any intercollegiate or interscholastic football contest scheduled to be played on such a date."

So technically, since the Hurricanes played tonight, they won't be playing within 75 miles of the game site (Pro Player), SOOOO, DirecTV can carry the game live.

How about a night game nationally televised?
 
The problem with that article is that, as Pro Football Talk pointed out when they found out the laws exactly as that article explains them, the NFL DID allow broadcast of the game within 75 miles of college football games that were being played on that Saturday. Specifically in some of the markets they broadcast to in Tennessee.
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No you've completely lost me. I thought that the reason the NFL wouldn't allow Directv to bring the game to it's users on opening day was because of the 75 mile law. IE if a collegiate game was scheduled (originally back in August) to be on Saturday and that is within 75 miles of where the pro team is to play it's postpone/makeup game, then the game can't be rebroadcast live. In this specific case, there are no collegiate games scheduled within a 75 mile radius of Pro player - Uof M had their game tonight. THerefore, there should be no restriction on broadcasting the Dolphins-Steelers game live via DirecTV.

Am I reading the info incorrectly?
 
I wouldn't hold my breath. Are you certain that no high school or even small college has a game on Saturday? Even if the answer is definitely no to that question, you still have worry about the gloss that the law has taken on in the time since it has been passed and at the effect its action could have on any sort of longstanding agreement or gentleman's agreement they have with the NCAA. Finally, you have to worry about what constitutes a "telecasting station". I have my doubts that this would be taken to mean the field the game is being played on.
 
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