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Kenny F'ing Powers

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I have a fucking wedding for some fucking asshole cousin in my wife's family that I barely know.

Wedding is Saturday at 5pm.

I called the venue, and the only tv they have is in the coatroom.

I'm willing to bring an iPad and be that asshole, I really don't care about these people's opinion at all.

What are my streaming options? HELP!!
 

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The only thing worse than people that plan weddings during the playoffs are the ones that ruin your long weekend.

CBSsports.com should have a stream.
 

Kenny F'ing Powers

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You guys are awesome.

Cbssports.com it is. We can spend the rest of the thread talking about anything OCD or Marbleheader want.
 

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Be that guy. When I was stationed at Ft Knox after Desert Storm a lifetime ago, one of the guys in my platoon was getting married the same day as the now infamous Duke/Kentucky game where Christian Laettner hit that last second shot in the East Regional final game. I brought a small portable b/w tv I would bring to the field during training, and almost every guy in the place was huddled around the TV.. the bride and her mom were pissed, but the game was worth the drama. I assure you, there will be guys who will find out about you having the game and drinks will be bought for you in gratitude as they get to escape the chicken dance.
 

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If you really care about what people think, the NFL mobile app will give you play by play text / graphics. You can also listen to the radio broadcast with headphones via the app.
 

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I attended a wedding once on the first day of the Stanley Cup finals. I spent the majority of the reception in the country club locker room watching the game.

Be that guy.
 

johnmd20

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Bring this.

My sister got married in January(in Chicago) 5 years ago, the Saturday the Ravens lost to the Steelers. It was in a hotel, so it was easy to check the scores in the rooms if you wanted and the Ravens game was pretty good. But I will submit that I left Chicago very early the next day to get home for the Pats game. They lost to the Jets, tho. But people do have weddings in July, this is nothing like doing it on Labor Day or July 4th or New Years Eve.
 

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I have a fucking wedding for some fucking asshole cousin in my wife's family that I barely know.

Wedding is Saturday at 5pm.

I called the venue, and the only tv they have is in the coatroom.

I'm willing to bring an iPad and be that asshole, I really don't care about these people's opinion at all.

What are my streaming options? HELP!!
You would love to go to the wedding, but your kid is sick. It is pretty decent of you to stay home with the sick kid so your wife can go to the wedding and have fun.

;)
 

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Be that guy. When I was stationed at Ft Knox after Desert Storm a lifetime ago, one of the guys in my platoon was getting married the same day as the now infamous Duke/Kentucky game where Christian Laettner hit that last second shot in the East Regional final game. I brought a small portable b/w tv I would bring to the field during training, and almost every guy in the place was huddled around the TV.. the bride and her mom were pissed, but the game was worth the drama. I assure you, there will be guys who will find out about you having the game and drinks will be bought for you in gratitude as they get to escape the chicken dance.
Buying drinks for him? Who doesn't do an open bar these days?
 

kelpapa

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Slingbox.

I'm out of market, and setting up a Slingbox at my parents house has changed how I watch sports. You can watch it on your phone.
 

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Wife's asshole cousin you barely know? You'll barely be missed. The calculation is entirely on the wife's response. The primary players in the wedding won't care. You are likely under 1% of the total event, but if you have 30 people huddled around your tablet, you become a problem. I say, slip out.

If the ceremony is at five you are in trouble. If the reception is at 5 I'd say you could easily bag that, especially if you could dvr it (the game, not the reception), talk to the old ladies from 5-7:30 and then slip off for an hour and 10 minutes to watch it.

Hang out in the coatroom?
 
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A bunch of friends of mine had tickets to a concert during game 7 in '03 at my theater. They bought the tickets weeks earlier so they had no way of knowing. Instead of trying to choose one or the other one of them bought a tiny handheld TV that was able to get the Fox broadcast and brought it with them into the theater.
I remember when I left work that night after watching the game up in the projection booth seeing it smashed into a million pieces on the sidewalk in front of the main doors.
 

