Satellite necessary to see the Dallas Cowboys play their final game in Texas Stadium
Friday, December 19th, 2008
The Dallas Cowboys style themselves as America’s Team, but Saturday night they’ll have a more modest title: the sports bar’s team.
That’s when Dallas will play its biggest game of the season thus far against Baltimore. The game is key for the Cowboys as they are fighting to qualify for the National Football League playoffs. But perhaps there’s a bigger incentive for Dallas: This game is the team’s final regular season game in fabled Texas Stadium.
Time Warner Cable, the city’s cable provider, is one of five major cable companies in the nation that doesn’t carry the NFL Network.
And while Time Warner and the NFL point fingers at each other, the reality is that people who don’t have either DirecTV or Dish Network will have to find other ways to watch the game.”We still don’t know why the NFL Network won’t let us carry them,” said Time Warner spokeswoman Vicki Triplett from her office in Corpus Christi. “We want to carry it. We made several offers, and they were all turned down.”
“Our latest one was to carry it on pay-per-view and give them 100 percent of the revenue. They turned us down.”
Sports bars and restaurants that offer the NFL Network stand to benefit.
“It’s good for business, so (if an agreement) doesn’t happen anytime soon, we won’t complain,” said Mike Amparan, the owner of a West Side sports bar, The Brew. “It’s going to be packed” Saturday.


