[Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football games

Steven jfpgroup at suddenlink.net
Wed Aug 31 22:04:05 CDT 2011 

Man...this entire thread is crazy and out of control.  I was a TV 
producer for 23 years and managed a Cox system that did live 
news/sports, etc.  I have been a vice president of a large bank (over 
725 branches) for the last 8 years...don't ask me how...but I have only 
grown my media and communication addictions.  I have full blown 
cable/internet and home phone.
  I also have 5 kids still at home...3 I-pods...2 net books...2 PC's...1 
laptop...all internet connected.  My two teenage girls have cell phones 
with unlimited talk/text/web...My wife and I both have smart phones with 
unlimited everything...  I also live in Okla-where????  So I installed 
Direct TV in my bedroom for Husker games.  I also travel back and forth 
455 miles each way to Omaha to see my  oldest daughter and grand-kids 
and attend 3-4 Husker games live... This year, Washington, Michigan 
State and Iowa.
I love Husker football... I had tickets since I was 10 (1970)  then 
season tickets from 1985-2008. I have attended 183 of the 311 
sell-outs...plus nearly 80 away games and bowl games.  I also attend 
Husker baseball/volleyball and basketball games.

I guess we all have our price...and my wife never questions my Husker 
addiction....

GO BIG RED!!!!!!

Steven K
Class of 1983
Proud Member of the Oklahoma Cornhusker Club
http://www.okhuskers.com/





