Any way I can watch the Ohio State game in Bombay?
So I just realized that I will be in India during the Ohio State game this year. My sister is getting married there so I don't really have an option. Obviously, I tried to get her to rescind the invitations, break up with her fiance and/or have the wedding in Ann Arbor but nothing has worked so far.
I have also written multiple letters to Jim Delany asking him to move the game to an earlier point in the season because that seems like a reasonable solution and Jim Delany seems like a reasonable guy. (/too soon?)
This too seems unlikely.
Any Indian mgobloggers have solutions that ideally don't involve live streams?
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:28 PM ^
Just have someone videotape the wedding. She'll understand.
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:31 PM ^
Just wondering, if you aren't interested in a live stream...what are you looking for?
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:43 PM ^
kind of hoping for a bar, it's just not the same watching Denard Robinson ruin michigan's reputation play after play without having someone to high five.
I suppose I can do a live stream if I must though.
October 4th, 2010 at 12:33 AM ^
"It's just not the same watching Denard Robinson ruin michigan's reputation play after play without having someone to high five". English must be your 2nd language.
October 4th, 2010 at 7:19 AM ^
that thread. It was awesome.
October 4th, 2010 at 8:14 AM ^
Then the recommendation is pretty simple, Get it on gameplan online from espn (14.99), invite 20 people over (hopefully al;l michigan fans, with a billion people in India I'm sure you'll find 10 fans) and plus, you can make sure there are no OSU fans around, God Forbid!!
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:32 PM ^
Kidnap the husband to be. Toss him in a room with enough food to last him through bowl season. Release him Jan 10th or so.
http://www.bigtenticket.com/bigten/
ABC/ESPN is also global. I've been to multiple venues in China that had ABC national programming and ESPN. You might want to check around there to find some kind of Western sports bar that has college football games. I'm sure Bombay has at least one or two bars for western expats that streams CFB.
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:32 PM ^
it was Mumbai now.
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:45 PM ^
sadly, yes. but I hate that name. It was Bombay when I lived there.
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:08 PM ^
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:35 PM ^
Do us colonized people do get to have opinions regarding the names of the cities in which we grew up?
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:50 PM ^
I feel you man I spent the summer in "Bengaluru" but everyone (literally, all the poor oppressed former colonialized people) called it Bangalore.
Laziness >>>> false sense of patriotism. It's the same reason no one said "freedom fries".
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:54 PM ^
It's not as though the Indians were all gung ho about changing the name. Most locals consider it to have been a political power play. Not exactly a passionate fight by an overwhelming majority to change the name and exorcise their colonial demons.
But their (Indian cities) renaming was not without controversy. Opinion polls at the time suggested local people were divided over the renaming.
"The weather will be just as sultry in Chennai as it used to be in Madras. But are we Indians so insecure in our independence that we still need to prove to ourselves that we are free?" asked Indian writer and UN diplomat Shashi Tharoor in a newspaper column in 2002.
Other commentators suggested it was a populist measure by local politicians.
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:41 PM ^
other than a live stream, a flux capacitor?or
orrrrr you could hop on denards back and have him run backwards until he goes back in time
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:40 PM ^
Your best bet is to find an online video/audio stream. There will be a ton of streams for this game, so you shouldn't have a problem finding one.
If you don't have access to a computer, then buy a local sim card for your smartphone (with data) and stream the radio feed through that.
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:45 PM ^
Holy Sacred Cow Tavern. Dont order a burger or steak and ask for Vic.
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:49 PM ^
Scroll down to India here and email the relevant people. They'll probably have the best idea.
http://alumni.umich.edu/get-active/clubs-and-affiliates/international-clubs/
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:54 PM ^
Nice, good call man.
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:56 PM ^
Hope it works out for you. I had to travel to Paris (tough life obv) during the weekend of the Iowa game last year and I emailed the Alumni Association president there. He got back to me in 2 days and gave me some tips. They might not have a game watching setup (especially since it'll be what, 1 or 2 AM there at game time?) but hopefully they'll help you figure out a way to watch.
Good luck!
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:52 PM ^
argh sorry. someone please delete.
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:52 PM ^
triple argh. i got click happy.
October 3rd, 2010 at 10:59 PM ^
Just tape it man. Look at it this way. You're in India. The only way I figure you'll find out the score is if you actually go search for it. Or you have some Michigan buddies at the wedding too. Sounds logical that when you get on a plane, the game will be well over with and it's not going to be announced on the plane or anything like that. Sounds like smooth sailing to your living room where you can watch the game in its entirety.
