Direct TV To Show NFL Network On Blimp Over Blacked Out Cities

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Don't Have NFL Network? Go Outside, Look Up, Watch Game on DirecTV Blimp
Published 12/12/2007 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
Filed under: 49ers, Bengals, Broncos, Texans, NFL Media Watch, Tampa Bay, NFL NetworkThere's a new option for people who want to watch the games on NFL Network but don't have it on their cable systems: Go outside and watch it being broadcast on a blimp. Seriously. Michael Hiestand of USA Today reports that DirecTV will show games on a giant video screen on the side of a blimp that will fly above areas with cable operators that don't have NFL Network. The blimp can fly as low as 1,000 feet and has a 70x30-foot screen, which DirecTV says is "the largest aerial digital screen." It will fly over the Tampa-St. Petersburg ...

Look Up In The Sky! It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's An NFL-Network Blimp?
Published 12/12/2007 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
This is just about the craziest marketing move I've ever come across (it probably ranks right behind the time I went to a Demolition Derby and handed out tickets to a JMU Football game). The NFL-Network and DirecTV are providing a huge service to those cities that can't view games due to blackouts. A blimp with a giant video screen airing the games for people in the streets. From Sports by Brooks via USA Today... DirecTV, a satellite TV provider, will announce Wednesday the most imaginative tactic in the hubbub over how viewers might get NFL games that air on the NFL Network. DirecTV will show them on the giant video screen on its blimp as it flies above ...

WTF: DirecTV Will Air NFL Network Games From Blimps
Published 12/12/2007 at FanIQ Blog
According to Michael Heistand of USA Today (via Sports by Brooks) DirecTV will air NFL Network games over blacked out cities by way of blimp. Yes, blimp. I'm dumbfounded. "DirecTV, a satellite TV provider, will announce Wednesday the most imaginative tactic in the hubbub over how viewers might get NFL games that air on the NFL Network. DirecTV will show them on the giant video screen on its blimp as it flies above towns whose cable operators don't carry the league's channel. Don't laugh. TV sports on a blimp probably will be as good as other platforms for TV sports — such as the tiny screens on ...

They're calling in a blimp to show the NFL ...
Published 12/12/2007 by Leitch at Deadspin
They're calling in a blimp to show the NFL Network game this Thursday over blacked-out cities. It has come to this. [Sports By Brooks]

Thursday’s Basically Top Five Blog Links
Published 12/13/2007 by Jamie Mottram at Mr. Irrelevant
Check out ’80s night at the Phone Booth! In other DC-related “news,” Maryland is terrible right now (more on that later this morning), Domi.Nick play O-U-T (NY shows off one of his dunk contest dunks) and Smoot’s Smack bars get the Bog treatment (Portis says, “It’s got viagra in it.”). Now, onto the national sports blogging “news” of the day … What to expect from the Mitchell Report. There will be five levels of player names revealed, from Serafini to (potentially) Jeter. The NFL Network knows no bounds. You may not be able to watch games on your TV, but ...

How Good (or Bad) is Vince Young? Jury Still Out
Published 12/15/2007 by Cecilio's Scribe at The Legend of Cecilio Guante
Did the 'Ole EA Curse Get Vince, Too? It's amazing how a single game can turn a nation of football fans onto a particular topic. Yet, I was among the obviously thousands of sports fans who read and heard (but, of course, did not see) that Mario Williams basically owned the Broncos on Thursday night and ...