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A bunch of friends of mine had tickets to a concert during game 7 in '03 at my theater. They bought the tickets weeks earlier so they had no way of knowing. Instead of trying to choose one or the other one of them bought a tiny handheld TV that was able to get the Fox broadcast and brought it with them into the theater.
I remember when I left work that night after watching the game up in the projection booth seeing it smashed into a million pieces on the sidewalk in front of the main doors.
The schedule for the MLB playoffs is released months in advance. There's no excuse for anyone buying concert tickets that conflict with a possible playoff if there's even a remote chance your team (I'm assuming Sox here) has a shot that year.
 

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If you really care about what people think, the NFL mobile app will give you play by play text / graphics. You can also listen to the radio broadcast with headphones via the app.
If you have Verizon for cell service the games are streamed on the NFL mobile app. It was the main reason I kept Verizon on my work phone.
 

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I had to attend a cousins wedding out at some country club in LA the day of the Pats-Raiders playoff in 2002, aka the Game In The Snow. My friend Kevin was on the phone with me the entire second half, with me hiding in the coat check room, delivering play-by-play. I can still remember him saying "Brady got hit and fumbled the ball, the Raiders have it, (sigh) I guess that's it... Wait, the ref is saying something..."

My wife was so angry I had to sleep on the tiny couch in the hotel room that night. I wouldn't change a thing.
 

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My cousin got married during the Jags-Pats divisional game in the 18/1 season. Needless to say I skipped oht at kickoff. Had already purchased beer and food waiting for me in the hotel room. Zero regrets.
 

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My brother's wife's sister invited me to her wedding on October 11, 2003. Pedro, Zimmer, Clemens, Manny, Nelson, Groundskeeper, and who ever that Yankee outfielder was who Pedro plunked.

The reception started right as the game was starting. I had scoped out the joint and found a big screen TV in a conference room just a little down the hall. Word got around that the game was on down there and was a rotation of guys checking the game and relaying the score to the reception. The mother of the bride was trying to shut it down, but was having little success. After Pedro plunked What's His Name, a bunch of folks got up to check out the game. Mother of the Bride came in and tried to turn it off, scolding the folks watching. Whatever.

I will never forget when some guy ran into the reception and yelled "Manny and Clemens are ducking it out in the mound!" Three quarters of the room stood up and ran down to the TV. Mother of the Bride sort of gave up at that point.


The next year a Yankee fan colleague of mine got married during the 19-8 game. He was kind of obnoxious during the wedding, but all winter long I kept reminding him that the Sox had not lost since he'd been married.
 

luckiestman

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You're a nicer guy than I am. No way in hell I would be going to that wedding.
 

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I am fortunate to be part of a family/social group that understands that you need to accommodate those that are interested in sporting events/playoffs when planning an event. It certainly helps that many of the women in the family have become Patriots fans over the past 15 years. I have a sister-in-law that used to attempt to limit television at her parties and until she found that no one was showing up during the playoffs.
 

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Gotta go old school. Radio with earphone. (assuming you're local enough to get a station). when I was 12, a friend and I listened to the Bud Harrelson-Pete Rose brawl on our radios while in Temple during the holidays. Could modernize with bluetooth and a small earpiece. I always thought "completely blowing of family for sports" was bad karma.
 

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I am fortunate to be part of a family/social group that understands that you need to accommodate those that are interested in sporting events/playoffs when planning an event. It certainly helps that many of the women in the family have become Patriots fans over the past 15 years. I have a sister-in-law that used to attempt to limit television at her parties and until she found that no one was showing up during the playoffs.
I'm with you here. It is a random thing when a person is forced to sleep on a couch because they want to watch a game, no matter the circumstances. Let people have their passions, what's the difference? It's not like these are games in October.
 

