View Full Version : Was the inventor of TIVO a Chelsea fan?
WayneRooneyIsFat
28 Sep 2005, 06:44 PM
I don't understand how anyone manages to watch a Chelsea-Liverpool match without Tivo. I watched today's CL match on fast forward, slowing down only for set pieces. It took me 15 minutes, and even that was boring.
Nice to root for a team that plays as though it cares whether it scores goals.
jonam
28 Sep 2005, 07:01 PM
Nice to root for a team that plays as though it cares whether it scores goals.
You mean like Arsenal...................................some time ago!
;-)
antifan
28 Sep 2005, 07:07 PM
I don't understand how anyone manages to watch a Chelsea-Liverpool match without Tivo. I watched today's CL match on fast forward, slowing down only for set pieces. It took me 15 minutes, and even that was boring.
Nice to root for a team that plays as though it cares whether it scores goals.
Nah, Tivo's been around for about 5 years, and Chelski didn't have any fans until last year. ;)
king_saladin
28 Sep 2005, 07:08 PM
For a while I wondered what it would be like to watch a football match at like 1.2-1.5x . Could save a lot of time.
surfcam
28 Sep 2005, 07:13 PM
Nah, Tivo's been around for about 5 years, and Chelski didn't have any fans until last year. ;)
Oooohhhhhh BURN!
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to antifan again.
Dave_M
28 Sep 2005, 07:36 PM
I've never heard of this Tivo. Is he any good. Think Wenger should sign him in January?
I think our megre budget could run to one :)
surfcam
28 Sep 2005, 07:54 PM
I've never heard of this Tivo. Is he any good. Think Wenger should sign him in January?
I think our megre budget could run to one :)
Mourinho has already offered 50m quid for him.
Rima067
28 Sep 2005, 08:31 PM
I taped it to dvd and only checked once to see the score. Only well after it finished did I - firstly, beat you to it! :p - by checking the match through just the chapters.
Although, now that I hear Lpool had penalty appeals called off including a goal bound header by Carag. stopped by Gallas's hand I must go back to check it.
*to justify and apologize for taping it, I only have ESPN2 for CL matches so I tape all I get.
Milkman
29 Sep 2005, 10:38 AM
I don't understand how anyone manages to watch a Chelsea-Liverpool match without Tivo. I watched today's CL match on fast forward, slowing down only for set pieces. It took me 15 minutes, and even that was boring.
Nice to root for a team that plays as though it cares whether it scores goals.
I TIVO'd it. I watched the first half, and it about put me to sleep... I had to watch the second half on fast forward (boy am I glad I did, what a snooze-fest) and went to bed.
I would have been angry if I had paid money to attend that game... neither team cared about the result.
naggi
29 Sep 2005, 11:13 AM
My friend who came over to watch the game with me actually fell asleep during the second half. He slept from ~55mins and woke up ~77mins, so he didn't miss much. After he woke up, mumbling something about working late last night, we mostly fast-forwarded on TiVo for the rest of the game.
Watching Cheski play is worse than watching paint dry, but perhaps we can find some zen aspect to it. Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream...
Catfish
29 Sep 2005, 08:51 PM
Nah, Tivo's been around for about 5 years, and Chelski didn't have any fans until last year. ;)
HE SHOOTS! HE SCORES!!!!! Nice...
Eddie26
29 Sep 2005, 08:56 PM
Know your history. There used to be a time in the not so distant past when the same was said about the Arsenal. If you have no clue what I am talking about, asking an older Gunner.
"Boring, Boring Arsenal" anyone? How easily we forget.
antifan
29 Sep 2005, 09:12 PM
Know your history. There used to be a time in the not so distant past when the same was said about the Arsenal. If you have no clue what I am talking about, asking an older Gunner.
"Boring, Boring Arsenal" anyone? How easily we forget.
Was that Arsenal team the most expensive squad ever assembled? That's really the horrendous part, not that your team is boring but that it actually aspires to be boring. Its sad.
Gunner Phan
29 Sep 2005, 09:12 PM
HE SHOOTS! HE SCORES!!!!! Nice...
no...not on the comment the avatar. it doesn't look like keanu reeves.
goonsquad
29 Sep 2005, 09:21 PM
Was that Arsenal team the most expensive squad ever assembled? That's really the horrendous part, not that your team is boring but that it actually aspires to be boring. Its sad.
True that.
imnotreyes
29 Sep 2005, 09:29 PM
Nah, Tivo's been around for about 5 years, and Chelski didn't have any fans until last year. ;)
gotta give you props on that.... :D
Catfish
29 Sep 2005, 09:40 PM
no...not on the comment the avatar. it doesn't look like keanu reeves.
Come on GP, they could be brothers...they both have that lost sort of surfer dude look about them...lol.
sanariot
29 Sep 2005, 10:02 PM
Was that Arsenal team the most expensive squad ever assembled?
Money does not equal championships, you should know that. Chelsea spent a lot of money the year before last too and won nowt. ManUnited used to spend more than a lot of Premiership clubs combined, and you took a few trophies off of them...
That's really the horrendous part, not that your team is boring but that it actually aspires to be boring. Its sad.
If by boring you mean trying to stop the opponent from scoring and aspiring to score more goals than they do (AKA winning), then yes, we're guilty as charged. BTW, your "undefeated season" wasn't very entertaining for supporters of other clubs either, no matter how pretty the goals...
When one club is head and shoulders above the rest, it makes for a very boring season.
Gunner Phan
29 Sep 2005, 10:49 PM
Money does not equal championships, you should know that. Chelsea spent a lot of money the year before last too and won nowt. ManUnited used to spend more than a lot of Premiership clubs combined, and you took a few trophies off of them...
If by boring you mean trying to stop the opponent from scoring and aspiring to score more goals than they do (AKA winning), then yes, we're guilty as charged. BTW, your "undefeated season" wasn't very entertaining for supporters of other clubs either, no matter how pretty the goals...
When one club is head and shoulders above the rest, it makes for a very boring season.
I really don't see how you can compare the two. It was exciting for the average fan. Chelski, the flavor of the day and face of the prem right now, are not.
WayneRooneyIsFat
29 Sep 2005, 11:17 PM
Know your history. There used to be a time in the not so distant past when the same was said about the Arsenal. If you have no clue what I am talking about, asking an older Gunner.
"Boring, Boring Arsenal" anyone? How easily we forget.
Are you admitting that Chelsea are boring?
Sure sounds that way.