This isn’t a scam. A scam is when you charge me Louisville prices for a Western Kentucky game!
Why is UK participating in a scam?
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Boomer here. I've been streaming TV for over 7 years now. I get a subscription to ESPN+ every fall so I can also get the ETSU games. No issues here.
I don't think old is the issue, there are a lot of older people who get it.
Id bet someone will have it live streamed on this board tonight.
My 77 year old mother can do it. It's more a matter of motivation versus not being able to do it. Mom resisted for years and then dad broke his hip which sent his dementia into overdrive. The show Blue Bloods was literally the only thing that could keep his attention and keep him calm. She learned how to use the Roku real quick.
Sometimes it's just easier to get mad.
The modern day cable and streaming access is great, but don't be so hard on those of us from Gen-X (and boomers by extension).
If you couldn't get a ticket to the game, I remember fondly anticipating a tape-delay UK FB game on the UHF band - WKYT - Channel 27 with young sportscasters like Rob Bromley calling the game.
After the game (and on the caffeine high from a couple of bottles of Ale-8-1), we could dive right into the last episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus on Channel 18 after which we would get the National Anthem and the color bars until the next morning.
The next day after church....all the stores and restaurants were closed (blue laws), but we could rush home and catch the Fran Curci show that kicked off with "Good Morning Freedom" as its theme song. The coaches' shows were really the only in depth "highlights" we could get in a pre-cable/pre-ESPN world. These were the days of white helmets, the Power K, dark blue uniforms, cats paws on the back of the players' helmets as a reward for noteworthy plays, and an Old Don Jacobs commercial to break up the show.
Then....we only had four more days of no-football before you could pick up the first Friday-afternoon broadcast of Leonard's Losers on the radio to preview the next week's college football slate.
Rinse/repeat.
It wasn't perfect....but it was Kentucky football in my youth.
Tonight, I'll happily use my ESPN+ subscription to watch the Cats from my home in SC. I subscribe to ESPN+ because I attended a FCS school and ESPN+ is pretty much the exclusive provider of those games ....along with mid-major college basketball and college baseball. The occasional Kentucky Wildcats appearance on ESPN+ is a bonus for me.
Now let's get out there and "....hold that ball and hit that line..."
GBB!
If you couldn't get a ticket to the game, I remember fondly anticipating a tape-delay UK FB game on the UHF band - WKYT - Channel 27 with young sportscasters like Rob Bromley calling the game.
After the game (and on the caffeine high from a couple of bottles of Ale-8-1), we could dive right into the last episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus on Channel 18 after which we would get the National Anthem and the color bars until the next morning.
The next day after church....all the stores and restaurants were closed (blue laws), but we could rush home and catch the Fran Curci show that kicked off with "Good Morning Freedom" as its theme song. The coaches' shows were really the only in depth "highlights" we could get in a pre-cable/pre-ESPN world. These were the days of white helmets, the Power K, dark blue uniforms, cats paws on the back of the players' helmets as a reward for noteworthy plays, and an Old Don Jacobs commercial to break up the show.
Then....we only had four more days of no-football before you could pick up the first Friday-afternoon broadcast of Leonard's Losers on the radio to preview the next week's college football slate.
Rinse/repeat.
It wasn't perfect....but it was Kentucky football in my youth.
Tonight, I'll happily use my ESPN+ subscription to watch the Cats from my home in SC. I subscribe to ESPN+ because I attended a FCS school and ESPN+ is pretty much the exclusive provider of those games ....along with mid-major college basketball and college baseball. The occasional Kentucky Wildcats appearance on ESPN+ is a bonus for me.
Now let's get out there and "....hold that ball and hit that line..."
GBB!
IT DOESN'T WORK. How many times does does that need to be said??? I don't want to watch a computer screen, and dont trust SEC+. I paid the $10 for ESPN+.. All of the methods discussed above just didn't work, believe it or not.
And because their AD’s agreed to it to fleece more money out of loyal fans. Remember Bo Scmbacler (incorrect spelling ) telling the media Michigan football is played at one o’clock on Saturdays . If you want to televise it then that’s fine .
Would you rather watch a computer screen or listen on radio?
How many times does it need to be said that if you have a cable subscription that includes the SECN, you WIL NOT have to pay extra to watch this game on the ESPN app.
this is insane, how can so many people be this clueless to how this works after having it explained 10 times in 10 different ways?
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Boomer? Really, Boomer??
