FSW is showing the game again on Friday!!! I sent a request, and they actually responded: -----Original Message----- From: MLSWrap@foxsportsworld.com [mailto:MLSWrap@foxsportsworld.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 4:31 PM Subject: RE: Show us the SJ v LA game again!!!! Due to your and other viewers interest and e-mails, we will be broadcasting the San Jose vs. Los Angeles Playoff match on Friday, November 14th at 3:30 pm PT 6:30 pm ET. Fox Sports World
      Although it might be a slightly condensed version, since the original broadcast (with overtime) lasted 2 hours 15 minutes, while the FSW broadcast will be only 2 hours (it starts at 3:30pm PST, and the Fire-Revolution game starts at 5:30pm PST).       GO EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
my e mail thanks Date: 11/11/2003 9:55:41 PM Eastern Standard Time From: cun245 To: MLSWrap@foxsportsworld.com thanks for showing the San Jose Earthquakes game, hope you can repeat it more then once, the best MLS game ever thanks frank cunha
Got the same response from FSW today. It's officially on the broadcast schedule: http://www.foxsportsla.com/world/pdf/fsw46.pdf This one's definitely making the TiVo list. May I suggest a viewing as a great pre-game event on Saturday! I'm bringing a number of folks who couldn't be there for the Spartan spanking we dished out to the Gals. It'll get us all jazzed up for KC!
      You'd take a condensed version rather than the whole thing?       GO EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
Ah, but Goodsie, it is a question of quality. If the game to be rebroadcast Friday does not have commercials from some totally unrelated radio show beamed in on it, has some decent kind of half-time presentation, and does not have the disjointed connections between video and audio that the broadcast on Sunday on the Shootout Package had, then it is a vast improvement.
I think it's pretty safe to say that Year 1 of the FSW/MLS marriage has been a huge success. Can't wait to see this one.
Also, Goodsie, by removing all of the blanks from the recording of the Shootout Package I had the entire program on tape (SP) and it was about 1 hour, 54 minutes in length.
I can just imagine Bretos/Hopkins pretending to act excited as they already know the outcome. "I think this merits a call to the League Office!!!"
FSW rules DK: Thanks for alerting us. I might have missed the FSW showing on Friday otherwise. Looking forward to seeing the game, which I missed for reasons beyond my control (although I did see the LA vs Quakes first leg at the Almaden Brit). Looking forward to the show. COYEQs
shouldn't this be a 'sticky'? That is what they call a thread that stays at the top of the list, right? Even though I'm a Galaxy fan, this match is definitely worth watching. And if you have any friends who are on the fence about soccer and everytime you've tried to show them a great match, it happened to be a 0:0 snoozer (which is fine for us, but obviously not for those without the vision), bring them along. This match will definitely lean them in the right direction, even if the result went against my team. By the way, congrats Quakes on one of the best comebacks I've ever seen. I felt it coming...
This is truly special news, that a national cable outlet is responding to popular demand to rebroadcast a soccer game a week within it's originally happening. Wow. I've already got it taped but I'll be setting my VCR again just to get a different version, i.e., probably with some English-speaking announcers as opposed to Spanish-speaking ones.
Bump... just flying the flag here. Will agree that this should be sticky'd, and maybe alerts copied over to other relevant forums as well.
just curious Does anyone know if Euros can get FSW? Not that I am in Europe, but I wonder if they can watch the same wide array of football that we can? Or are they pretty much limited to the football played in their own country? That would be a shame.
Re: just curious Don't know if they can or not-- but if it's any indication, if we don't or can't get any of their programming over here in Australia, then I doubt they'd be able to see it in the UK or elsewhere. However, after having seen what Fox Sports 1 & 2's programming schedules are like here, I think they could stand to pick up some of FSW's programming... MLS, hint, hint. Otherwise, I'm led to believe that Europeans do get a wide enough variety of soccer programming.