Earlier this week, USA TODAY Sports’ Erik Brady wrote about his frustration about paying for DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket and not being able to record the Bills’ game this week. We followed up with him to see how the Yahoo!-streaming experiment compared to his expectations.
Sometimes my wife or daughter will ask why I am watching the closing minutes of yet another blowout loss by the Buffalo Bills. My standard response: “For archival purposes.” When the Bills play, I watch — simple as that.
That’s why I’m a longtime subscriber to DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket. I never have to miss a game. Even when I can’t watch live, I can record it to watch later.
That brings us to Sunday’s Bills-Jags game in London, available only streaming live on Yahoo. I went to my son’s house, where he understands the alchemy of transporting images from computer screen to TV screen. Early on, the game stuttered and buffered, performing about as well as Bills’ QB EJ Manuel. My son fiddled with an app. That cured the hiccups, but now the picture was blurry. We watched that way for the rest of the half.
Then my son got the game on my cell phone so I could watch the rest from the finish of the Marine Corps Marathon, where my niece was running. Before the end of the third quarter, the picture disappeared. I tried, and failed, to retrieve it. I followed the rest on Twitter — the Bills’ dramatic comeback, the Jaguars’ winning drive.
The archive has a hole in it, like the Bills’ game plan. And my DirecTV contract.
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