PBS vs. The Patriots...You make the call !

VERSUS


Dear PBS:

On Sunday night, you will begin airing your new adaptation of "Jane Eyre". It starts at 9pm EST nationwide.

Please make sure that you note that it is NOT supported by viewers like me or anyone I know.

First of all, when I had to read it in high school, I found it terminally boring. I got up to page 6, then bought Cliff's Notes. Cliff seemed equally bored. The only worse book was "The Mill on the Floss" which , if I remember correctly, has to do with dental care products.

Second, and this is most important:
Try to understand this, stupid, that you're putting it on during the last hour of The New England Patriots (Yea) vs. The Indianapolis Colts (Boo) AFC Championship game...Brady vs. Manning...the best of the best.....and unless Charlotte Bronte (who wrote the novel in 1847) is a linebacker (well, they could bill her as 'Bronte' Nagurski), pretty much nobody in Boston, Indianapolis or anywhere else will give a damn!

Here in the Boston area, it is my sincere hope that even Cambridge elites will leap from their Bierkenstocks at the thought of turning off the game.

Now I admit that you put on some pretty good shows which I thoroughly enjoy, and some pretty boring ones like "Eye on Kumquats" or other twaddle like that , but one has to ask, "Do you have your head up your ass?"

Are you trying to break up families by taking away their quality time sitting together in front of the screen in either mutual sorrow, mutual unbridled happiness or mutual nervousness as they are rooting the hometown team on to victory ....and the wife says, "Honey, lets turn off the end of the game and watch Jane Eyre". If my wife said that to me, I'd have her committed.

( Heh...."watch Jane Eyre"....sounds like the old jokes; Did you ever see a cigar box, a kitchen sink,etc??? )

I hope you've thought ahead and sold the major sponsorship to a firm of divorce attorneys!
This show proudly sponsored by the national divorce law firm of Cohen, O'Leary, Callahan and Johnson and their 4000 attorneys, but don't call now as they're all watching the end of the game ......and also viewers like you , well maybe not you because you're watching the game too!

How can you expect people to support you when you make dumb decisions like this? The start of a show you probably paid a fortune for is starting when? You guys really have to get out into the real world more often.

Y'know, deep down I always wondered what happened after page 6, but c'est le vie! Your timing stinks. At my house, Charlotte Bronte is coming over to party wearing a Patriots jersey and bringing the nachos and dip. Ill ask her!

Thank you and GO PATRIOTS,
Jake the MassPube