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Uconn game vs. NFL playoffs

Which game do you watch?

  • Regular season, in conference 2022 Uconn game

    Votes: 159 86.9%
  • NFL Playoff game

    Votes: 24 13.1%

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You notice that a normal, in conference, Uconn Men's game is on at the exact same time as an NFL playoff game. Even if it's your football team who is playing. (I'm aware that due to technology, we can have both on at the same time, but that's not the point here). Which do you watch?
 

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Already had this dilemma with a conflict between my NFL team and the women's bb team.
Been going back and forth with taping of each game fast forwarding between football plays or catching up on each game during commercials. I'm not one of those individuals who multi tasks well. But I managed and actually it reduces the tension watching the struggling team if the other one is playing well. So it's been interesting.

This past weekend the problem was resolved for me when my NFL team blew out it's opponent and the network left the game to broadcast a closer game.

A playoff game vs. a regular season bb game - even though the men's bb team is the #1 team I root for I would definitely be watching the playoff game over a regular season game and only going to the taped bb game during commercials.
 
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In practice I'll have both going at the same time, as there are multiple screens at my disposal, but if I had only one, I'd just flip back and forth situationally and hope both games didn't come down to crunch time at the exact same moment, which shouldn't happen given the starting times. I tend to make decisions based on my sense of the amount of win probability leverage that's in play, as it guides my instinct as to what's more important.

If I absolutely had to choose, I'd pick the NFL playoff game if I cared a lot about the outcome, and if not (say, Vikings-Commanders or Titans-Ravens, something like that), the UConn game. It's only a regular season game after all, and it's pretty clear barring multiple season-ending injuries (knock on every piece of wood furniture in my apartment), the Huskies are NCAA tournament-bound. But I'd be annoyed that I even had to make the choice. We do have tickets to the Butler game in January, and if the Bills wind up playing in the divisional round at the same time (which is definitely possible), I'm gonna be pretty damn frustrated with that situation.
 

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Dear Diary,

Today, on the Boneyard, I learned that there are people who do not have two screens and that they are forced to choose just one sporting event at a time! How do they even do March Madness?!

Regards,

Fishy
 

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Surprisingly, the St John’s game on 1/15 is almost sold out.

12pm tip off in Hartford and the NFL has 3 Wild Card games that same day.
 

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I'm keeping track of the scores of all games I may be interested in and switching accordingly, with the UConn game going to PiP as needed.
 

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You notice that a normal, in conference, Uconn Men's game is on at the exact same time as an NFL playoff game. Even if it's your football team who is playing. (I'm aware that due to technology, we can have both on at the same time, but that's not the point here). Which do you watch?
But technology solves the dilemma, so there is no issue.

My answer is I record both and watch neither live. I'm doing chores through the first half so that that my sports viewing experience will go largely uninterrupted. After about an hour (roughly at the start of the second half, if it were live), I start the recording for the basketball game, fast forwarding through TV TOs, halftime and other stoppages in play. If I timed it right, I end up catching up to live play by the final buzzer. After the basketball game, I start the recording of the football game, with the same film management strategy.
 
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Surprisingly, the St John’s game on 1/15 is almost sold out.

12pm tip off in Hartford and the NFL has 3 Wild Card games that same day.
Yeah that’s gonna be a great day for me heading to the casino for a boys overnight that day and traditionally watch all the wildcard games obviously —but we’re all Uconn fans so the sports bar will have both on - that’ll be a fun day -NFL playoff triple header and UConn- Early game could be a crappy playoff blowout anyways and my Green Bay squad is done so easy choice for me lol. UCONN
 
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Hypothetically, if a regular season UConn basketball game and a Giants playoff game is on at the same time, I'd record the UConn game, watch the Giants game live, start the UConn record during halftime and then finish the UConn game later that day.

I'm a single-minded person when I watch games I'm really into: try to avoid the computer/phone during UConn games or Giants games.
 
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No surprise the XL will be full.
If everything falls right , UConn rolls the johnnies by 20 , yer out of Hartford by 2:15pm , home by 3 o’clock - and catch the back end of the early playoff game. That’s how my crazy sports mind thinks. Lol.
 

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Hypothetically, if a regular season UConn basketball game and a Giants playoff game is on at the same time, I'd record the UConn game, watch the Giants game live, start the UConn record during halftime and then finish the UConn game later that day.

I'm a single-minded person when I watch games I'm really into: try to avoid the computer/phone during UConn games or Giants games.

This is the only answer.

If you're going to watch a UConn Butler regular season game over a your "favorite" NFL teams playoff game, you may just not really be an NFL fan.
 

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If it's my NFL Team, that goes on the big screen. UConn on the iPad or second TV in my basement. If it's not my NFL team, reverse that.
 
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Dear Diary,

Today, on the Boneyard, I learned that there are people who do not have two screens and that they are forced to choose just one sporting event at a time! How do they even do March Madness?!

Regards,

Fishy
We find a solution. Some of us aren't as young as you and have to protect our necks:

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