DenverTigerMan

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Jon Meachum

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John Mecom Jr.

Thanks. I’m in Denver today and I live in Cheyenne.
I used to watch LSU football and baseball when I was in Australia with a VPN.
That was before Disney got involved.

Were you alive in 1980?

Looks very much like Danny Simar, who died a few years ago, I believe.

I did.

Mine, too. What a game!

I spent one semester in West Stadium in 1972. It was a dump and a nightmare existence.

Ole Miss, 1972.

I've had DirecTV for 25 years and I think I can speak to this issue. When I first got DTV in 1999, I was also looking at Dish. There were two issues that settled me on DTV. The first was that I didn't have clear line of sight to the Dish satellite, and DTV had the NFL Sunday Ticket.

In the 25 years since, I've been pleased with the service from DirecTV. For the first 20 years or so, DTV was its own entity. About 5 or so years ago, AT&T bought DirecTV. That's when the trouble started. Within months, AT&T started picking fights, first with the local channels, then with the satellite providers. The squabbles resulted in the local channels and then the other providers being taken off the air until they were ready to play ball with AT&T. We lost CBS, NBC, and ABC for a time, and then it was Altitude, where the Colorado Avalanche play. And these moves were made right before the season started.
Now, it's the Disney network that's been targeted. I currently have 11 channels that I currently watch that are off the air. This includes all of the ESPN channels, SEC Network, and Discovery.

It's important to know that this disruption is not the workings of DirecTV; it's that of their slave masters at AT&T. None of this ever happened when DirecTV was in charge of its own destiny.

Several years ago, I needed an electric scooter to get around prior to a heart procedure. I walked into south stadium with the folded scooter in full view of the ticket takers at the gate. No questions were raised, I got to my seat, and the scooter was stored under my seat during the game with no objections.