CBS sucks

I HATE CBS. Why, you might ask? Well, there is this whole football watching thing for me, to say nothing of the smathering of rediculously inane shows they play otherwise. See, in my house, we BLEED black and gold. The Steelers are our religion. So, we do what we have to in order to see them play, good or bad, playing well or crappy, making us cheer or cringe. Most weeks in central Illinois this involves going down to a place like Jillian's and catching the game via Sunday NFL Ticket (which we can't get because we don't have dish). I'm pleased to spend three hours watching "my boys" on the big screens, eating nachos and sipping a few cold ones to pass a Sunday afternoon.

Now, every once and awhile we are lucky enough to get the Bears on one channel so we get a shot at a game we want to see on the other (Fox also plays football games on Sunday afternoons). Twice this season we have been blessed to have CBS pick the Steelers game as the alternative to the Bears on Fox Sports. AWESOME. Except....

At a point in BOTH games, CBS decided that the Steelers game wasn't worth watching any longer (because we were up greatly in both of them) at at the beginning of the fourth quarter they SWITCHED THE EFFING FEED TO ANOTHER GAME. Now, I know that for some people watching, they could care less what other game is on if the Bears are playing on Fox but you know what? People watching the scheduled and advertised game on CBS on Sundays usually make a conscious decision to stay home and watch that out of town team play. We decide that maybe we don't want to sit in a bar and spend money to see our favorite team plays for TWO OUT OF THE SIXTEEN WEEKS of football and opt to stay home and watch the game on TV, a rarity in itself. So as you can imagine, especially when your team hasn't exactly been playing well this season and you're FINALLY getting the chance to see them kick some butt, the sudden unannounced switch to another random game nearly means my television is destroyed.

If it weren't for football on Sundays, CBS would never be on in my home. Ever. And after this football season is over, regardless of where we end up in the country next year, it will NEVER be on in my home again. I even sent a nastygram after the first incident to the CBS "tell us what you think" email address. I didn't even get a canned "thanks for your input" response.

Screw CBS. This is one person who is going to go out of their way to never watch their stupid channel again. I don't care if I have to get dish and Sunday Ticket, or go spend too much money for crap food in a bar to see the games. I will get through the playoffs and Super Bowl and then CBS is never getting my patronage again.

Don't fuck with my football. Period.