You know you might be a FSW addict if...

I think base model DirecTV is $41.99. Additional channels cost a little more, then its another $12 to add the first premium pack, like the sports pack which includes Gol and FSC, and each additional pack (like HBO, Showtime, etc.) is incrementally cheaper. For the maximum channel availability (Total Choice Premier), its $93.99. If you buy a DVR for under $200, its an additional $5 per month for using TiVo through DirecTV, but that's waived if you're already at the Total Choice Premier level.

So minimum for DirecTV with GolTV might be something like $53.99, plus $5 for TiVo.

http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/packages/base.dsp

 

...if waking up at 6:30am on a Saturday morning after being out until 4am just so you have enough time to make coffee, visit the toilet and be "ready" to watch the preview show, sounds like a completely normal activity.

 

. . . when someone admits to STILL not having TiVo, you silently conclude "so I guess he gets up at 4:15 a.m. for the early EPL match," and you are filled with admiration for his commitment to soccer, even though you haven't confirmed he even likes soccer.

. . . your idea of a productive evening is watching and deleting more soccer than your TiVo recorded that day, because you're "catching up"

 

...You can't get over the fact that the guy on The "Chaser" ad has an awful haircut

...When your Dad asks you what the FA Cup is, you respond by saying. "The world's oldest knockout competition."

...You can't get over the fact that the guy on the Bowflex ad that doesn't eat sandwiches is the whitest person on earth.

...You block out Tuesday's from 5-6 for the French Soccer Highlights Show.

...You find yourself yearning for British commentators for all sporting events.

 

hahaha this thread has made me laugh out loud.

some of my favorites

.....If you think to yourself regurly "Debt free saved my life.....and my marriage" even if you arent married.


...You can't get over the fact that the guy on The "Chaser" ad has an awful haircut

...When your Dad asks you what the FA Cup is, you respond by saying. "The world's oldest knockout competition."


. . you're thinking about getting drunk just to see if Chaser works

 

...On the Getting Rich ad, you wonder how long Bruce Berman can be up for the title of "Entrepeneur of The Year"

...On the same ad, you have the hand motions of the last guy to talk memorized.

...You notice that JSL twitches his eyebrow.

 

... you start wondering if Bob would ditch his wife for that Bowflex grandma?

... you know which French & German clubs would qualify for Champions League spots if the season ended today but couldn't name which six teams are leading the NBA divisions.

... you can't identify pictures of the managers of the Dodgers(Jim Tracey), Indians (Eric Wedge), or Phillies(Charlie Manuel) but can easily spot Fulham's Chris Coleman, Everton's David Moyes or Bolton's Sam Allardyce.

... you wonder how Melissa Pace ever saw your unsightly belly fat.

 

* You tune in at 10:01 p.m. Eastern every week night just to see if Michelle Lissel is wearing "that shoulderless thing."

* You don't need an alarm clock on Saturday morning, you just wake up at 7:29 to flip on the early morning Premiership match.

* You watch FSW Report on Mondays and have a betting pool on which team name Bobby McMahon is going to forget this week.

* Every thing you do in life, you term the most epic thing yet.

* You promise your wife you are going to do 1,200 things around the house in the next year, knowing damn well you'll be lucky to get past 100.

* You sent them an e-mail in vehement opposition of the ticker, and it was more than 4 pages long.

* You keep a running count of the number of times Max Bretos has messed up and said, "Fox Sports Channel," or "Fox Soccer World," in the last month.

 

Dayom! Yeah that ticker all but dissapeared not 3 days after the "A huge NO to FSC ticker" thread went up; I'm glad they got the message

Have yall noticed that that diet pill commercial with the dude in it keeps the camera on him a little too long after he's done talking, and he goes into this creepy little smile before the camera moves off of him?? Yeah.. he gives me nightmares.

 

Actually I saw the ticker last night. Perhaps they are just airing it at different times.

All the people in those creepy little commericals have creepy little smiles. The 36venture . com ones are the worst. Those guys are the aliens from "V."

 

YIKES!
You're right. They are from "V".

