Football Redneck Style

 Another nice October Fall Day was upon us and it was time for another Green Bay Packer Football game. We set up our TV, antenna(redneck style), chairs, snacks, and umbrella, let the game begin. We were joined by some friends for the game and it was a little cool but sunny making it a comfortable day. We even had some other visitors come and join us for the first time, Woody the Wood Duck and Malfoyd the Mallard.

Woody and Malfoyd

They only stayed long enough for a few chips and then were on their way. They also noted how we had our antenna set up to watch the game. We don't have satellite or cable hookup so we need to use rabbit ear antennas and with the new digital signal it can be difficult to get a strong signal so we need to come up with ways to get a good signal for a specific channel. As you can see in our photo of our football party we had to set up our antenna redneck style.

Green Bay vs. Miami

The instructions for a proper redneck antenna set up are:  Rabbit ears, old plastic bucket, long enough coaxial cable, and a homemade umbrella stand. First put bucket upside down on umbrella stand and then balance rabbit ears on bucket and adjust antenna until you get a strong enough signal to watch and hear the entire game. CAUTION: If you have two dogs like us be always aware that during an exciting play dogs will get excited too and run around causing antenna system to fly everywhere and a fast and precise set up will be needed. After the main game ends and you want to watch another game on another channel arrangements will have to be taken at that time.
After an afternoon of football we retired to the indoors of the houseboat and ordered pizza to be delivered and enjoyed a cool, Fall evening only houseboaters could enjoy.
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