oragator said:
They set the USF Cincy game in a three hour window - show me the last college football game that finished in under three hours without one of the service academies being involved?
.And the fact that they threw it behind a paywall to boot is even more insulting.
The away matches are bid for just like the home matches, ESPN just didn't care enough to bid enough for the away matches.oh no said:Maybe because Disney/ABC/ESPN has the home matches and has the opportunity to promote and showcase the US national team of the world's biggest sport, and they don't. ... meanwhile, the concacaf away matches are not controlled by American media?PatAg said:The question for me, then, is why ESPN put USA-Mexico on ESPN2, and why they’d disrespect the USMNT so much that virtually no pregame appeared on ESPN2. That’s a disgrace, far more so than anything Memo Ochoa said. https://t.co/WDNzQydI9E
— Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl) November 16, 2021
Grant has become such a beating. I don't disagree with him, I think these networks are screwing up by not committing to putting these games out on channels that EVERYONE gets.
It's just interesting that he works for CBS Sports, and the game tonight is on Paramount +...but he is complaining about ESPN putting the game on ESPN 2.
The TV Azteca reporters starting to transform into Jack Nicholson’s character in final scene of Shining pic.twitter.com/OS5YxW8sfg
— Maximiliano Bretos (@MaxBretosSports) November 16, 2021
oh no said:
I guess because I have not cut the chord and still have a Comcast/Xfinity sub that includes NBC and CBS, I automatically get access to Peacock and Paramount+, so I've not had an issue with English Premier League, Champions League, and all of these Concacaf matches.
I do not pay extra for ESPN+, and I do get angry when I see a hotdog eating contest, a cornhole tournament, bass fishing, or a spelling bee on one of the 5 or so ESPN channels I pay for, yet can't watch any of the Spanish, German, or Italian soccer. The biggest most popular sport in the world and they won't promote it or help grow it in the USA - they want the extra revenue so soccer fans need to pay even more for all of that content.
..back to the post about Grant Wahl, CBS guy who is complaining about ESPN broadcast of home matches while his own company has all the concacaf matches "behind a paywall", I guess I was under the impression that all these away matches, and all of the matches in the octagonal that do not involve USA, were being broadcast in local countries by some local network, and CBS/Paramount had made some subcontract deals to use their streams in the US. CBS might not be alllowed to put any of those nonUSMNT matches or USMNT away matches on their big CBS network or CBS sports. ???? i could be way off here.
I don't know why else I have it.. HBOmax, Paramount+, Peacock, Amazon, Hulu, Netflix --- they all just pop up when I search or talk to my xfinity remote.. .and the only extras I pay for on xfinity are HBO and Shotime. and i'm watching this match on my computer at work - logged into paramount+ with my xfiniti id and pw.ChipFTAC01 said:oh no said:
I guess because I have not cut the chord and still have a Comcast/Xfinity sub that includes NBC and CBS, I automatically get access to Peacock and Paramount+, so I've not had an issue with English Premier League, Champions League, and all of these Concacaf matches.
I do not pay extra for ESPN+, and I do get angry when I see a hotdog eating contest, a cornhole tournament, bass fishing, or a spelling bee on one of the 5 or so ESPN channels I pay for, yet can't watch any of the Spanish, German, or Italian soccer. The biggest most popular sport in the world and they won't promote it or help grow it in the USA - they want the extra revenue so soccer fans need to pay even more for all of that content.
..back to the post about Grant Wahl, CBS guy who is complaining about ESPN broadcast of home matches while his own company has all the concacaf matches "behind a paywall", I guess I was under the impression that all these away matches, and all of the matches in the octagonal that do not involve USA, were being broadcast in local countries by some local network, and CBS/Paramount had made some subcontract deals to use their streams in the US. CBS might not be alllowed to put any of those nonUSMNT matches or USMNT away matches on their big CBS network or CBS sports. ???? i could be way off here.
Wait, you get paramount+ if you have a paid cable sub with CBS?
So how are you watching?jeffk said:
I had a free couple of months of P+ when we started our Xfinity service. Of course it's long gone now and I hate their service, so I'm not buying it again.
The.... storm(?) before the storm?
— Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) November 16, 2021
Soon this field of white will become a Sea of #CanadaRED#CANMNT #WCQ #ForCanada #Iceteca pic.twitter.com/IxSt1C9qsV
me toodeadbq03 said:
I sadly just give CBS my money because I like watching Champions League too much.
Boy.. this is a fast goal. Right off the kickoff for El Salvador pic.twitter.com/VoiCJKYu9f
— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) November 17, 2021
Maybe, but they will be top of the table after tonight.gougler08 said:
Canada may very well win the group
Where is the ref and officials from? I know in the USA match he was CostaRican...DeangeloVickers said:
This ref is concacafing
aggiephoenix02 said:Where is the ref and officials from? I know in the USA match he was CostaRican...DeangeloVickers said:
This ref is concacafing
