Uconn game vs. NFL playoffs

[Deadrody]

The technology has existed for DECADES allowing you to watch both.

 

[ctchamps]

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

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More like I can still remember watching the 99 championship on my 19 inch tv. I can be shytefaced (2014) and still get more out of watching on my 50 inch screen vs. sober on that 19 inch.

 

[HuskyHawk]

The technology has existed for DECADES allowing you to watch both.

It is interesting to me that picture in picture was the next big thing. They everyone got it and said "nah, this blows". TVs are cheap. Might as well make your room look like a Vegas Sportsbook.

 

[Scoe]

If it’s a Giants playoff game then I’m watching that a non Giants playoff game then UConn.

The games really don’t conflict, average UConn game is what 2 hrs vs an NFL game is 3 hrs, I don’t need to watch 6-12 hrs of football.

Typically on championship weekend and Super Bowl week our games are usually on a Saturday or a noon start time on Sunday.

 

[storrsroars]

Noob.

I've got 13 screens available, but I'm still not likely to pay attention to more than two. I'd make a lousy Mormon or Muslim.

 

[bigknight3]

DVR both. Watch football first cause there won't be score updates on the bottom line of the UConn game.

Watch UConn second. Any bottom line NFL updates you'll already know.

Ignore text and phone notifications...

(Standard sports viewing protocol)

 

[gsmooth]

I will watch both games. I would have UConn on the big screen TV and have the NFL playoffs on the IPad or my laptop.

 

[nashusky109]

I Love UConn Basketball. Outside of the Yankees, the Huskies are the only one of my rooting interests that have ever won anything in my lifetime. Best believe if theres a Jets playoff game vs a regular season UConn game I'm choosing the Jets 9/10 times.

With that being said... I'd 100% have them both on

 

[UCLJ0211]

Good thing they created DVR like 20 years ago!

 

[XLCenterFan]

How is this even a question? If you answer NFL, leave the BY and turn your UConn card in. Losers.

 

[navery12]

How is this even a question? If you answer NFL, leave the BY and turn your UConn card in. Losers.

Do I have to turn in my Giants fan card if I answered UConn? Never realized you could only be a fan of 1 team

 

[August_West]

This poll says it all.

You need a 3rd option " "are you a Pats fan" ?

Because I promise you that shifts everything.

They always go with the frontrunner.

right now UConn>Pats so yeah hop on board.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

This poll says it all.

You need a 3rd option " "are you a Pats fan" ?

Because I promise you that shifts everything.

They always go with the frontrunner.

right now UConn> than Pats so yeah hop on board.

I was going to say I stopped bothering to record Pats games a few weeks ago - didn't even tune into the Arizona game - so if they somehow sneak in with the wild card it's not a particularly difficult choice for me: watch the best UConn team of the last decade or watch the most mediocre team in the history of the NFL whose offensive playcalling (by a defensive coordinator) is the equivalent of watching paint dry. If the Pats don't win another Super Bowl for the rest of my life I'm fine with it. If they make the playoffs this year they are certain to get smoked.

 

[XLCenterFan]

Do I have to turn in my Giants fan card if I answered UConn? Never realized you could only be a fan of 1 team

It’s UConn first. Always.

 

[ucp990411]

I have not watched an NFL game including super bowls in at least 15 years. Have not missed a UConn basketball game in at least 30 years.

 

[August_West]

I was going to say I stopped bothering to record Pats games a few weeks ago - didn't even tune into the Arizona game - so if they somehow sneak in with the wild card it's not a particularly difficult choice for me: watch the best UConn team of the last decade or watch the most mediocre team in the history of the NFL whose offensive playcalling (by a defensive coordinator) is the equivalent of watching paint dry. If the Pats don't win another Super Bowl for the rest of my life I'm fine with it. If they make the playoffs this year they are certain to get smoked.

I know you're a Pats fan, and I actually appreciate the honesty, you guys had a great run, one that I can never even fathom (as a Jets fan). Kudos. Seriously. It had to be fun, and I can relate, I've had plenty of fun as Husky and Sox fan for 20 plus years. But holy hell the crossover right now, I see it at work and I see at stores and I see it everywhere in CT right now from the Pats being an afterthought and now everyone breaking out Husky gear ( and forget the ticket requests from people who I couldn't pay to sit in seats 3 years ago or even give away on BY last year ) .

The Northeast is a special place, and I love living here, was born here and will die here at this point , but It doesnt mean I can't laugh at it after living coast to coast in the middle 3rd of my life. It's legit funny.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

How is this even a question? If you answer NFL, leave the BY and turn your UConn card in. Losers.

Hardo.

