re: CBS Sucking The Life Out Of Games

I just DVR the games and ff thru the endless commercials. Of course, since I'm over a thousand miles away, it's my only choice. I can see how it would drive you bat shite crazy if you were in the stadium. Last game I saw in Tiger Stadium was Ole Miss, 1970, the "Orange" game. Yesterday, I turned off my phone(so no one could play spoiler), went skiing in Santa Fe(best early season conditions in 40 yrs; come on out) and watched like it was live around 4(without commercials). Were I a betting man I would have taken the Pigs and 24, but I learned a long time ago that whatever side I bet on is going to be the wrong one.

You are spot EZE Tiger. Needless to say now living in Big Sky country and have to watch on TV but even on TV , its brutal. CBS has taken what should be at most a 3 and one half hour game and easily goes between 4 and 4 and a half hours. ::Unbelievable.

I agree. Being at the game was almost miserable. There was a period of about 30 minutes with barely any football. After a big play momentum would die.

I hate CBS coverage; too many commercials. Too much Verne and in general a bad game-day experience in the stadium because of the excessive commercial time-outs. And that's not to mention a general destruction of any game-time tempo for the opposing teams being televised by CBS.

BUT, I am wondering and probably I am the only one in the world who doesn't know the answer to this question: What will happen to CBS coverage of SEC games once the SEC network opens up in 2014? Could it be possible that we've seen the last of Verne and Gary? Could we all be that fortunate?

It's a bit much when the games to 4+ hours

It's amazing that television networks can make infinity dollars broadcasting soccer and they don't have to ruin the flow of the game to do it. If they figured out how to do that with fairy ball they should be able to do that with football.

We had four games on ESPN this year. They averaged 3 hours & 36 minutes in length.

We had five games on CBS. They averaged 3 hours & 29 minutes.

had to leave the game at 5:00 (work). there was still around five minutes left in the game.

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Huge tv contracts require more commercials to pay for them. Just the way it is.

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I will argue that fans are at the top of the food chain. When we began to target advertisers and boycott them it will compel CBS/ESPN/SEC to limit commercial delays. But until there is an organized response they have no reason to limit delays.