Boomers are pushing 80. They're watching this game with their grandkids.
I'm proudly Gen-X. The problem is not that I can't figure out the technology. Heck, just last week, I hotwired a microwave oven into the CD player of my Saturn Vue so that I could enjoy a hotpocket while I listen to REM. Take a break, Driver 8.
No, the problem is not that I can't figure it out. The problem is that ain't nobody got time for that. If I wanna stream that game,
a) I'm gonna have to sort out the difference between ESPN+, ESPN-, SECNow, SECWhere, and SECWhen.
b) Then I'm gonna have to deal with my wife. Because you see, way back when, my wife generously offered to open the cable account in her name, and I didn't stop her. Do you know why? Because never in the history of cable TV has it been necessary to provide a password to watch TV. Diff'rent Strokes didn't ask for passwords. SECX should require one either. But now I have to deal with my wife because she doesn't have any idea what password the cable company assigned her and heaven forbid you click "Forgot Password" because now the cable company is gonna send my wife the reset email and I'm gonna have to call her at the hair salon because she's a vegetarian and thinks pigskin is a crime.
c) Then I'm gonna have to figure out my devices. My perfectly operational 1st generation iPAD? It's large enough and the image is great, but Apple obsoleted it just because. It can't download any more apps. OK, but my phone is too small and even if it weren't then I couldn't simultaneously watch the game and crackass in the game thread. Then there's my laptop, but if I watch the game on my laptop, some corner of my brain will not be able to break down Miami of Ohio's pass defense because it's too busy watching the beer in my left hand and fretting over the proprietary data that I haven't yet uploaded to the cloud.
d) So, now I've got figure out some screen mirroring or HDMI nonsense, which means digging through the box in the basement for a cable I haven't used since this game last year. Then I've gotta wire up the laptop in such a way that druncle (TM) doesn't trip over it.
Can I figure it out? Yes, I can figure it out. I'll be ready to go right around the start of the second quarter, because it's gonna take about 45 minutes of futzing around the house (notwithstanding the excellent advice and instruction offered by Glenn's Take early this week). Maybe a retired Boomer or a Mr. Low-Key Gen-Z has time for that, but I've got a J-O-B and a K-I-D. And suddenly the dulcet voice of Tom Leach is luring me home.
Good day, Sir. I said, Good day.
Boomers are pushing 80. They're watching this game with their grandkids.
I'm proudly Gen-X. The problem is not that I can't figure out the technology. Heck, just last week, I hotwired a microwave oven into the CD player of my Saturn Vue so that I could enjoy a hotpocket while I listen to REM. Take a break, Driver 8.
No, the problem is not that I can't figure it out. The problem is that ain't nobody got time for that. If I wanna stream that game,
a) I'm gonna have to sort out the difference between ESPN+, ESPN-, SECNow, SECWhere, and SECWhen.
b) Then I'm gonna have to deal with my wife. Because you see, way back when, my wife generously offered to open the cable account in her name, and I didn't stop her. Do you know why? Because never in the history of cable TV has it been necessary to provide a password to watch TV. Diff'rent Strokes didn't ask for passwords. SECX should require one either. But now I have to deal with my wife because she doesn't have any idea what password the cable company assigned her and heaven forbid you click "Forgot Password" because now the cable company is gonna send my wife the reset email and I'm gonna have to call her at the hair salon because she's a vegetarian and thinks pigskin is a crime.
c) Then I'm gonna have to figure out my devices. My perfectly operational 1st generation iPAD? It's large enough and the image is great, but Apple obsoleted it just because. It can't download any more apps. OK, but my phone is too small and even if it weren't then I couldn't simultaneously watch the game and crackass in the game thread. Then there's my laptop, but if I watch the game on my laptop, some corner of my brain will not be able to break down Miami of Ohio's pass defense because it's too busy watching the beer in my left hand and fretting over the proprietary data that I haven't yet uploaded to the cloud.
d) So, now I've got figure out some screen mirroring or HDMI nonsense, which means digging through the box in the basement for a cable I haven't used since this game last year. Then I've gotta wire up the laptop in such a way that druncle (TM) doesn't trip over it.
Can I figure it out? Yes, I can figure it out. I'll be ready to go right around the start of the second quarter, because it's gonna take about 45 minutes of futzing around the house (notwithstanding the excellent advice and instruction offered by Glenn's Take early this week). Maybe a retired Boomer or a Mr. Low-Key Gen-Z has time for that, but I've got a J-O-B and a K-I-D. And suddenly the dulcet voice of Tom Leach is luring me home.