On 8/31/2011 10:25 AM, Mark Landin wrote:
> I will always have a landline while my kids live with us. If anyone
> needs to dial 911 I'm going to make it as easy as possible.
>
> On 8/30/11, Monty Perry<python3955 at hotmail.com>  wrote:
>> My Cell bill is $114 for MY phone. My kids add on phone is around $60..My
>> Landline is about $54 and it works in any room, not just where the charger
>> is. Plus I can shut off my ringer for a set amount of hours, to block the
>> telemarketers out, and still get my call to work at 1-5 in the morning! Life
>> is good! Landline is good. Cell Phone is good in my pocket.....Don't wear it
>> to bed...too many text messages and updates to deal with.
>> Monty
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:58:08 -0400
>>> From: gobigredlist at gmail.com
>>> To: mikejaixen at yahoo.com
>>> CC: husker at tssi.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football games
>>>
>>> No way I would subscribe to a landline phone.  What would you use one for?
>>> I
>>> have a family plan and put an extra line on it with a free cell phone that
>>> just sits there.  Allows me to have a home phone number, since I never
>>> give
>>> out my cell number.  Reception is fine, but no one ever uses it.  Costs
>>> $10
>>> a month.  Attached it via bluetooth to a Panasonic device with 3 handsets
>>> around the house if you want to have it emulate a landline, but I wouldn't
>>> do that again because no one ever uses it.  I often just forward the home
>>> number to my cell so I don't have to check it for messages.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Mike Jaixen<mikejaixen at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Absolutely I use a hard-wired phone.  If I ever had to choose between a
>>>> cell phone and the hard-wired phone, I'd choose the hard-wired one for
>>>> one
>>>> basic reason:  they work.
>>>>
>>>> Dead batteries, low reliability, bad signals, crummy sound quality...
>>>> you
>>>> name it.  Every cell phone I've experienced is a piece of crap in terms
>>>> of a
>>>> voice communication tool.  Even Apple hasn't figured out how to make one
>>>> work for voice communication.  The new iPhone and Droid phones do some
>>>> amazing things in terms of going online and getting information to you.
>>>> But
>>>> at it's core, it's still a piece of garbage in terms of a phone.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mike Jaixen
>>>> http://huskermike.blogspot.com
>>>> http://www.cornnation.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: Aaron Wolfson<awolfson0 at gmail.com>
>>>> To: Mike Jaixen<mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
>>>> Cc: "Killmar, John"<John.Killmar at stjude.org>; "husker at tssi.com"<
>>>> husker at tssi.com>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 11:33 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football
>>>> games
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Man, Mike, I've been waiting for a-la-carte television ever since I was
>>>> old
>>>> enough to understand what television was. And I agree with you
>>>> completely;
>>>> if it wasn't for live sports, I would cut the cord right now without a
>>>> second thought. It's becoming an expensive habit. Cable and satellite
>>>> are
>>>> both major rackets at this point, probably trying to milk as much as
>>>> they
>>>> can before they become obsolete.
>>>>
>>>> Also: do people still use hard-wired phones?
>>>> Aaron
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Mike Jaixen<mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like Jay is one of those "cord-cutters" who have dropped cable
>>>> and
>>>> satellite completely. It's becoming a growing trend, but right now, it's
>>>> impractical for sports fans because while there is a good infrastructure
>>>> in
>>>> place via NetFlix, Hulu, and Apple for television programs, it's a hit
>>>> and
>>>> mostly miss mishmash of technology for live events.
>>>>> I do imagine that in 10 years, though, cable and DirecTV will be
>>>>> dinosaurs
>>>> for the most part.  It'll die harder and faster than hard-wired phones
>>>> because unlike cell phones, internet-based television delivery is going
>>>> to
>>>> give you the same quality of communication eventually.  And when that
>>>> happens, $70+ a month cable bills are going to be a thing of the past
>>>> once
>>>> people will have the ability to select their programming ala carte.
>>>>> The Pac-12 and K-State are already heading this direction; their new
>>>> networks are online, not traditional cable networks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike Jaixen
>>>>> http://huskermike.blogspot.com
>>>>> http://www.cornnation.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>> From: "Killmar, John"<John.Killmar at STJUDE.ORG>
>>>>> To: "husker at tssi.com"<husker at tssi.com>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:14 AM
>>>>>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football
>>>>> games
>>>>>
>>>>> Jay, you're not just talking about a few football games this season.
>>>>> This
>>>> season EVERY Husker football game will be on TV.  Most of the carriers
>>>> will
>>>> not charge extra for you to get BTN.  Are you just watching football on
>>>> an
>>>> over the air signal?  If so, you will probably only get to see a couple
>>>> of
>>>> Husker football games on TV.
>>>>> John Killmar
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On
>>>>> Behalf
>>>> Of Jay Schlechte
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:47 AM
>>>>> To: Jim5417P at aol.com
>>>>> Cc: husker at tssi.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Husker] Alternative ways to see the Nebraska football
>>>>> games
>>>>>
>>>>> In looking at the alternative ways, I don't think video.BTN.com will
>>>>> have
>>>> live football games and quite likely won't even have replays available.
>>>>> Where this could be really nice is for volleyball and baseball.  This
>>>>> is
>>>> the blurb I ran into on the intro page (
>>>>> http://video.btn.com/allaccess/index-splash.html):
>>>>>
>>>>> "Welcome to the Big Ten Digital Network Your online home for Big Ten
>>>> Conference video content and entertainment. The Big Ten Digital Network
>>>> offers fans the largest schedule of online streaming video for Big Ten
>>>> athletic events. Over 500 exclusive live streaming of *NON-TELEVISED*
>>>> events
>>>> direct from *BTN.com* covering basketball, baseball, soccer, volleyball
>>>> and
>>>> more! PLUS, subscribers gain access to additional live and on-demand
>>>> video
>>>> content from every Big Ten school."
>>>>> Which is really unfortunate and annoying from my perspective.  I have
>>>>> no
>>>> desire to pay the necessary amounts of money for a satellite or cable TV
>>>> service just to see a few football games.  Good old fashioned radio over
>>>> the
>>>> internet will have to do.  :) GBR,
>>>>> Jay
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:13 PM,<Jim5417P at aol.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Mike,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hopefully this note gets to you and you can share it with the list.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For the life of me I can not figure out how to post on the list.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What I wanted to share is that there are some alternative ways to see
>>>>>> the Nebraska games if you don't have satellite and your cable
>>>>>> provider
>>>>>> doesn't carry  the BTN.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Take a look at BTN2GO
>>>>>>
>>>>>> or look at   Video.BTN.com<http://video.btn.com/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Both of them are Internet options.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you have a carrier (Sat. or Cable)  that carries the BTN but is
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> showing the Nebraska games you can sign onto BTN2GO and see the
>>>> streaming
>>>>>> broadcast.   This option is NOT available if your cable company
>>>>>> doesn't
>>>>>> carry
>>>>>> the BTN.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you are in that position, then you can consider using
>>>>>> Video.BTN.com<http://video.btn.com/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Video.BTN is a fee based Internet service.  It is $14 per month or
>>>>>> $114 per year for all of the B1G.  You can sign up for Nebraska only
>>>>>> and  the annual fee is $79.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Only problem, right now they show NO game listings for Nebraska.  I
>>>>>> think it is coming but I can't guarantee anything.  I sent a question
>>>>>> to  the place on their website where they receive questions.  But
>>>>>> they
>>>>>> have not  given me any answers as of this time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hopefully this helps some of us.
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