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I was in a wedding in Mass in October of 2004, during Game 3 of the ALDS. I mean honestly, who plans a wedding in October in Mass?? It was at the Elks club and the only t.v. we could watch was in the bar that we weren't allowed into because we weren't members, so we watched through a crack in the door. There were t.v.'s in the ballroom but the bride was adamant that she didn't want them on. As the game progressed, the bride was getting more and more upset that almost everyone was standing around the doorway. We said turn the t.v. on and everyone will come back in. She finally relented just in time to watch Papi's game winning homer.
 

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My brother's wife's sister invited me to her wedding on October 11, 2003. Pedro, Zimmer, Clemens, Manny, Nelson, Groundskeeper, and who ever that Yankee outfielder was who Pedro plunked.

The reception started right as the game was starting. I had scoped out the joint and found a big screen TV in a conference room just a little down the hall. Word got around that the game was on down there and was a rotation of guys checking the game and relaying the score to the reception. The mother of the bride was trying to shut it down, but was having little success. After Pedro plunked What's His Name, a bunch of folks got up to check out the game. Mother of the Bride came in and tried to turn it off, scolding the folks watching. Whatever.

I will never forget when some guy ran into the reception and yelled "Manny and Clemens are ducking it out in the mound!" Three quarters of the room stood up and ran down to the TV. Mother of the Bride sort of gave up at that point.


The next year a Yankee fan colleague of mine got married during the 19-8 game. He was kind of obnoxious during the wedding, but all winter long I kept reminding him that the Sox had not lost since he'd been married.

Funny, I was at weddings during both those games too.
 

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There is nothin wrong with scheduling a wedding in January but you need to be self aware enough to understand the risk. These people are only idiots/assholes if they get upset about the huge crowd that you will attract to watch the game with you
 

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I've had to play a lot of gigs during playoff games. Funniest damn thing to see every guy on stage squinting to see the TV behind the bar. For game seven of the '04 ALCS we were about 5 songs into a set when the frontman heard the Sox had the bases loaded and said fuck this, we're taking a break. Got off just in time to see Damon's GS. Nobody was listening to us anyway.
 

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I was in a wedding in Mass in October of 2004, during Game 3 of the ALDS. I mean honestly, who plans a wedding in October in Mass?? It was at the Elks club and the only t.v. we could watch was in the bar that we weren't allowed into because we weren't members, so we watched through a crack in the door. There were t.v.'s in the ballroom but the bride was adamant that she didn't want them on. As the game progressed, the bride was getting more and more upset that almost everyone was standing around the doorway. We said turn the t.v. on and everyone will come back in. She finally relented just in time to watch Papi's game winning homer.
I mean, this is just jackass behavior. This is someone who you are obviously very close to. You can't fucking tear yourself apart from a game 3? In an Division series in which they were up 2-0? There comes a time when you need to chill out with your Fandom. This was one of those times.
 

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I mean, this is just jackass behavior. This is someone who you are obviously very close to. You can't fucking tear yourself apart from a game 3? In an Division series in which they were up 2-0? There comes a time when you need to chill out with your Fandom. This was one of those times.
I actually was pretty well behaved, when I said we I meant most of the guests....like 80% of them.
 

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Much like last year, I'm on the road during the Pats game during the Ravens thing. I had to watch it in a few different ways to see it. Glad they won...

This year will be the same and that sucks.
 

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I'm in Puerto Vallarta for a wedding on Saturday. Luckily the bride's family are Pats fans so I'm sure something will be figured out.
 

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I'm willing to bring an iPad and be that asshole, I really don't care about these people's opinion at all.
Access to the game will make you a hero not an asshole.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nflstreams/

This subreddit always has a good mix of streams to choose from including mobile links for tablet or phone.

Some of the streams are even streamed through youtube's live video service. I watched the game last night in HD on my phone without issue.

Check it out today for one of the games so you can get an idea on what kind of streams will work on your iPad.
 
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Was at a wedding during a Sox playoff game for one of my good friends back in 2010. We just had the DJ making regular play-by-play style updates between songs. He was a little annoyed at first, since it kind of messed with the flow of his phat beats, but he then realized that he quickly became the center of the right kind of attention, and really got into it.