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salsadancer7
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WHAT is going on in the New England area??!!

The New England/Boston area sports is just out of hand!! The Red Sox win the World Series, the Patriots one of the....if not THE best chance to go to the Super Bowl....the Eagles of Boston College are ranked #2 in the country.....and the Boston Celtics are loaded and could be in the "beast of the East".....

WOW!!

I cannot remember a time when a city had just about ALL of their sports teams at the brink of winning a championship at every single sport...!

IF someone can come up with a city that had a better year...I would like to know who?
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Brink Broken..................I tell u whats going on , BC Just Choked to FSU :rolleyes:& tomorrow Brady will Choke to Peyton :p:hungry::hungry:, Have Fun Boston:rolleyes:;):p:p
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salsadancer7
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NpaulTodd said:
I tell whats going on , BC Just Choked & tomorrow Brady will Choke to Peyton , Have Fun Boston:rolleyes:;):p:p
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From YOUR mouth to Brady's ears....could I have just given them the perverbial "kiss of death"...? :DLOL
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Jimbo
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salsadancer7 said:
From YOUR mouth to Brady's ears....could I have just given them the perverbial "kiss of death"...? :DLOL
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Last year the Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons all made it to at least the conference finals ..... Does that count .... Lions did not, but 3 out of 4 ain't bad.

Jimbo
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cybok0
cybok0
1979 the Steelers won the SuperBowl and the Pirates won the World series. Pitt won the Eastern football title in 1979, and went to the Fiesta Bowl.
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Peter Parker
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Jimbo said:
Last year the Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons all made it to at least the conference finals ..... Does that count .... Lions did not, but 3 out of 4 ain't bad.

Jimbo
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Well the Bruins have not had much success of late so no region is perfect I guess.
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Peter Parker
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cybok0 said:
1979 the Steelers won the SuperBowl and the Pirates won the World series. Pitt won the Eastern football title in 1979, and went to the Fiesta Bowl.
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What si the Eastern football title?
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Geronimo said:
Well the Bruins have not had much success of late so no region is perfect I guess.
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in the lhe last 20 years 87 till now, id say the bruins have had more success the celts i seem to remember bruins vs gretzky in or round 88 i think
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Peter Parker
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The Bruins have had a lot of success historically. At one time they held the record for the most consecutive seasons in the playoffs. But the last few years not so much. if you recall that is why Bourque left. He just wanted a shot at the cup and frankly few if any Bruins fans blamed him. As for the Celts everyone is just assuming that they will win their division and perhaps the East. Who knows. The additon of a new big three would certainly seem to have made them better (they were AWFUL last year) but heck all three could get hurt in the first ten games.
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I'm thinking the same thing about the Celtics. I remember when the Lakers got Malone and Payton to ad to Shaq and Kobe. Everyone thought we had a dream team - then dissension, ego and injuries played its role.

Geronimo said:
The Bruins have had a lot of success historically. At one time they held the record for the most consecutive seasons in the playoffs. But the last few years not so much. if you recall that is why Bourque left. He just wanted a shot at the cup and frankly few if any Bruins fans blamed him. As for the Celts everyone is just assuming that they will win their division and perhaps the East. Who knows. The additon of a new big three would certainly seem to have made them better (they were AWFUL last year) but heck all three could get hurt in the first ten games.
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sidekick said:
I'm thinking the same thing about the Celtics. I remember when the Lakers got Malone and Payton to ad to Shaq and Kobe. Everyone thought we had a dream team - then dissension, ego and injuries played its role.
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And then the PISTONS layed down the lumber on their heads.
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Geronimo said:
What si the Eastern football title?
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Before 1990 when Penn State joined the Big Ten and 1991 when the Big East was created, Most of those teams were independents, the best teams in the east won the Eastern Football title, "The Beast of the East" is what we always called it, seemed like it was always Penn State or Pitt when I was growing up.

Pitt won Eastern football titles in 1925, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1955, 1976, 1979, 1980, and won a co-share of the Big East Conference championship and received a BCS bowl berth in 2004.

