Memo to NBC

by Brad Lee on Feb 18, 2007 10:22 PM CST

By Brad Lee

To: NBC dumbass programming people
From: St. Louis hockey fans
Re: Your lame ass decision Sunday

Your network had one of the premiere matchups in the NHL Sunday afternoon with the Pittsburgh Penguins playing the Washington Capitals on "national" TV. There were advertisements about the game on your network and NHL.com. There was some legit hype gathering about this game, well as much hype as a league that has less than 500,000 people credited with watching its All-Star game last month. But with these types of programming decisions, it's no wonder people don't watch your product. You see, St. Louis got shut out of this "national" game and was instead treated to the Chicago Blackhawks at New York Rangers. Why?

I know you people think Missouri and Illinois are flyover country, and that's fine for people with a bi-coastal schedule (probably matching your possibly bi lifestyle -- not that there's anything wrong with that). While the two states border each other, St. Louis and Chicago are pretty far apart, geographically (300 miles) and with tastes in sports. Ask anyone who roots for a competitive baseball team like the Cardinals and the lifelong losers who willingly subject themselves to the perpetually dreadful Chicago Cubs. St. Louisians simply don't understand, we must be totally different. Also, if you wear a Chicago Bears fleece to even a St. Louis Blues hockey game you're bound to get five to 10 smartass comments directed your way. So it makes absolutley no sense to force us to watch a shitty Central Division team that we're already sick of because the NHL forces our team to play them eight Goddamn times a year and only allows Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin to travel to St. Louis once every three years.

Please refer to the above map and realize that St. Louis, down in the lower left hand corner across the river from East St. Louis, is not in fact a Chicagoland suburb. Oh, and go fuck yourselves.

Yours in continuing to screw up a garage league,
Brad Lee

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As Woody Allen once said, bisexuality doubles my chances of getting a date on Friday night.

Watching Blackhawks games on TV, though, gives you no chance. If dashing young Sidney had been on TV, who knows what might have happened?

Err, this sex and hockey metaphor isn’t going quite the way I hoped it would. Fuck it. Wake me when it’s April and the Mets are in town.

by WH on Feb 19, 2007 10:32 AM CST reply actions

The worst part of it is I don’t know many people in the Metro East who aren’t huge Blues fans. Me, my gal, my brother, dad, all my cousins and uncles, my ex, etc., etc. You can’t drive 10 feet in Collinsville or Belleville without seeing a personalized Blues license plate, plate cover or window sticker.

But in defense of the Blackhawks, I was in Chicago in early December and took in a game at the United Center. Can’t beat $10 tickets and me and my girl had the place practicly to ourselves. We sat next to some Oiler fans and routed against the ’hawks.

by Pagan on Feb 20, 2007 6:47 PM CST reply actions

Nice move. I once cheered on the Hartford Whalers at Chicago Stadium. Back in the days when the franchise wasn’t a total disgrace, behavior like that would have been greeted harshly.

As it is now, you could start start a Blues fan club in their lower bowl and no one would be around to stop you.

by gallagher on Feb 20, 2007 10:46 PM CST reply actions