Sports Weekend...Not

I was not pleased with Philadelphia area TV last week. First, lame Comcast sports lost its signal during a thunderstorm just in time for the 7th-9th innings of Oriole Danny Cabrera's near no-hitter against the Yankees. ESPN2 broadcast the game nationally, but it was blacked out in our area because the game broadcast on our local Comcast station. No relief there. But the most frustrating part was no station broke into coverage to show the 9th inning; not ESPN, ESPN2 or Comcast Philly (which was showing a blooper reel during a Phillies rain delay). So I had to watch the ticker at the bottom of ESPN News to see whether Cabrera accomplished the feat. The text told me he didn't.

To add insult to injury, later in the weekend I found out that the Philadelphia area was getting the New England/Cincinnati NFL game on Sunday afternoon, rather than the Redskins game. As you know, we're much closer to New England and Ohio than we are to DC and nobody up here in the shadow of Philadelphia cares about the NFC.

I forgot about all of this when, in bonus coverage after the Pats/Bengals game ended, I was able to see a total of three Redskins plays, the final one resulting in a long, overtime completion for a game winning touchdown from Mark Brunell to Santana Moss. Victory was sweet.

Now let's never let this happen again.