1976 Pitt were National Champions. along with 1915, 1916, 1918, 1929, 1937, 1931, 1934 and 1936

Pittsburgh Panthers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Plus since 1936 the best team in the east has won the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy, I know it's not really a big deal compared to a National title, but it's something.:)

Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy winners.

Year School

1936 Pittsburgh
1937 Pittsburgh
1938 Carnegie Tech
1939 Cornell
1940 Boston College
1941 Fordham
1942 Boston College
1943 Navy
1944 Army
1945 Army
1946 Army
1947 Penn State
1948 Army
1949 Army
1950 Princeton
1951 Princeton
1952 Syracuse
1953 Army
1954 Navy
1955 Pittsburgh
1956 Syracuse
1957 Navy
1958 Army
1959 Syracuse
1960 Navy/Yale
1961 Penn State
1962 Penn State
1963 Navy
1964 Penn State
1965 Dartmouth
1966 Syracuse
1967 Penn State
1968 Penn State
1969 Penn State
1970 Dartmouth
1971 Penn State
1972 Penn State
1973 Penn State
1974 Penn State
1975 Penn State
1976 Pittsburgh
1977 Penn State
1978 Penn State
1979 Pittsburgh
1980 Pittsburgh
1981 Penn State
1982 Penn State
1983 Boston College
1984 Boston College
1985 Penn State
1986 Penn State
1987 Syracuse
1988 West Virginia
1989 Penn State
1990 Penn State
1991 Penn State
1992 Syracuse
1993 West Virginia
1994 Penn State
1995 Virginia Tech
1996 Penn State
1997 Penn State
1998 Penn State
1999 Virginia Tech
2000 Miami
2001 Miami
2002 Miami
2003 Miami
2004 Boston College
2005 Penn State
2006 Louisville

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Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Laptop Shutting Off When On Battery?

Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.
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Macbook PROLED XDR Impressions: They Said They Wouldn't!

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MacBoo PROLED - What You Need To Know!

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MacBook PROLED Nanotexture

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Microsoft's New Round of Employee Buyouts

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Linus was Right - Apple (probably)

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I think we could all use a laugh - Rodney Dangerfield on Carson

Good...simple humor. Enjoy


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Bruce
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How things have changed

I was reading this article

thehill.com

Cable TV ‘cord-cutters’ became the majority in 2022

The steady decline of cable and broadcast television, and the rise of streaming services, reached a sort of inflection point over the past year. Last summer, for the first time, streaming ser…
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Last summer, for the first time, streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime claimed the largest share of the television viewing audience, surpassing both cable and broadcast TV. Streaming captured 34.8 percent of July viewers, according to Nielsen data, compared to 34.4 percent for cable and 21.6 percent for broadcast.

And then, sometime in the second half of 2022, cord-cutters became the majority. The share of cable and satellite television subscribers dipped to 48 percent, according to a report from Samba TV, a television technology company.

Now I do not consider those with YTTV and the likes, Cord Cutters, but they still do not have Traditional Cable/Satellite delivered Live TV, so I decided to do the math.

There are, now, 129 Million Households in the United States.

In 2015, there were 100 Million Cable/Sat Subscribers , no streaming Live TV Service.

Today, there are 66 Million Live TV subscribers, including Cable, Satellite and Streaming.

Roughly, Streaming Live TV has 14 Million subs including all of them.

So that means, Cable/Satellite now has, roughly, 51 Million Households

So in just 8 years, lost 49% of their subscribers and by the end of this year, expected sub count to be, roughly, 45 million households.

That means a total loss of 55% since 2015 at the end of 2023.

But out of 129 Million households, 45 million will mean only 35% will get Cable/Satellite Delivered Live TV by the end of 2023.

Imagine what 2024 will be like.
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And again, 15 months in a row, streaming wins-

Cable and Broadcast added together-36.4%

Streaming with a massive 49.6%, 13.2% higher than Broadcast/Streaming.

