NFL Coverage In Japan

[IkemenTommy]

Why is it that the football coverage on TV blows here? And I'm talking football as in the American one and not the pansy european one where they kick the silly round ball all day. Surely, football isn't as popular as Yankees Matsui or Ichiro but they have XFL league here and there should be enough demand to be able to show live coverage on BS1. It's almost the end of the season and it will be time for the playoffs but I am so disappointed to see how they only show taped reruns on GAora like a week later as shown in this TV schedule. For the same matter, there won't be any college bowl games either.

Do people on the military bases have access to other feeds that we regular citydwelling FGs can't get or something?

[oyajikun]

Yeah American Forces Network get feeds to most of the games. You can also subscribe to the AFN SAT service if you live off base.

[emperor]

...I'm talking football as in the American one and not the pansy european one where they kick the silly round ball all day...

your dissin European sports for being pansy when NFL players are covered head to toe in padding and dont have to run for more than a couple of minutes at a time?
its a wonder NFL players dont just drive to the other end to score a touchdown.. theyd be warm and safe inside their SUVs.. maybe in another few years players will be able to use tanks and giant robots
why dontcha watch a REAL sport like rugby

[canman]

Unfortunatley the NFL coverage here is not very good. BS will broadcast a game tonight at 12:00am, but that is a little too late for me to say up until 3:00am watching it. Tomorrow at 8:00am Sportscenter will show all the highlights of all the other games I have missed. So if I tape the game and then watch the highlights there is no suspence and more. Luckily they will show Monday night football tomorrow Tuesday evening at 7:00 pm so that is not too bad. Even the Misawa base channel which I can watch(but its awful snowy and only black and white) they show the MOnday night game Tuesday at 7:00pm. Oyajikun, you may be able to subscribe to the AFN satelite service, but the ordinary Joe Blow can't. I was asking around about it. You must either be an active duty memeber or retired from the services. I would die to get one of those satelites and decoders.

[Greener]

Don't they show Monday Night Football in the mornings on Tuesdays?

I'm still pissed that they didn't televise the Grey Cup. (Canada's Super Bowl.)

[FG Lurker]

Football has about as big a following here as Hockey... Not quite zero, but certainly close.

[canman]

I wish that BS would pick up some NHL action, but that would be wishing for too much. There is a fair amount of football on tv, its just that it is all recorded and since you alredy know the score it takes the fun out of watching the game. But almost each and every week BS broadcasts at least 4 games. I think there is a diehard compnent, just like anything else. There is also that show with Chris Peplar(sp) and now NFL digest, so maybe somebody is trying hard to get it more exposure. As for the CFL we all know that it is the best football in the world, but nobody will say it.

[kamome]

You're kind of SOL if you want to see live NFL games in Japan and you're not military. Some of the sports bars in the big cities might show an NFL replay game if you're lucky. The Super Bowl is definitely on in Roppongi, but otherwise you have to rely on what you can get through the internet.

[IkemenTommy]

I wish that BS would pick up some NHL action, but that would be wishing for too much. There is a fair amount of football on tv, its just that it is all recorded and since you alredy know the score it takes the fun out of watching the game. But almost each and every week BS broadcasts at least 4 games. I think there is a diehard compnent, just like anything else. There is also that show with Chris Peplar(sp) and now NFL digest, so maybe somebody is trying hard to get it more exposure. As for the CFL we all know that it is the best football in the world, but nobody will say it.

My point exactly. It's like watching last week's taped news. It's old and the scores are already available. There is no point in cheering for the team when the results are already there. There are die-hard fans out there that insist on watching taped games but I don't have the patience. I just see the scores and highlights.

There's got to be some way-- legal or not -- to obtain those military dishes. Only if I had some kind of hook-up with the base..

CFL.. where they play on a field 300 yards long and 10 yards wide.

[kamome]

There is no point in cheering for the team when the results are already there.

Speaking of which, I'm going home soon to watch Indy play Pittsburgh on Monday night football. Sometimes it's great being home.

[IkemenTommy]

There is no point in cheering for the team when the results are already there.

Speaking of which, I'm going home soon to watch Indy play Pittsburgh on Monday night football. Sometimes it's great being home.

More like Tuesday night football.

Do they still have those boring unenthusiastic J4P football commentators or are they in English

[IkemenTommy]

Pittsburg at Indianapolis. It should be a good game. My bet is that Pittsburg will win it in a close one.

[canman]

Tommy, the game is indoors in Indy at the RCA dome. Indy never loses there, and Big Ben is till hurting, as are the Bus(Bettis) and Heinz Ward. No way Indy big. That game will be on tv tonight starting at 7:00. So I have a rule don't check out ESPN or any other site that has scores and then I can enjoy the game tonight.
By the way I sent a letter to Sprots I-ESPN asking them to try and show more live sports from the US, even if its at 3:00 in the morning, at least I can tape it and watch it the next day.
I willbe home this year for Christmas and New Years and am so looking forward to seeing a whole lot of bowl games live.

[kamome]

Indy crushed Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is a good team, but even they couldn't do anything against what looks like a flawless football team. Man, the Colts are on fire! I think the only thing that will stop them is an injury to Manning or Edge, or a fluke error by the officials, or maybe some terrible weather.

[IkemenTommy]

what looks like a flawless football team...

haha fuckers So much for the perfect season

[kamome]

what looks like a flawless football team...

haha fuckers So much for the perfect season

Yeah, I would have loved it if Indy went undefeated. But SD is a very good team and deserves to be in the playoffs.

