Don't be too prematurely thrilled about that 3:30. TV is tbd.

Two questions remain for me: what exactly is Touchdown for Teachers, Oct. 19 v. Kent? and how does one access games on Facebook if one doesn't not have a Facebook account?

I'm not sure where you're coming from here. We're not proclaiming it to be anything. we're just promoting that as a goal.

A game on Facebook? Huh?

I'm fairly sure that you can't. But, you can set up an account, max your privacy settings, and just use it for game watching.


I watched a couple hoops games on FB last year. Quality was solid, and at least equal to ESPN3/+ in my opinion.


Actually, I would contend it's better - Facebook is a global audience. Buckeye Cable obviously is much more limited.

But ABSOLUTELY NOBODY watches Facebook TV, which I presume is Facebook Watch. I seriously doubt that's available in ANY sports bar in the world.

Saturday afternoon game on the best day of the year and the whining and excuses have already begun.

I noticed that too. No one was whining - we/they were just pointing out the obvious truth. In this day and age fewer and fewer people are willing to devote 10 hours to an athletic event.

The parade is too damn early!

Just shift everything an hour later (they will) and all will be fine, there won't be more tailgating, the game will be great, the band (with alums jamming) will be awesome, and the day will be much more convenient.

Can't wait to be there!

Go Cats!

+110 is that much louder than 11!

Does any sports bar in the world get ESPN3?

Nope.

It's the streaming world. The majority of sports bars are on DirecTV, mainly because that's the only way they'd be able to show NFL games because of the Sunday Ticket package. Until the NFL/DirecTV dissolve their relationship (which seems inevitable) then the monopoly of sports bars being tied to DirecTV will continue.

Until that dissolution, you have sports bars that are tied to whatever is available on the Sports Pack on DirecTV.

And as of now, any streaming option isn't going to be available in a sports bar.

So no BookFace TV or ESPN3 unless you're in the comfort of your home and are able to stream.

Unless you're able to find the white whale ... which is sports bar that A) cares enough to figure out how to stream on their big TVs and then B) one that is smart enough to do so.

If you find that ... please share!

It's hard enough trying to find sports bar where their waitress/bartender doesn't just turn on ESPN and say "we're a sports bar, so we show ESPN" even if they are showing bowling or drone racing.

Active content management ... it's a lost art among sports bars. But that's a totally separate thread that could last for days.

Back to the running topic at hand ... I LOVE the 330pm kick for homecoming or any other game. (Although, I think a night game on a Saturday would be AWESOME)

As a fellow Cbus'r up in Dublin ... it's a struggle getting to Athens in time for a 2pm kickoff especially if you want to get into TailGreat park for Homecoming. As OUCountry pointed out ... leaving at 530am isn't fun.

I admittedly shelled out the $400 for the reserved spot in TailGreat this year, so that will make it a little better.

But I like having some extra time to tailgate. Grill out breakfast AND lunch! A few more cold ones before wandering into Peden. What's not to love!

Because I love thread drift....

This is something that is an art, while also not being all that complicated. The number of sports bars in the Columbus area that are able to pull it off is very, very small in number. And it DRIVES ME CRAZY when I go somewhere and they have 90% of their screens on the same game despite the fact that there are 15 sporting events on at the time. It's an incredible waste of screens and monthly DirecTV costs.