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Bruce said:
And again, 15 months in a row, streaming wins-

Cable and Broadcast added together-36.4%

Streaming with a massive 49.6%, 13.2% higher than Broadcast/Streaming.

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Your Still Thrilled about all this ?

These numbers will Never be accurate as many people use Both still ...

You have services like Hulu Live and You Tube TV that do, what you call Cable, but they ARE Streaming, so Which is is ?

Does it get counted 2x as both Streaming and Cable ?
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But they ARE Streaming as well, so they Should be counted as both, which would make the Streaming numbers even More prominate.

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Who does the Counting for Streaming ?

Neilson does the Broadcast/Cable ...
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Jimbo said:
But they ARE Streaming as well, so they Should be counted as both, which would make the Streaming numbers even More prominate.

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Who does the Counting for Streaming ?

Neilson does the Broadcast/Cable ...
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Same.

Ratings for streaming content is extremely accurate, since the service knows who is watching what and when, when we hit ok on our remotes.

Ratings for Broadcast/Cable shows has always been a estimate.
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Jimbo
Bruce said:
Same.

Ratings for streaming content is extremely accurate, since the service knows who is watching what and when, when we hit ok on our remotes.

Ratings for Broadcast/Cable shows has always been a estimate.
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If I flip thru shows on an app, 3-4 in a few minutes, does that still show that I watched the whole episode ?


If I watch the Super Bowl for 5 minutes, does that count as watching the Super Bowl ?
Is it the same if I just watched the Commercials.
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Jimbo said:
If I flip thru shows on an app, 3-4 in a few minutes, does that still show that I watched the whole episode ?


If I watch the Super Bowl for 5 minutes, does that count as watching the Super Bowl ?
Is it the same if I just watched the Commercials.
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Nielsen Streaming Ratings: Third-party measurement firm Nielsen tracks U.S. streaming viewership, releasing weekly reports that measure total minutes viewed across major television sets, broken down by program (such as original, acquired, and movie content) rather than minute-by-minute audience retention curves.
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Jimbo said:
Your Still Thrilled about all this ?

These numbers will Never be accurate as many people use Both still ...
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Nobody is "happy" or "sad" about this. Simply posting data in an non-editorialized way has nothing to do with anyone's feelings.

The data on the streaming side is immensely accurate, I'm guessing to the millisecond. Plus most people likely have not turned off data sharing and thus they are grabbing a huge swath of data. Much more accurate than cable which relies on a smaller sample size and probably not to the second.

In either case, nobody is getting "double counted" because it's usage based. If I watch 100 minutes of content and 30 minutes is on Youtube and 20 minutes on Disney and 50 minutes on YTTV, it's going to show up as 30%, 20%, 50% slices of my personal pie respectively.
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Nielsen does. If you go into the settings of any of your streaming accounts, you can turn off the option to share to usage data with their third party measuring service - Nielsen.
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savarese04 said:
Nobody is "happy" or "sad" about this. Simply posting data in an non-editorialized way has nothing to do with anyone's feelings.

The data on the streaming side is immensely accurate, I'm guessing to the millisecond. Plus most people likely have not turned off data sharing and thus they are grabbing a huge swath of data. Much more accurate than cable which relies on a smaller sample size and probably not to the second.

In either case, nobody is getting "double counted" because it's usage based. If I watch 100 minutes of content and 30 minutes is on Youtube and 20 minutes on Disney and 50 minutes on YTTV, it's going to show up as 30%, 20%, 50% slices of my personal pie respectively.

Nielsen does. If you go into the settings of any of your streaming accounts, you can turn off the option to share to usage data with their third party measuring service - Nielsen.
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I have turned some off, not others ...
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View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u4rACh-Tt5k?feature=share
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Funny thing is that as the screen size and pic quality increase, the quality of the programming has DEcreased.
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2026-27 NCAA College Football

Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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You mean other than Miami being in the final last year... and Indiana being the only bye team to win a game?
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You mean other than Miami being in the final last year... and Indiana being the only bye team to win a game?
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No, I was actually referring to outside of the Top 8, but should have been Top 12 ...