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:12 PM ^
after the game, just download it and watch it. Several sources such as mgovideo and tenyardforum are available
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:51 PM ^
This would work.
October 4th, 2010 at 1:42 AM ^
I second this suggestion. Buy a Slingbox and hook it up to your TV before you leave.
I was in Cairo, Egypt for the entire '07 season, and that's how I watched the games from there (except for the ones that were on BTN, which Comcast didn't carry at the time). You're not going to find a bar to watch American college football at in Bombay, India.
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:54 PM ^
wolverhorn's suggestion of contacting an alumni group is your best bet.
Also I love your login ID : I lived in Bursley too, but I bet you're the only one who misses it!
October 4th, 2010 at 12:32 AM ^
Not sure how to watch in Bombay, but I used to drink a lot of Bombay (gin) while watching The Game. Make sure to drink a lot of water or better yet cranberry juice if you go this route, its murder on the liver.
October 4th, 2010 at 1:11 AM ^
A few years ago I was in Bombay for new years at my Grandma's home and couldn't even find out the score of the national championship game. Needless to say I had to wait until I got back to the states to read about Vince Young beating the Trojans. I couldn't believe there wasn't any mention of it on TV, not that I would have understood a word they were saying.
October 4th, 2010 at 1:43 AM ^
You couldn't get on the Internet?
October 4th, 2010 at 2:55 AM ^
I'm in China for the time being, and I've been trying to catch Michigan games by either
1) going to bars that show college football here. Usually it's on tape delay (there's a 12 hour time difference so games are at 3AM on Sunday morning here). your best bet is to contact someone from the alumni association. Maybe there will be a bar that shows the game, if not, maybe someone owns a slingbox and they will be showing the game at someone's house.
2) do you have comcast? if so, you can access ESPN3 with your comcast account anywhere in the world I believe
3) do you have a vpn? if not, use the umich vpn (search for it online) and use it so all your internet traffic is rerouted through Ann Arbor. This way, you can watch streams such as justin.tv, espn3, etc.
4) streamtorrent
October 4th, 2010 at 7:12 AM ^
I was in Bombay for last year's game and the answer, unfortunately is no. ABC/ ESPN games won't be on their cable/ sattelite TVs, and bars won't be open/ have the game.
You could get a strong internet connection (rich relative, nice hotel, not at a cafe) and stream the game from somewhere (like you would have done in the US watching an ESPNU game).
I emailed the Indian M alumni and their answer was no, but this may have changed in the past year, who knows.
Good luck and please let us know if you can watch the game on a non-internet stream.
October 4th, 2010 at 7:36 AM ^
they will make you look taller. Like Costanza in the indian wedding episode.
October 4th, 2010 at 7:44 AM ^
with the aim of Orion, and the world lies in wondrous momentary calm before calamity, gather unto yourself ten virgins, five each of the poorest and richest families in the land, and summon them to your dinner table.
Feed to them mead wine, pungently seasoned meats cut fresh from the flank of the first born lamb of the season, and fruits and vegetables in every color that can be found. When they have had their fill, summon them to your catacombs and entice them to dance for the memory of your ancestors, who are there buried. If your eldest known patriarch is in a sealed chamber, have it opened by three servants with small picks, and instruct them to work carefully and quietly. Then have his remains brought out to the chamber where your virgins dance.
Observe carefully, and choose out the most beautiful, joyous figure, and ask her to remain as the others are sent away, thanking them each and asking them to remember your family in their nightly blessings. Bring the most beautiful to stand directly before your eldest patriarch's bones. Using the blade with which you slaughtered the lamb, split her skirt from hip to ankle and dress from neck to belly. Command her to lie prostrate before your elder's bones while you hold aloft your family crest and beg the mercy of those that came before you. Assure her that no harm will come to her, and that she must show no fear.
If you have chosen her beauty well, and your virgin shows no fear, you will know it in the soul of your being, as will she. Her hips will begin to rock rhythmically, and her voice will echo before it leaves her mouth, as though it has bounced off the brimstone walls of hell's very abyss. She will command you, take the blade! Plunge it into the earth where your elder's heart once was in his body! Watch now, as blood spills out filling everything! Turning dust to bone and creating in your elder a new flesh! He is reborn, and he brings with him the power of that place from whence he has come!
If you have performed everything properly, and if you have the strength of heart, your patriarch will live once more. He will examine his new bride, sweat-beaded and breathless before him, and then look to you with youthful flesh and eyes as old as all eternity, and smirk a smirk of power.
"You have served your family better than could be hoped," he will utter, his voice roiling for generations. "What is it you want?"
Then, before embarking upon his new life.... you may have your game.