My Super Bowl XLV Champion Green Bay Packers start their next championship season on Thursday, September 8.
On the same evening, Obama is delivering a speech to a joint session of Congress.
Here we go again.
Let's see. Should I watch my Packers and the NFL season begin, or should I watch Obama blather about jobs, babbling from his teleprompters, in yet another lame prime time speech?
Ha! I crack myself up!
I'm ready for some football!
According to Milwaukee's NBC affiliate, Obama's speech won't conflict with the game.
A White House spokesman said Thursday that President Barack Obama's planned speech to Congress to unveil his economic agenda will be completed before the game between the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints next Thursday at Lambeau Field.
White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer told The Associated Press the speech would be completed in time. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
While Obama's speech averts a conflict with the kickoff, left unresolved is how NBC, which is carrying the game, will handle the pregame festivities. The NFL and NBC are planning a kickoff concert and other pregame activities to mark the opening of the NFL season.
Steve Wexler, vice president of radio and TV operations for Journal Broadcast Group, said Thursday that WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) had said earlier that he had asked that both Obama's speech and the football game be made available to NBC affiliates across the country. That way, each station can make a decision on which event to broadcast.
In the case of the Milwaukee market, Wexler said WTMJ would show the game. The president's speech would be carried on a secondary digital channel, he said.
"This is an NBC game, not a WTMJ game," Wexler said. "We know the NFL and the White House were talking last night about what they will do."
That problem apparently has been solved.
Earlier, Greg Aiello, an NFL spokesman, said in an email to the Journal Sentinel: "We're preparing for the game and a big night at Lambeau Field and in Green Bay. We do not yet know NBC's plans for covering the president's speech."
Obama's speech definitely will not conflict with my pregame plans in any way.
Thursday will be an Obama-free zone for me.
Can't wait!
1 comment:
I think Obama still believes that he can sway the masses with platitudes and lofty rhetoric. It might have won him the election in 2008, but now that he's actually got a record to run on....not so much.
This "jobs speech" might have had some merit and meaning (if it had been given in March 2009)
Go PACK!!!
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