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Our friends over at Harrah's Cherokee have the following Panthers odds available today. Payouts are based on a $20 buy-in: Win the NFC South: +900 ($20 to win $180 to pay $200) Win the NFC: 35/1 ($20 to win $700 to pay $720) Win the Super Bowl: 85/1 ($20 to win $1700 to pay $1720)

We don't want leftover yips. Please let him take the yips with him

Oooooh, so close to having another reasonable option for watching NFL online. Almost sounds like FOX's answer to NFL's RedZone, but something tells me that this may be FOX-specific rather than across all networks (ala RedZone or ESPN's NFL highlights show) =-=-=- FOX has announced that they will be expanding their (free) TUBI streaming channel to include sports, including NFL. Tubi’s curated NFL channel will include “near-to-live” in-season digital highlights plus replays of “some of the most memorable matchups in NFL history” and library content including past seasons of the series “Hard Knocks.” the Tubi hub also will comprise nearly 700 hours of on-demand content at launch from the NFL, MLB, Nascar, Big Ten, Concacaf soccer, PBC boxing, PBA bowling and more. https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/tubi-free-live-sports-channels-fox-nfl-mlb-1235048068/

Some T-Mobile customers already received free Netflix. Today, T-Mobile announced that customers can get a year of AppleTV+ for free.

Can't be him - he's not wearing a KUECHLY jersey. (would a former player ever wear their own jersey casually?)

I would have liked to see Tepper insist on the Absolute Best Turf in the NFL, as opposed to Just As Good As Other Stadium turfs. Have we heard any reports of how our turf compares to the turf in other stadiums? Thicker, lusher, softer, more turgid, anything?

I wouldn't say "fake". I'd say "predetermined". What happens in the ring may be contrived, but there's a lot of effort/pain/work involved in making it look as real as it can be.

From a pulled back muscle perspective, I've run into that on occasion (been told it's fixable by More Exercise and Losing Weight). Typically, goes away after 1-2 weeks of careful moving/sitting/lack-of-lifting, and one (sometimes two) Aleve a day. More medically-oriented Huddlers will have better advice and insight

Back in the late '90's-early 2000's, the Pooh franchise was bringing in more money to Disney than the "Fab Five" (including Mickey) were. Surveys seemed to back this up, where kids didn't know anything more about Mickey than he "was at the Theme Park". All the work that Walt and company had done to brand Disney as "it all started with a mouse" (aka the Mouseketeers, the Mickey Mouse Club, etc) were seemingly all for naught. That's what started the big big push to rebrand Mickey and Friends and introduce those characters beyond the theme park appearances while at the same time discounting/minimizing Pooh availability. The Schlesinger merch lawsuit at the same time didn't help matters. At about the same time, a Disney exec attended a "Disney on Ice" event and saw the audience dressed in generic princess attire. A lightbulb went off, and the Disney Princess merchandise line began. To me, the Princess moment marked a key pivot for Disney away from "family entertainment" to "let's market towards kids exclusively". With this, Disney proceeded to go down a distinct path away from product/content that would appeal to a wide mass audience with their focus on children. A trip to Walt Disney World used to be a Family Vacation, but now it's "we have to do this for the kids". [See also the removal of the fantastically scary Alien Encounter attraction and subsequent replacement with a Stitch overlay, complete with fart smells - as the AE attraction was "too scary for children". Also, the reworking of "Snow White's Scary Adventures" to "Snow White's Adventures", also because kids shouldn't be "frightened" by an attraction] LucasFilm and Marvel is one way Disney is trying to loop back to an older audience, but they're running into issues trying to shoehorn everything into an existing park experience vs perhaps finally opening the mythical "fifth gate" at Walt Disney World that would cater towards teens/adults.

Spinning off a topic from the current Suicide Squad thread where someone talked about how nobody would buy Lucasfilm today after the mess Disney made with the most recent films. Here's a breakdown of what Disney *paid* vs what Disney's *earned* for some of their acquisitions: Marvel - cost: $4 billion. With over 23 total films (at the time of the article), they've grossed nearly $23 billion at the box office alone Lucasfilm - cost: $4 billion. Delivered five films in four years, generating a gross profit of $2 billion Pixar - cost: $7.4 billion. Since the purchase, there were 16 films grossing more than $11 billion. Plus add on the uncalculatable value of the early years of John Lassiter turning around Disney Creative (before his work situation thing happened) Hulu - cost: $10.5 billion. Helps solidify a streaming audience and recurring revenue FOX - cost: $71.3 billion. That Gigantic Library of Content, including the original Star Wars film rights, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Avatar. https://observer.com/2020/09/disney-buys-star-wars-marvel-fox-hulu-pixar-cost-box-office/

Not typically a DC fan (the movies got WAY too dark for my particular taste), so haven't seen a lot of the recent offerings. Watched Suicide Squad last night and we mostly enjoyed it. They probably could have PG-13'd more of the violence or made it more cartoony rather than explicit. Was surprised at the opening credit cast list vs how the plot played out. John Cena continues to be amusing in his role choices. Who knew he'd have good comedic timing?

