Some are genuine football fans deeply passionate about thegame and wanting to see every minute of football action because it will be 7 long months until the season begins again (heavy sigh).
Once you seeThe Sopranos or a baseball, football or basketball game in high def, filling a big, sharp screen, you'll wince at having to go back to fuzzy regular TV.
Each of them is at least 50 years old (sorry, Bowl Championship Series--start a real college football playoff and the finals will become an instant must-see game).
Thursday Night Football and Sunday Night Footballsee more social conversation when a game features a team from the east coast, and less when a team is from the west coast.
Football Association spokesman Adrian Bevington said his organisation "would obviously like to seethegame broadcast to as many people as possible" but insisted the matter was out of the FA's hands.
He could also receive a retrospective punishment from the English Football Association for a dangerous tackle on Alex Song earlier in thegame which match officials failed to see.