Sunday football has drunk the environmental kool aid. Over the last weekend while NBC (owned by General Electric) was doing a pre-game show, they turned off the lights in the commentary booth and began describing its mission statement of doing its part to help global warming.
So, what NBC is essentially saying is, "Watch your big screen plasma in the dark." I thought I wasn't supposed to watch tv in the dark. Isn't it supposed to ruin my eyes? I know I was told not to sit to close to television sets because that would ruin my eyes. Thats why I traded in my knob operated 13 inch black and white rabbit eared tv for my 60" HD DLP Flat screen with 1080i.
What's a fan to do?
What if I already converted my lighting to the horrendous glow of energy saving bulbs? Do I still need to turn them off even though I am only running 15 watts for a 100 watt bulb? Isn't it enough that I have to subject myself to the awful output of color by these bulbs? Conversely my wife tells me she would rather sit in a dark room with the tv off as along as she didn't have to watch or listen to football on Sundays.
Interesting.
I suppose the logical conclusion to this, using the main steam media model of, "tell a lie long enough and it becomes truth," global warming is going to shift all football games to morning and afternoons and only on days that are sunny and in stadiums that have retractable roofs or no roofs at all. "It's better for our environment to to not have stadium lights on during a night game," is the logical reason.
In the end, the NFL could care less about global warming. In fact most cold weather teams look forward to late season games in their home (cold air) stadiums because its a detriment to the visitors. The NFL cares about cash. The ones who get hurt are not the fans who are in a kajillion watt lit stadium getting their information from a billion watt speaker system and a jumbo tron, its us 'little' people who have to put up dorks trying to save a species one light bulb at a time.
BTW, do you think I have to take the bulb out of my microwave too? Microwaved pizza just doesn't taste the same unless I can see the cheese melting just right?
So, what NBC is essentially saying is, "Watch your big screen plasma in the dark." I thought I wasn't supposed to watch tv in the dark. Isn't it supposed to ruin my eyes? I know I was told not to sit to close to television sets because that would ruin my eyes. Thats why I traded in my knob operated 13 inch black and white rabbit eared tv for my 60" HD DLP Flat screen with 1080i.
What's a fan to do?
What if I already converted my lighting to the horrendous glow of energy saving bulbs? Do I still need to turn them off even though I am only running 15 watts for a 100 watt bulb? Isn't it enough that I have to subject myself to the awful output of color by these bulbs? Conversely my wife tells me she would rather sit in a dark room with the tv off as along as she didn't have to watch or listen to football on Sundays.
Interesting.
I suppose the logical conclusion to this, using the main steam media model of, "tell a lie long enough and it becomes truth," global warming is going to shift all football games to morning and afternoons and only on days that are sunny and in stadiums that have retractable roofs or no roofs at all. "It's better for our environment to to not have stadium lights on during a night game," is the logical reason.
In the end, the NFL could care less about global warming. In fact most cold weather teams look forward to late season games in their home (cold air) stadiums because its a detriment to the visitors. The NFL cares about cash. The ones who get hurt are not the fans who are in a kajillion watt lit stadium getting their information from a billion watt speaker system and a jumbo tron, its us 'little' people who have to put up dorks trying to save a species one light bulb at a time.
BTW, do you think I have to take the bulb out of my microwave too? Microwaved pizza just doesn't taste the same unless I can see the cheese melting just right?
