{"id":37864,"date":"2013-10-07T10:24:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37864"},"modified":"2013-10-07T10:24:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:24:35","slug":"afn-cancels-sports-for-the-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37864","title":{"rendered":"AFN cancels sports for the troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twist sends us a link to Stars & Stripes<\/a> which reports that the Armed Forces network has cancelled sports programming to troops overseas because of the government shutdown. <\/p>\n

The American Forces Network, reduced to just a news channel this week by the government shutdown, says it has no plans to screen football, baseball or other sports until things get back to normal.<\/p>\n

The hopes of sports fans \u2014 raised this week when AFN started showing ESPN\u2019s “SportsCenter” on the news channel \u2014 were dashed in an email from AFN on Friday that ruled out screening actual sports events during the shutdown.<\/p>\n

Navy Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist John Harrington, an AFN spokesman, said in an email that the broadcaster\u2019s lawyers had determined there is no sound policy or legal basis to air sports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You might think I’m an agent of the Taliban or something, but this news gets a “meh” from me. [In a crotchety old man voice] In my day we always got the games a week after they played, a week after we knew the scores – the reason I quit watching sports. Training and preparation didn’t suffer a whit. I mean, I know getting live sports is a real morale builder (we got the Super Bowl live the last year I was in Germany at like 2 o’clock in the morning) and I’m sure the President feels your pain and commiserates with you while he watches the games live. But, you know, you guys are getting paid (sometime) so you have to made to feel the pain. Everybody hurts for this shutdown, just be grateful that this is the best pain they could come up with for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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