Pats-Giants game WILL be on CBS and NBC!!!

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Patriots' historic game to be available to all of America, after all

Associated Press

NEW YORK -- After weeks of insisting they wouldn't cave in, NFL officials did just that Wednesday. Now all of America can see the Patriots' shot at history.

Saturday night's game between New England and the New York Giants on the NFL Network, which is available in fewer than 40 percent of the nation's homes with TVs, will be simulcast on CBS and NBC.
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The Patriots could become the first NFL team to go 16-0 in the regular season.

"We have taken this extraordinary step because it is in the best interest of our fans," commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement after the league announced it was reversing course. "What we have seen for the past year is a very strong consumer demand for NFL Network. We appreciate CBS and NBC delivering the NFL Network telecast on Saturday night to the broad audience that deserves to see this potentially historic game. Our commitment to the NFL Network is stronger than ever."

NFL Network spokesman Seth Palansky said officials would have no further comment Wednesday.

The NFL had claimed that the onus of making the game widely available fell on the major cable providers with which the league has bitterly feuded. Companies such as Comcast and Time Warner have declined to carry the network as part of basic packages.

But lawmakers have pressured the NFL to ensure more viewers could see the game. Last week, two prominent members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Goodell threatening to reconsider the league's antitrust exemption.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who co-wrote the letter with Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he was "delighted" by the NFL's concession.

"I think it was a smart move on their part," he said in a phone interview.

Leahy expected to speak with Goodell again next month about the ongoing question of how many fans will be able to see games on the channel. Saturday's matchup wraps up the NFL Network's second season of airing live contests, with eight per year. This one and a key Thursday night game between Green Bay and Dallas last month drew widespread complaints about the lack of availability.

"I never completely gave up hope, but I was getting a little discouraged Christmas afternoon when we still had not gotten a positive answer," said Leahy, who added that his staff members were talking with NFL officials during the holiday.

Local TV affiliates in the Boston, Manchester, N.H., and New York areas that were already set to simulcast the game under NFL policy will still air it. That means viewers in those markets will have four channels to choose from if they get NFL Network.

This will be the first three-network simulcast in NFL history and the first simulcast of an NFL game since the inaugural Super Bowl in 1967, when CBS and NBC televised the meeting of the champions of the newly merged National Football League and American Football League.

"We're happy to accommodate the NFL's request for a joint national simulcast of this potentially historic game to make it available to the widest possible audience," said Dick Ebersol, NBC Universal's chairman for sports and Olympics.

NBC was scheduled to air "Dateline NBC" and a repeat of "Law & Order: SVU" during the time slot. CBS was set to broadcast the movie "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "48 Hours: Mysteries."
Patriots' historic game to be available to all of America, after all

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[Sparegeez]

Because I have the NFL Network I really don't care.

[OG Hack Wilson]

i nkow what im watchin sat night 

[MontrealCity's Most]

i nkow what im watchin sat night 

yeah seriously

gonna kick it at my boys house , watch the game get some drink on, some 360 and get some honeys for later yeaaa

[OG Hack Wilson]

i nkow what im watchin sat night 

yeah seriously

gonna kick it at my boys house , watch the game get some drink on, some 360 and get some honeys for later yeaaa

word sounds like a good time

im gonig to be riding a bus for 8 hours back up home (im in NY and going back up to bangor) and once i get home im callin over my boy and rolling up a fatty

[Lunatic]

fuck man, gon be a SICK week in the nfl..lords knows i'll be watchin that pats-giants leadin up all da way 2 my titans-colts game

my nerves is fuckin crazy right now

[MontrealCity's Most]

Try to relax homeboy lol

[Lunatic]

Try to relax homeboy lol

LOL i can't

lmao i'm just wayy 2 passionate bout sports..ain't a team i like better in all of sports than the titans and i never even been 2 nashville LOL

the idea of us back in the playoffs

[Shallow]

Try to relax homeboy lol

LOL i can't

lmao i'm just wayy 2 passionate bout sports..ain't a team i like better in all of sports than the titans and i never even been 2 nashville LOL

the idea of us back in the playoffs

I hope they get in too, then beat Pit (or SD dependin on what happens) and then beat NE. If that were to happen and Jacksonville won then the three of the 4 AFC South teams would be in the semi-finals.

[Lunatic]

I hope they get in too, then beat Pit (or SD dependin on what happens) and then beat NE. If that were to happen and Jacksonville won then the three of the 4 AFC South teams would be in the semi-finals.

thanks
if we play pitt, 100% we win that game..but if we do get in we'll likely be playing s.d, and that is a toss-up IMO. after that i don't know

[Primo]

eli will throw 5 ints like usual

[OG Hack Wilson]

eli will throw 5 ints like usual

mofucka eli wont be playin long enough to do that

[Vegasmac25]

i like the announcers better on the NFL network Nbc an Cbs suck.

[jeromechickenbone]

I hope the Pats get beat. 

[Lunatic]

I hope the Pats get beat. 

same, but ain't happenin