Ever try to listen to the game AT the game these days?

Pausing the DVR works well, with a little trial and error. It took me three tries to synch up the Ducks-Call game on TV with Jerry Allen's call on XM Radio.

Right you are, Headbutt, about WHFS. Not a whisper from the tallest point for many miles in College Park.

In-venue radio is something that's still gaining momentum. Several tennis tournaments now do it, renting or loaning the radios. Some golf tourneys, I hear, also do it. Only issue there is to make sure the receivers don't have speakers - headphones only.

At the Super Bowl, they've been giving away crappy little radios and even worst headphones to every fan in the stadium. Last time I tried to listen was in Detroit, and the noise made it impossible to hear a thing 80% of the time.

And here's a story from that game that's more embarrassing than an extra-long delay. During the last of the pre-game show and the first few minutes of the game, the channel that was supposed to be feeding the Seattle play-by-play was, instead, feeing the signal from KIRO's sister station, which is conservative talk. So, instead of Steve Raible and Warren Moon, fans in Motown got to almost-hear the 'best' of Rush Limbaugh. It was corrected about ten minutes after kickoff -- after I (a former employee of the flagship station) called and finally convinced an old colleague I wasn't making it up. Maybe now they'll take the in-venue feeds from the respective booths instead of an ISDN back-feed from the respective cities.