 

... the introduction of a new commercial ("Magna Pro", today) has you staring intently at the screen and almost reaching for the phone

 

...You get pissed that the first few chords of the new FSC theme music sounds remarkably similar (if not the same) as Fox's NFL theme music.

...You long for the days of yesteryear (well actually last season) when EPL games were done by a lone broadcaster. Funny how a soccer player, excuse me, football player can ruin a broadcast just as easily as Dan Deirdorf ruins football or Tim McCarver ruins baseball.

...Like a junkie, you feel like after watching an early morning game, you have recieved your fix by 9:40am on Saturdays and now you can go about your day. Perish those weekends when there are no live EPL or FA Cup games. One German and one Argentinian game do not cut it.

 

You'd know your wife was a FSW addict if she posted a new memo on the fridge every day saying:

. . .
Took out trash
Folded laundry
Fixed gutters
mowed lawn

Things done around the house: 45
Things left to do: 1,155
Things to do per day: 4.11 Enjoy.

 

. . . you're a bit jealous of a guy who can get up at 7:29, not 4:29, to watch the first match live. Maybe living in California isn't that great after all. Except for "Monday Night Football," which you can watch during lunch.

. . . you start wondering when baseball will move to a February-August schedule to avoid conflicting with MLS opening day and the playoff run.

. . . your thoughts on revamping MLB's schedule has you thinking about ways that Major League Baseball could move to a single table and relegate all the small market teams.

. . . you no longer can respect a baseball game where both teams reach 3 runs. Hell, it was a goalfest by the 4th inning at 3-2 and that was before the interval!

 

This is actually a Champions League addiction post but the FSW addiction thread needs to get a bump.

Anyway, you know you might be a Champions League addict if

... you were at Easter Mass and when the horns, strings, timpani, and choir started the recessional hymn, you thought for a moment that they were going to play the Champions League anthem.

 

...if you bump the thread just so everyone can know how big of a FSC Addict you are.

 

This argument was made, quite convicingly, by a sports radio personality in Maimi for a long time. Before I was really that much of a soccer fan, he had me convinced it was the way to go. But that was in the midst of the Yankees winning the series every year. Now that things have evened out a little bit, I think it would be a tough sell.

 

You bought a DVR/Tivo just to freeze-frame the Bowflex GILF

You hum F-S-C! over and over while driving home from work

On any given day, you can recite who's on top of the table in the Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1, and the Bundesliga, even though you might hate them all

You can never make it to work on time, but somehow, amazingly, you're up at 4:30 am on Saturdays to watch mid-table matches

You noticed that Matt Brown steals the PA's cupcake in the opening FFF sequence

You would never lower yourself to use the word "soccer"

You can name all 20 Premiership teams without a pen and paper, even when you're drunk

You know Steven is married and drools all over the back pages girl, but you've still wondered if he was gay

You've assigned favorite Premiership teams to other members of your household just so you can have an excuse to watch matches of all the Premiership teams, without having to hear it from your wife/girlfriend

You've memorized the FSW Report time slots and know how many times per day it's on

You want to give Darren Huckerby a big hug because you feel bad that he's going to be in the Coca-Cola league next year

You've imagined chopping Enzyte Bob's head off, setting it on fire, and having a football match with the severed head

You've actually come to enjoy FanZone

You know the idiosyncrasies and on-field habits of all the Premiership referees

You don't miss hockey

You haven't watched the Playboy Channel in months

You mope around the house whenever the Premiership takes a weekend off

You've actually given thought as to which Premiership team has the ugliest players

and lastly...

You can actually understand Bobby McMahon

 

Greatest.first.post.ever


but I'm sure you are sockpuppet for somebody.

 

- You still refer to the channel as Fox Sports World

- You miss the "technical brilliance" of the Dutch Eriedivisie

- You find yourself saying things like "cheeky" and "he fancy's a go at it" when watching baseball

- You still use VIP Communications to call your friends overseas to talk about the match that happened a month ago, even if you have no friends overseas.

 

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA

 

Strong comeback for the thread (thanks Fat & Ugly) ... but what's a Bowflex GILF?