Quick Write: Game Fastforward

First, I'm gonna try to write quicker posts from now on whenever I think of something to write about. This blog is just gonna be me typing and thinking so I hopefully don't overspend time on this. That's the goal. The reason why I haven't been committed to updating this in the past is because I want to write these long, epic ideas of blogs; instead, it might be more enjoyable for me and also for you, the rare reader of my writings, if I had more frequent, shorter blogs. But then again this is probably just gonna turn into a long "quick" ramble anyway. I should note I started typing at 10:20pm.

So the way we watch sports games (and tv) has certainly evolved with things like TIVO and generic recorded tv in general, and also with sports with things like the Red Zone Channel for NFL games. These things have been great. The Red Zone Channel is just an amazing thing. Normal TV is maybe two games for the early NFL Sunday games and then one game in the late afternoon, along with the night games. If you're in a town where your team isn't local (i.e. being a Skins fan in Houston or Chicago), chances are you won't see your team play on TV unless it's a big game. And if you're in a town with a poor team (i.e. most Houston and Chicago teams while I've been in said place), it's not as enjoyable. You have to go to places like BWW to watch more games and your own team. Red Zone combines all that. Takes all the exciting aspects of all the games on TV, and switches from one game to the next so that you can get all the important bits. It's a sports bar on your tv (or in my case, an online stream, since I don't have that channel).

Tivo is also great because you can record things you miss. One thing Kevin the RA did was start recording games, and then start watching it during the course of the game so that he could catch up to the ending by the time it was about to happen. Pretty cool, cause the one drawback about sports games is that you usually get ruined about the result if you don't watch it live, just because everyone around you knows scores, or you hear about it somehow.

Kevin watches it in a nice, compressed version. They should have this option for you, where the program automatically compresses the game, so that it skips over all dead time between plays, saving only important non-play scenarios like a coach challenging a play, skips the commercials, all that jazz. You get a provided short version of the game, WHILE it's still happening, so that you can catch up to the end. They can come up with a program that gauges when you should start watching the game and how to best catch it back up live, even if you might end up being 5 minutes late in the end.

See, for Kevin, he had to manually press fast forward (I think with TIVO, skip ahead 3o seconds, which can have its drawbacks). This program would do the job for you. Game Fastforward. It would be the best thing since the Red Zone Channel.