[IkemenTommy]

SD is my adopted hometown but the team sucked hard for too long. Chargers lost a lot of loyal fans the last time they made it to the Super Bowl just to get cremated by the 49ers. If you've ever been to any of the pre-game tailgate parties at the stadium parking lot, you'll always see MORE of the opposing teams' fans.

Don't ever go to a vs. Oakland game if you don't want to come back unharmed. That's when they have fights and random brawls.

[kamome]

Meanwhile it's AK vs. Kamome (Assassins vs. Kanto -|Krush|-) in the championship game of the FG Bowl!*


*FG Bowl - the annual fantasy football league on Yahoo! managed by yours truly.

[IkemenTommy]

Meanwhile it's AK vs. Kamome (Assassins vs. Kanto -|Krush|-) in the championship game of the FG Bowl!*


*FG Bowl - the annual fantasy football league on Yahoo! managed by yours truly.

That site is cock-blocked by the nazi administrators at work..

[IkemenTommy]

Holy shit, the Colts and the Patriots getting beat.
What is going on here?

[kamome]

Yeah, a truly disppointing playoffs. Not that the Steelers-Colts game wasn't one of the more exciting games I've ever seen. That Bettis fumble was unbelievable. It could have been run back all the way had Ben Roethlisberger, of all people, not been there to trip him up at the last second. Bottom line is that the Steelers' pass rush kept Peyton off balance the entire game, just like New England has done in the past few seasons.

A better playoff was in the FG Bowl, where yours truly, the Kanto |-Krush|- went all the way from 7th see din the playoffs to CHAMPION of the league! AK's team, Assassins, was awesome all year long and equally deserved to win it all.

[AssKissinger]

I think the playoffs have been exciting. The NFL has done a great job creating balance in the league. AFAIK, there's never been an all wildcard Superbowl but it just might happen this year.

[canman]

I know that in the playoffs the defences are better and they nerves and emotions run higher, but this guy just can't seem to win on the big stage. I thought for sure when they went into Foxborough and beat the Patriots maybe just maybe they got that monkey off their back. But watching the game I really felt that Manning just wasn't sharp. He overthrew and underthrew a lot of receivers, which was the downfall of the team. Its too bad really as I really like watching the Colts, they remind me a lot of the Rams when they had all their superstars. Only the Rams were able to put it together once, and the Colts can't. Also how many trips is this to the playoffs for Tony Dungy without a win. This guy is snake bitten.

[kamome]

I know that in the playoffs the defences are better and they nerves and emotions run higher, but this guy just can't seem to win on the big stage. I thought for sure when they went into Foxborough and beat the Patriots maybe just maybe they got that monkey off their back. But watching the game I really felt that Manning just wasn't sharp. He overthrew and underthrew a lot of receivers, which was the downfall of the team. Its too bad really as I really like watching the Colts, they remind me a lot of the Rams when they had all their superstars. Only the Rams were able to put it together once, and the Colts can't. Also how many trips is this to the playoffs for Tony Dungy without a win. This guy is snake bitten.

I don't think it was Manning, it was the Steelers' pass rush outplaying the Colt's offensive line and hurrying Manning into bad throws. No one could pick up the Steeler's blitz. Even Manning said that he felt the line failed in pass protection. Manning's a pocket passer, and once you flush him out of there, he's not going to be as effective.

[IkemenTommy]

For the past couple of years, the playoff games have been more exciting than the finale Super Bowl. This last weekend was no exception.

Steelers - Seahawks @ the Super Bowl would be a sick match-up.
I am definitely taking the Monday off (as always) to watch the game.

[IkemenTommy]

It's the fourth quarter, Pittsburg 24 - Broncos 10.. it looks like the Steelers are going to Super Bowl afterall. It's nice that they beat all the odds to make it this far.

[American Oyaji]

I'm a native of Pittsburgh, so to see them go to the Super Bowl, I am chuffed like a big dog.

I don't know if you guys know or not, but Tony Dungy's son committed suicide maybe 3 or 4 weeks ago. Also, Indy had a buy week so they were not into the game emotionally.

Pittsburgh just outplayed the Broncos today.

[IkemenTommy]

Did anyone get a chance to watch the game?
The way they played today, they could win the Super Bowl with no problem.
I am pretty excited that the team that made it is not New England or Denver like it has been for the past few years.

Shit.. too bad I can't watch the Seattle game. I am at work so I can't really check the scores, even though I have the time and resource to read this forum.

And now.. this is my 1000th post to officially join the ranks of Yokozuna. It was a long ride.

[AssKissinger]

I'm a native of Pittsburgh, so to see them go to the Super Bowl, I am chuffed like a big dog.



Pittsburgh just outplayed the Broncos today.

Congrats AO. It doesn't happen often (one's hometeam going all the way) but Pittsburgh has a had a lot more of winning in history than most. When you were a kid did you ever get to go see any of the games when they had Franco Harris and Lynn Swan and all those guys?

[Greji]

Congrats AO. It doesn't happen often (one's hometeam going all the way) but Pittsburgh has a had a lot more of winning in history than most. When you were a kid did you ever get to go see any of the games when they had Franco Harris and Lynn Swan and all those guys?

Agreed! Congrats, but AK you really know how to hurt a guy with the "when you were a kid" stuff! The year when Franco Harris was named the number one draft pick, I moved from Musashino to Fuchu and was therefore unable to see any of the games of the Big Green Machine which BTW was an awesome team!