Good day, Sir. I said, Good day.
Thank you, young man. Do you remember my password? It won’t work.
Seriously, naming half the crap out there “plus” causes 90% of the confusion. What, did we run out of names?
FALSE. UK voluntarily chooses to be part of the SEC and thus are as responsible as anyone, if not more, since it's their games.
you had me until J-O-B, that’s 80 year old boomer speak if I ever heard it!! Nice try gramps!!!
LoL what a hilarious thread. Thank God we get our 1 streaming game out of the way week 1!!!
All you olds, sorry the world moves on. I'm old enough to remember games on tape delay at 11:30 pm, and trying to avoid finding out the score. I can remember buying a pay per view cable box for $29.99, having to drive to pick it up & take it back.
Either hop on the train or get run over by it. By 2024 multiple games will be streaming only, conference games, SEC and B1g ten.
It really isn't that damn complicated: if you have cable, if you have satellite,and get SEC network, YOU GET THE GAME FREE. fact, truth. I've got just the plain ESPN app on my TLC big screen. I'm watching tonight, paying 0.00 extra.
All you olds, sorry the world moves on. I'm old enough to remember games on tape delay at 11:30 pm, and trying to avoid finding out the score. I can remember buying a pay per view cable box for $29.99, having to drive to pick it up & take it back.
Either hop on the train or get run over by it. By 2024 multiple games will be streaming only, conference games, SEC and B1g ten.
It really isn't that damn complicated: if you have cable, if you have satellite,and get SEC network, YOU GET THE GAME FREE. fact, truth. I've got just the plain ESPN app on my TLC big screen. I'm watching tonight, paying 0.00 extra.
He most likely doesn’t have a brand of smart TV that has the ESPN app, and doesn’t have Roku. That’s why he’s heated!!
He most likely doesn’t have a brand of smart TV that has the ESPN app, and doesn’t have Roku. That’s why he’s heated. And if it’s on SEC+ solely instead of ESPN+, he can’t access it through Hulu.
That’s possible … but there can’t be too many people out there anymore that don’t have either a a.) smart tv or b.) a roku or firestick.
If you have a LG tv you're out of luck, my friend has one and can't get the ESPN app on it. He is using the ESPN app on his phone and mirror casting it to his tv.
It is on ESPN+ … access it through your Hulu app on the TV. Log in to your ESPN+ account from there!
This post is golden! We have Hot pockets, saturn, a great REM song, battling the forgotten password demon, wife setting up the cable, whike she is being a vegetarian getting her hair done, we have an obsolete Apple device which truly sucks when it still works, and we have a druncle. It honestly gets no better than this we should relish this post and come back to it often. 🤣
One of my favorite posts ever sir! You have my respect and condolences.
Hack I can understand. My grandpa had to carve his first ESPN+ app out of an old hickory tree that got hit by lightning in the back pasture.
By the time he finished his damn free trial had run out. Had to sell the prized hog to watch Centre vs UK!
Thanks for a MUCH needed laugh this afternoon Hack; I've laughed my ass off over your post my friend, KUDOS.
Yeah, you're right about how much of a pain it was to watch a UK game back in the day! Those 11:30 tape delay replays on channel 27 were a blessing, and a curse, LOL, because the next day I'd be tired as hell but it's KENTUCKY, it was worth it.
Dang right. Would be cool to hear Cawood call the game with Rob Bromley or Denny Trease on the side of the field with a wrap up after the win.
I had forgotten about Denny Trease. Didn't he and his wife leave Lexington after the loss of a child,, or am I thinking of another sports anchor from back then?
I don’t believe it. Considering it took me all of 3 minutes to complete. If you pay for cable, YouTube tv, Hulu live, etc etc then Al the UK games are covered for free. I don’t know why it is so difficult.
Yeah. Calling it SEC Streaming or something would go a long way.
ITT: everyone who just needs to throw $30 at an Amazon fire stick and have some kid set it up. It pretty much works forever after that.
Gotta have at least one firestick at the house. I always take one on vacation with me to hook up in the condo or whatever so I can always get on my YouTubeTV account from anywhere.
I have three. Two in use and the third was a newer model on sale for $11 on prime day. They’re indispensable. I took one with me on a 6 week European vacation and had Netflix, YouTube, hell even local WLEX wherever I went.
