Last Saturday was my 37th birthday and we celebrated it how I wanted to celebrate it and then some. For months, I've been looking forward to Copa America Centenario which, if you didn't know, is an international one-time tournament with countries from all of the Americas to celebrate CONMEBOL (South American Football Confederation) turning 100 years old. The kick-off game was last Friday night between USA and Columbia.
USA may have lost that match 2-0, but I still really enjoyed the game particularly since for the first time ever I got to watch from home. We signed up with Sling TV which is a really awesome app. We get to try if for free for 7 days and then it's only $20 per month for the basic package (a trimmed-down version of a standard cable package). For an additional $5 per month, I got the sports add-on package which included Univision Deportes Network. All of the Copa America games will be aired on this channel. The only caveat is that it's in Spanish, but that doesn't really matter since I don't care to listen to commentators anyway.
Fox has the broadcasting rights to Copa America and the only way that I could find to get the channel was to get cable or satellite. Fox does have an app called Fox Soccer2Go for $20 per month which supposedly allows you to watch sports games broadcast by Fox on your phone or tablet. However, I read a bunch of reviews and nobody likes it. Complaints are everywhere that the app freezes or kicks you out almost all the time. And, I didn't want to watch it on a small screen anyway, let alone if it is going to be so buggy that I'll miss parts of the games.
So, I'm really liking Sling TV. Unlike, Fox Socer2Go, I can watch a game live or I can stream it later. Plus, Jodi likes it too since it also has HGTV. And, when we're done with it, we can cancel it. This is how easy it's supposed to be, but never is, with cable or satellite.
Sorry for the infomercial, but clearly I have enjoyed this new concept of having affordable, no-nonsense "cable".
My birthday celebration was awesome from even the night before. Friday night, we had brats and dogs on the grill and ate outside enjoying the beautiful weather we have been having. Jodi worked her butt off making 20 lbs of fajitas that we had on Saturday and were amazingly good. I will forever judge all other fajitas by this new standard. Then, she surprised me with a mulberry cobbler that her and the children picked from our mulberry trees. If you've never had it, you're missing out. We watched four more games between Saturday and Sunday and still had some time to piddle around with a few things that I wanted to do.
Overall, it was a very relaxing and delicious weekend enjoying some great international soccer from the comforts of my own home. Even Cute (our cat) got in on the action. Here she is getting extremely upset about a bad call the referee made.
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| Cute and I share a birthday. I forgot to mention that she turned 2 on Saturday. |
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