Photo credit: Jim McIsaac | David Baas #64 of the New York Giants in action against the New York Jets. (Aug. 29, 2011)
“What about ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ huh? What about ‘Mad Men?’ ” you’re probably wondering. “You love Michael Mann—you’re going to miss ‘Luck’?” OK, so I might not be experiencing some of the most golden nuggets of television on the same day as millions of others. But you know what? That’s the way I’ve been doing things for a long time. “The Wire.” “Battlestar Galactica.” “Friday Night Lights.” That suite of shows everyone said I just had to watch? I didn’t get to them until much later. And, for the most part, I’ve been fine with that. I’ve survived.
WILD-CARD STREAMING The National Football League is breaking ground by live-streaming Saturday’s wild-card playoff doubleheader — Bengals-Texans at 4:30 p.m., Lions-Saints at 8 p.m. — both online and via NFL Mobile (on Verizon Wireless). The league also plans to stream this year’s Super Bowl and Pro Bowl. Watch at nfl.com and nbcsports.com; wireless info at verizonwireless.com/nfl.
3. PLUG INTO THE WORLD WIDE WEB
This will go easier if we can just admit it: We’re not right for each other anymore. I’m cutting the cord, getting rid of that white coaxial cable of yours and that clunky, dusty set-top box it’s connected to. This antenna, laptop and Roku box are moving into the living room with me because, well, they’re cheaper and slicker than you are—inside and out.
So don’t think you can frame the Internet as this unreliable, unpolished source for premium content and dangle professional sports and Emmy fodder in front of my nose to reel me in again. I can get everything that counts over the Internet and on my living-room TV.
