All I wanted to do yesterday was watch the UEFA Championship soccer match between Manchester United and Chelsea. I thought I had done everything right. When I sat down to eat breakfast yesterday I remembered the game would be on (a small victory right there) so I found the game in the guide on ESPN2HD and I set our Comcast DVR to record it. I then spent the rest of a hectic work day looking forward to watching some kick ass soccer and trying to avoid any and all websites that might ruin the game for me. I managed to cock this up when I looked at MSNBC at about 3:30 p.m. and saw a headline that declared the winner. I didn’t read the article and I didn’t see the score so I pretended it didn’t happen and soldiered on.

Fast foward about 6 hours, all roomates are home, beers are open, the DVR is fired up and we are learning the ins and out of the pitch (World speak for soccer field) from guys with awesome accents. We see Ronaldo score on a sweet ass header, I still don’t know how he whips his head around like that, and then right before the half Lampard, the hero from Chelsea’s semi-final match, scores to tie things up. We watch the second half and see a great battle of missed opportunities and post shots. As the second half draws to a close Honcho explains, mostly to me, that there are two guaranteed overtimes of 15 minutes and after that if it is still tied it goes to penalty kicks.

Regulation ends and I grab the remote to fast forward through the bullshit and get to overtime. The progess bar pops up and after some quick computing by Honcho and I we both realize that we are completely and totally fucked. The progress bar indicates we are 2 hours and 11 minutes into a 2 hour and 35 minute recording. That means there are 24 minutes left in the recording but at least 30 minutes of overtime to play. We managed to see the first overtime before the recording came to an end.

You can’t make me believe for one goddamn second that Comcast doesn’t have the power to tell that DVR on the fly that the program is going to go longer and extend the recording. Why the fuck do I now have to record the hour of bullshit after any sporting event “just in case”. Maybe I can’t blame them for not giving a shit about the largest sporting event in the world. I had to sit through 17 minutes of dipshits discussing the NBA and MLB before SportsCenter even showed the highlights of the game. If it had been the Super Bowl, the World Series or the NBA Finals that fucking box would have kept recording.

So once again Comcast you have fucked me and per your usual practice you didn’t even have the common courtesty to give me a reach around.