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Some beefs about the Super Bowl
Another great football season came to an end Sunday night when the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl.
While I thoroughly enjoyed watching the game, the one thing that I did not enjoy was the way it was broadcast to us.
For many of those who watch the event, the game is only part of the experience. The commercials are also a big part of the entertainment; especially if your team (Vikings in my case) has been eliminated.
However, in Canada the signal is changed so that we do not get to see the great commercials. They overlap the signal from the Canadian station carrying the game... in this year's case it was CTV.
So even though we had the satellite receiver set to CBS we received a picture displaying the CTV logo and their own selection of ads.
I do not understand how they can get away with this. It happens all the time. You click on a station from the US and get a rebroadcast from a Canadian station. In a sense we are getting ripped off in more ways than one. We do not get to watch the US commercials and all those hundreds of channels they say they are providing us are in fact duplicates.
They charge us an arm and a leg for television services that are falsely advertised. I think there should be a law against doing this.
Another beef I have with the Super Bowl is that they call it a "bowl" and then have a trophy with a football on it.
All the college bowls actually have a bowl shaped trophy, much like hockey's Stanley Cup.
–Until then,
Ken