So.
For those of you that know me (which, I can safely say, is likely not very many), you'll know that I'm a very large fan of a good fight. (For those 90% of you that didn't know that...SURPRISE.)
Therefore, you can understand my excitement when I found out that CBS would be airing a live broadcast of the mixed martial arts competition in primetime this past Saturday. I tell ya, I was pretty geeked up about it as soon as I saw the commercial last Sunday. (As someone who was pretty much glued to SpikeTV late at night when SASUKE or Kinniku BANZUKE wasn't on G4 back when I was at college for the fights, you can probably tell how excited I was to be able to see the awesome mano-e-mano, or in some cases mano-e-foot, action.)
So I look forward to this all week, and I sit through whatever show was on before the fights were about to start (I think it was Numb3rs). Then I'm positively jazzed and sitting there wide-eyed ready for the show to start....and I'm greeted with: "The following is a special presentation of *insert station name here*."
And a telethon came on.
I. Was. PISSED. (My mom thought it was funny as hell.)
Honestly, I don't know why they did this. The one time, the ONE DAY they had LIVE FIGHTS ON PRIMETIME, they have a damn telethon. Now, don't get me wrong, raising money for sick kids is a good thing.
BUT THE FIGHTS. The glorious possibility of bone-breaking, slobber-knocking action with one-round KO potential galore. THEY TOOK IT FROM ME.
I almost cried in a corner, I was so sad.
Yes, I realize that I can likely look it up on YouTube. But it's not the same. I wanted to see it Saturday. I was forced to sit and take solace in an old copy of Duet Magazine I bought in Chicago (Japanophiles, you know what I'm talking about).
*sigh* Have any of you gone through a similar experience? Where you've been completely hyped for something only to have it slip away?