Isn't that what sort of happened with Avengers? IIRC, when Iron Man came out, the whole MCU wasn't planned out at all. It really started to come together after Disney bought Marvel and Marvel Studios was tasked to come up with something using the characters that Disney would be able to use in the Florida theme parks (due to the Universal Studios+Marvel licensing issue). Similarly, the Mandalorian was super-popular because it DIDN'T focus on the primary characters of the Star Wars universe. As Jon Favreau said: "we made this show for all the kids whose older siblings played with the /cool/ Star Wars toys and left us with the toys/characters nobody wanted"

If it makes anyone feel better about losing preseason games: the Bucs and the Packers are also 0-2 this preseason. So at least we're keeping pace with those teams.

Thought a reasonable recent summary would be helpful to some. (Yes, I know this could have gone in the main forum 'cause it's football-related, but figured it'd be perfectly fine here too. ) This is from https://variety.com/feature/watch-nfl-online-1235045647/ , "HOW TO WATCH AND STREAM THE NFL" Amazon Prime: 11 Thursday Night games YouTube TV: Basic plan comes basic broadcasters along with ESPN and NFL network. Sports package with Red Zone is extra Hulu Plus: Fox, CBS, NBC, ESPN Fubo TV: NBC, Fox, CBS, ESPN, NFL Network ESPN Plus: uh.... ESPN SlingTV: Either ESPN or Fox+NBC, depending on package. Redzone is available for extra [insert obligatory "just watch the streams for free from some random Reddit post/Google search" comment here]

Did it shake you all night long? (all night) All night.... (all night) All night long?

As mentioned in a different thread, various TV providers rely on data from three(?) different guide services. Comcast may use service #1, Spectrum may use service #2, YouTube may use service #3. Those guides are only as good as the data fed to them (obviously). In some instances, it's the responsibility of the individual TV station to upload data to each of the individual providers; in other cases, some providers use feeds from each other to populate data (meaning, they rely on a "partner" to be the sole/best source of info). In other cases, the guides publish data they receive from the network, and they may have had some issue with a local station's "override national programming" update -- for discussion purposes, a bad update could be a funky non-ASCII character from a copy/paste, or perhaps a title or description that was too long, resulting in an inaccessible/invalid data entry until it's fixed. In all cases, it can take a day or more for updates to be populated into the DB and pushed out to receivers or other user-facing interfaces. It's definitely not instant upon update by any means, even for online-only services. In an ideal world, these updates would be in real-time, so your DVR would know automatically to continue to record overtime games as they ran over. But for now, we're kinda stuck having to manually say "let's add an extra hour to the recording, just in case"

Each TV station has a receiver that needs to be uniquely licensed to receive a game's satellite signal. If the license is misconfigured at either end (or a legit issue with the transmitter not encoding against that particular license successfully), then there can be issues with the station receiving a clean feed.

From what I've read this afternoon from various sources, it's not WSOC's fault, but rather an issue with the signal that they were receiving to send out. If the feed coming in to the station is wonky, then the station has no way to fix it by themselves.

Depends on the network, and which service you're looking at. There are three(?) major TV listing providers that each power different systems -- which is why Comcast's guide may be different from Spectrum's or Dish, as an example. If the station didn't provide their data to the listing providers in a timely manner, their local-specific info won't show in the guide. For at least one of those services, it's a minimum 24 hr turnaround for them to distribute updates (and with that, no guarantee the update will be pushed to all devices by then). So it's not like the station can provide updates in near real-time.

Contact the station programming dept directly and request the Panthers coverage. The stations have enough leeway to determine which games to carry. Hopefully this list will help you determine which games you'll need to call to complain about: I use the weekly TV NFL maps to determine which games I get to watch at home vs having to go to the bar for. There's some advance awareness that comes into play as well --- (ex: "ooooh, the Falcons are playing at 4p that weekend, there's a chance local Fox will air the Panthers game at 1p maybe")

Not on that opening drive sack/fumble thing. (disclaimer: was pretty much the only play I saw) (disclaimer #2: YAY, FOOTBALL"S BACK!)

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The thing I don't like about locast is that if you don't pay for it, you have to re-sign in every X minutes to maintain the connection. On the other hand, it's a (reasonable, free, and supposedly legal) solution to live-watch something when the cable company/local station has a dispute.

check the thread over in the Huddle Lounge for that discussion...

Netflix (and possibly other streamers eventually) is starting to purposefully block access to users who utilize known VPN IPs to cut down on the geofencing workarounds.