I guess I should have looked at the bracket from last year first ...

I'm more thinking about them trying to expect a 15 to beat a 5 seed or there abouts .
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Jimbo said:
I'm more thinking about them trying to expect a 15 to beat a 5 seed or there abouts .
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I mean you get upsets all the time.

Just a couple of weeks ago. Unranked Florida knocked off number 7 texas. Unranked Auburn beat number 1 Georgia.

This week unranked Cincinnati beat number 8 texas Tech. Unranked UCF beat number 2 BYU.

No reason to think similar upsets wont happen in the playoffs where a low seed can upset a higher one.
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Ronnie- said:
I mean you get upsets all the time.

Just a couple of weeks ago. Unranked Florida knocked off number 7 texas. Unranked Auburn beat number 1 Georgia.

This week unranked Cincinnati beat number 8 texas Tech. Unranked UCF beat number 2 BYU.

No reason to think similar upsets wont happen in the playoffs where a low seed can upset a higher one.
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Yep, wonder why we rank the top 25 in 2 poles still? Do the ranking change much if they are unranked or have many loses? They sure do, any given day never take your opponent as a cake walk.....
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Ronnie- said:
I mean you get upsets all the time.

Just a couple of weeks ago. Unranked Florida knocked off number 7 texas. Unranked Auburn beat number 1 Georgia.

This week unranked Cincinnati beat number 8 texas Tech. Unranked UCF beat number 2 BYU.

No reason to think similar upsets wont happen in the playoffs where a low seed can upset a higher one.
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Correct, you Do get upsets from time to time ....however .
You Don't get teams UPSETTING teams for 5 weeks in a row.

They are trying to make this Basketball and its a far cry from the way that is played.

How long till they go to 32 teams ? Then they will say, well, the NFL is 32 teams, we can make more money that way .... except the NFL is 32 teams, that are a set number of teams and divisions, you don't have that in College ... oh but they will try.

They would have to choose what teams they would want in and thats it.
Hopefully that NEVER happens.

I can see the NCAA going away and the CFP taking that portion over and a Collective Bargaining agreement coming in the not to distant future.
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The problem with rankings and playoffs is that they are designed to hype the game and make money. Period.

The only reason that BYU and Texas Tech were upsets is that they were hyped up in the standings in the first place. I love watching BYU and Bear Bachmeier. They are a fun and talented team, but not nearly so strong, fast, big, and skilled as a true top ten team. Does anyone truly believe they could compete with the likes of Georgia, Ohio State, Indiana, Alabama, etc.? Yet, they were ranked above those teams.

Each year, there are 10 to 12 teams who truly could compete for the championship if it depended on winning more than one game in a playoff. Including teams like James Madison, Tulane, BYU, etc. in a playoff has nothing to do with determining a national champion. It's just about money.
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Jimbo said:
Correct, you Do get upsets from time to time
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Yes. As shown in a few posts now.


Jimbo said:
You Don't get teams UPSETTING teams for 5 weeks in a row.

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But that wasn't what your stated argument was though.


I mean if you drag it out, no team even a favorite is gonna win every game 20 weeks in a row.


With the parity in college football now, who knows who can beat anyone at any given time?

This season and last have shown it might not be the ones we think that might win it all that will win it all.
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Ronnie- said:
Yes. As shown in a few posts now.



But that wasn't what your stated argument was though.


I mean if you drag it out, no team even a favorite is gonna win every game 20 weeks in a row.


With the parity in college football now, who knows who can beat anyone at any given time?

This season and last have shown it might not be the ones we think that might win it all that will win it all.
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No, no ... if you want to make the playoffs, you want to Win it ... If you want to Win it, you need to Win 4-5 games in a row against Top 10 teams for the most part, theres a Possibility you'd play someone out side of the Top 10, but not much.

The Playoffs is a 4-5 game Win or Go Home.
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