NFL Network vs cable TV systems

According to the sports pages, a lot of football fans are upset that they won't get to see the Dallas-Green Bay game tonight because their cable system does not carry the NFL Network, which has the game.

Super-rich cable TV systems and the super-rich NFL are staring each other down over money issues and such, and neither side has blinked.

Well, I have satellite TV. I would rather have cable so I could get high-speed Internet access, but the geniuses of yesteryear decided that certain areas of the county didn't need cable. Anyway, I have the NFL Network in my package, so I can watch the game tonight.

But I won't. It interests me not. I need to do some laundry, anyway. And somewhere, a football fan is crying.

Oh, I get the Big Ten Network, too. One of my coworkers had to cancel her cable service and switch to satellite TV so her husband could watch the Ohio State games on Big Ten. But I don't care for the Purdue-Michigan State volleyball match, so I'll pass on that, too.