There's a lot of great sports action available on the tube here in Cincinnati.
ESPN has the 'titanic struggle' between the Braves and Astros in the NLDS.
FOX and CBS had a couple of games on the TV at 1pm - Chicago at Cleveland and New England in Atlanta.
Now there is one game on FOX, the Philadelphia Eagles at the Dallas Cowboys... but where's the huge fan base?
Especially since the Indianapolis Colts are in San Francisco at the same time.
To me, that would be like carrying the Northwestern/Illinois game instead of the Ohio State/Michigan game here.
Here's what I don't get:
The local media heavily covers Ohio State football. Columbus is two hours away (driving time).
The local media heavily covers Kentucky basketball as well. Lexington is two hours away.
BUT, even though Indianapolis is also two hours away, the Colts get almost no coverage here. Neither do the Pacers.
You think that with a 4-0 record (as of this moment) and the QB genius that is Peyton Manning, FiveNineTwelveAndNineteen would root for the blue.
However, does Columbus like the Bengals a lot? Do they even really care for the Reds? Do the Capital City stations even take a moment to mention the University of Cincinnati?
Go down to Lexington: do they show clips of (my good friend) Bradley Glatthaar scoring a touchdown for the football Bearcats? I thought not.
So what is CBS showing now? Paid programming, championship skiing, and the CBS Evening News! WOW! Who needs Kings Island to have excitement?!
Sure..... they could show a Colts game, but its 'bad for business reasons.'
If people haven't been near Paul Brown Stadium (OR RCA Dome) on early Sunday, there's tons of people willing to spend money for football. Are football fans bad for business?!
Similar to some selections on FOX Saturday Baseball... the two choices are the Cubs and the Brewers or the Cardinals and the Braves... Oddly enough, we love the Cubs, even though they haven't won crap for almost 100 years, so we pick them and the suddenly-good-after-years-of anonyminity Derek Lee. We could show the consistently good Cardinals and Albert Pujols... but he's a bathroom word, and they last won it all in the 1980s. Do the damn math, FOX 19.
Yes, the Bengals are great... but there's another NFL team of such high (I argue even higher) caliber just two hours away from Cincinnati... and they're just as newsworthy as the Nuts or Wildcats could ever be.
