Finally!
This past Saturday marks the official* start of the 2008 college football season. Those of you who weren’t watching the 56-3 lashing of Fort Valley St by Valdosta St. in the highly touted Division II match up, that means your season probably officially begins for you on Thursday around 6pm EST. Cable service provides quite the buffet of games for your enjoyment, and for most, the creme of the crop 7:30pm EST showdown between North Carolina State and South Carolina on ESPN.
The only problem was the game I needed to see was only being shown on ESPN360, ESPN‘s online video streaming site. This presented quite a problem since ESPN360 isn’t your typical subscription based website where a user can simply sign up. Instead, it is more akin to a premium cable channel where your provider must first agree to pay to carry the service before it is ever offered to the customer.
Unfortunately for me, Bright House Networks, our local cable and internet provider here in Orlando doesn’t have an agreement in place to offer ESPN360. This leaves me stuck without being able to watch my beloved Hurricanes take on Charleston Southern in their season opener on Thursday night.