PB Unleashed: BYU Game Watch Parties Open Thread

by Nestor on Sep 11, 2008 5:00 PM PDT in Football

Our thoughts and prayers are with Class of 66 of any other Bruins who might be trying to get out of the way of Ike. So 66 wanted to know what time the game is on Sat. The kickoff is scheduled for 12:30 pm PST and it will be televised nationally by Versus (Channel 603 on DirecTV). You can check out all the official notes on the game over here:

Photo Credit: uclafan11

I am sure many of you will want to join together with the fellow alums/Bruins in your area to watch the game. Here are some locations on Bruin get together across the nation:

Alums in NYC will be watching Southern Hospitality. Southern Hospitality located at 1460 Second Avenue at 76th street. Go here to RSVP.
Alums in Washington, DC will be watching the game at Bar Louie, 701 7th St., NW #D (Chinatown-Gallery Place Metro Station). You can RSVP by emailing here.
In Chicago, the Bruins watch their games at Joe's Bar, located at 940 W. Weed St. Here are the details.
Bay Area Bruins are putting together three parties. One is going to be at the Stadium Pub in East Bay at 1420 Lincoln Avenue, Walnut Creek. If you want to join this party please RSVP to Rich here. There is going to be another one at Palo Alto at the New Old Pro Sports Bar at 541 Ramona Ave. You can RSVP to Jerry here. And if you are in San Francisco, you can head over to Pete's Tavern at 128 King St. RSVP to Tanya & Henry here or here.
Down the 101, South Bay Bruins are watching their games at The Tavern on Main St. in El Segundo: 123 Main St. between Grand Ave. and El Segundo Blvd. Game time 12:30pm - get there ealry for best seats in front plasma screens.
Over at the OC huddle up with other Bruins at Dave & Buster’s at The Block at Orange, 20 City Boulevard West, Orange, CA 92868. RSVP info here.

As usual, those are the get-togethers we know of. For more on alumni club football watching parties visit this site. If you have info on where the alumni group are watching the games in your town, post the info here. Also we will serve up the usual reminder that even though these get togethers are hosted by alums - of course, they are open to every member of Bruin Nation.

For rest of you if you are wondering about game watching info in your area, this would be the thread to post your questions, info or organize parties within your area. Consider this a game watching party organizing open thread.

GO BRUINS.

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I'm up in Santa Cruz visiting family...

Does anyone know any places near monterey or San Jose or better yet within Santa Cruz that are showing the game on Versus, or even bars out. Hopefully, Somewhere they’re not all just Cal fans.

by UCLABRU1 on Sep 11, 2008 5:45 PM PDT reply actions

Versus

So the game is being broadcast by Versus? Damn…

by bruin8uclap on Sep 11, 2008 6:35 PM PDT reply actions

Yeah

Not fun.

by Nestor on Sep 11, 2008 6:37 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah and even more LAME...

There is a Versus HD channel but they have chosen to broadcast a women’s golf tournament until 3pm, then join our game in progress. Shady…

by uclafan11 on Sep 11, 2008 7:35 PM PDT up reply actions

oh and thanks Nestor

for using another one of my photos! I love that one – I am pretty sure the helmet and mouthpiece belong to Aaron Perez (It was next to him on the ground where he was practice-kicking)

GO BRUINS!!!

by uclafan11 on Sep 11, 2008 7:37 PM PDT up reply actions

Programming question

This question is addressed to all of you who reside on the East coast and have experience with Comcast. Do they offer a package for UCLA football? Basketball? I tried calling without much success (I don’t think the lady had much prior knowledge of the existence a sport called Football).

It would be wonderful if they have a subscription package available to those of us living in exile. Furthermore, if indeed I do find a way to follow my bruins live, any and all faithful Bruin fans are welcome to come over – I’m in Sewickley outside Pittsburgh for now, kindly msg me for more details.

by eubruin on Sep 11, 2008 7:01 PM PDT reply actions

Yes

They don’t specifically offer a UCLA package. However, I highly recommend getting the Fox Sports college package which will ensure you get all the FSN broadcast of Pac-10 basketball/football games. This way you should be mostly set. You will just have to hit the bars for ABC’s regional broadcast of football games (or CBS’s regional broadcast of Ben Ball). But its a great deal. I have been very happy with it.

by Nestor on Sep 11, 2008 7:04 PM PDT up reply actions

Exactly...

With Comcast, you should be fine if you grab the Fox Sports package (around $10/month). Most Comcast plans also include Versus, so between the two you should be able to locate almost every game for football and basketball (I can’t remember a game that I wasn’t able to find on Comcast between those two options and the regular channels).

by cabz on Sep 11, 2008 11:07 PM PDT up reply actions

yup

Do note that Comcast does not offer the college sports package universally (my former central Virginia home only had the package offered last spring), though I would imagine that the Pittsburgh metro area would likely have the package. My recollection was that Comcast charged $6/month for the package.

To follow along with the spirit of this thread, I may make it to the East Bay/BAB gathering tomorrow.

by bruinhoo on Sep 12, 2008 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions

hoo

where are you these days? Mid Atlantic or the West Coast?

by Nestor on Sep 13, 2008 5:00 AM PDT up reply actions

visiting family in NorCal right now

by bruinhoo on Sep 13, 2008 9:11 AM PDT up reply actions

Hawaii meetup?

info would be greatly appreciated

by the.dude.abides on Sep 11, 2008 7:35 PM PDT reply actions

Pasadena meetup?

info is appreciated!

by bruinfan627 on Sep 11, 2008 10:38 PM PDT reply actions

Yardhouse @ old town Pasadena!

A few of us will be going there, they have the Versus channel.

by bruin0709 on Sep 11, 2008 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions

UCLA games on the East Coast

Hey everyone.. my first comment on Bruins Nation(been lurking for a few months now). Just wanted to second Nestor’s suggestion for getting Fox College Sports to watch UCLA games on the East Coast. Also something good to check on is if you can get access to ESPN360.com. You need to be using an authorized internet service provider (who pays ESPN for the privilege). You can check on the ESPN360.com website to see if Comcast is an authorized ISP. With this, you can watch all of the college football games on the ESPN/ABC networks via the internet.

Go Bruins!

by Bruin1996 on Sep 11, 2008 10:41 PM PDT reply actions

comcast doesnt do espn360…they are like the only major ISP that doesnt offer it.

however if you are a recent alumni and still have your ucla login ID (like your email address) then you can log into the ucla internet with the VPN server and then espn 360 will work, since the site works if you use the on-campus internet.

the VPN server makes your internet act like the campus internet (although nowhere as fast) but gives you access to stuff like the library databases, educational websites that ucla has subscriptions for….and ESPN 360.

however shouldnt really matter this week as im pertty sure our game isnt being broadcast on 360, its on versus only.

by jtthirtyfour on Sep 11, 2008 11:29 PM PDT up reply actions

DirecTV Sports package

This package gives you the Fox Sports channels, and Versus. &10 per month if you have DirecTV. We finally dumped Comcast except for internet this spring. Can’t wait for FIOS to get to my neighborhood, so I can drop Comcast completely.

Bob O. (Signholder #3)

by TuneMan7 on Sep 12, 2008 7:37 AM PDT reply actions