Primetime that Isn't so Primetime

People who know me would say that I like sports.  It doesn't matter which sport, except for NASCAR and is that really a sport, I will sit down to watch it.  I have even been able to muster up a liking for Soccer thanks to CNN, one of the two channels that are in English. I have been watching, Manchester City, who I took to the Champion's League Championship in Fifa 06, is sitting pretty in 2nd place at the moment in the Premier League and looking like they have a great shot at winning the whole thing.  But enough of that, I still hold Football as my favorite sport, although it is quite tough to actually watch the game.

Now I do not have a problem finding the games to watch.  Thanks to sites like justin.tv and myp2p.eu I have been able to find almost any game that I want to watch.  I also have to give thanks to the people who actually stream the games as well, not just the places that give the links needed to watch the games.  My problem lies within the time frame of the games I want to watch.

In Switzerland we are 7 hours ahead of CST.  So when it is 7 PM here, it is 12 PM in the Twin Cities.  That means that any early game I can watch without having to lose any sleep.  The 3 o'clock games (10 PM here) garner some trouble just because they seem to take longer then the early games and can last longer pushing between 1 and 2 AM here.  Games like this are not terrible but when you have to get up and let a dog out at 6:30 in the morning, you are feeling it.  7 PM games are utterly disastrous to try and watch.  I am a Steeler fan and when they played on opening night, I stayed up until 2 AM just to catch the beginning of it, and then went to bed at halftime which ended up being 4 AM here.  It hurt, physically hurt to stay up that late.

I bring this up because this next week is going to be disastrous for me.  It begins on Saturday when the Cyclones take on the Wildcats in the afternoon time slot.  Not bad easy to stay up for.  But then the Steelers play the Chargers in the Sunday night game.  The Vikings play the Packers, as if you didn't know, Monday night, and the Huskers play the Tigers Thursday night...AHHHHHHHH!!! People might confuse me for a zombie Friday at German class.

As you can see, Primetime television doesn't work for me.  It turns me into an insomniac that will have to start drinking more and more coffee, instant coffee that is.