 

[HeGotGame]

I know you're a Pats fan, and I actually appreciate the honesty, you guys had a great run, one that I can never even fathom (as a Jets fan). Kudos. Seriously. It had to be fun, and I can relate, I've had plenty of fun as Husky and Sox fan for 20 plus years. But holy hell the crossover right now, I see it at work and I see at stores and I see it everywhere in CT right now from the Pats being an afterthought and now everyone breaking out Husky gear ( and forget the ticket requests from people who I couldn't pay to sit in seats 3 years ago or even give away on BY last year ) .

The Northeast is a special place, and I love living here, was born here and will die here at this point , but It doesnt mean I can't laugh at it after living coast to coast in the middle 3rd of my life. It's legit funny.

These people are not Pats fans. They are a fans of winning. It just happens to be that the majority of the people who "root" for that franchise fall into the latter.

 

[XLCenterFan]

I have not watched an NFL game including super bowls in at least 15 years. Have not missed a UConn basketball game in at least 30 years.

Gangster.

 

[Edward Sargent]

My football team is the Giants so I don't have to make Sophie's Choice!

 

[ctchamps]

I know you're a Pats fan, and I actually appreciate the honesty, you guys had a great run, one that I can never even fathom (as a Jets fan). Kudos. Seriously. It had to be fun, and I can relate, I've had plenty of fun as Husky and Sox fan for 20 plus years. But holy hell the crossover right now, I see it at work and I see at stores and I see it everywhere in CT right now from the Pats being an afterthought and now everyone breaking out Husky gear ( and forget the ticket requests from people who I couldn't pay to sit in seats 3 years ago or even give away on BY last year ) .

The Northeast is a special place, and I love living here, was born here and will die here at this point , but It doesnt mean I can't laugh at it after living coast to coast in the middle 3rd of my life. It's legit funny.

My intro into football was when I got a job as an usher at Yale Bowl in 1968. The combination of Brian Dowling and Calvin Hill was incredible to watch. There was one game a Dartmouth safety tried to tackle Hill but couldn't. Hill carried him for thirty yards into the end zone and still no other player from Dartmouth could catch up to him. I was hooked.

When Calvin was selected by the Cowboys in 69 that became the team I rooted for. When the Cowboys became Americas team (79) I gagged and not having the Hill connection to that team any longer turned to the Pats. So much hope in 86 only to have the Bears trounce them in Super Bowl XX. Probably another reason I'll root for guerrillas over bears.

My kid was a UConn fan and a Whalers fan like his dad but in pro sports he chose Philadelphia. As long as it wasn't the Sox or Pats that the Phillies or Eagles were playing I would root for his teams hoping they could give him the feeling I had over the past 25 years.

In 2017 I was rooting for the Eagles and the Pats but dreaded the possibility they would play in the Super Bowl against one another. Of course we know what happened. The desire to have my son be happy changed my loyalty to a team I had rooted for almost 40 years. It was the weirdest transition especially after the emotional LI Super Bowl but I never wavered in wanting the Eagles to win that game. Have been a fan of theirs since. And the Phillies.

So naturally I voted among the minority in the above poll. But if it was a postseason UConn game going against a post season Eagles game definitely the Huskies. Thank goodness that can't happen.

Of course if the kid became a fan of any other college basketball team other than UConn he was told he would be disowned. Love has limits.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

I know you're a Pats fan, and I actually appreciate the honesty, you guys had a great run, one that I can never even fathom (as a Jets fan). Kudos. Seriously. It had to be fun, and I can relate, I've had plenty of fun as Husky and Sox fan for 20 plus years. But holy hell the crossover right now, I see it at work and I see at stores and I see it everywhere in CT right now from the Pats being an afterthought and now everyone breaking out Husky gear ( and forget the ticket requests from people who I couldn't pay to sit in seats 3 years ago or even give away on BY last year ) .

The Northeast is a special place, and I love living here, was born here and will die here at this point , but It doesnt mean I can't laugh at it after living coast to coast in the middle 3rd of my life. It's legit funny.

In fairness, even in their heyday if by some quirk of scheduling a Pats Super Bowl conflicted with a high level UConn game I'd always choose UConn. Way more emotional attachment.

 

[August_West]

These people are not Pats fans. They are a fans of winning. It just happens to be that the majority of the people who "root" for that franchise fall into the latter.

Your point is well taken. I'd imagine that's true.

 

[August_West]

In fairness, even in their heyday if by some quirk of scheduling a Pats Super Bowl conflicted with a high level UConn game I'd always choose UConn. Way more emotional attachment.

I believe you. I would too even if Namath was QB'ing.

 

[superjohn]

I would watch a UConn practice over a NY Giants playoff game.