It being really cold and my being a poor college student, I decided to just resign myself to my fate and asked my dad to send me score updates via text.
The scores were inspiring enough-- we were keeping pace with the Canadians in hockey. But then Dad starts throwing in extras like "they're wearing 1980 throwback uniforms," "our goalie is having the game of his life," "huge fight at the end of the 2nd." Fuck fuck fuck. How am I missing this? Then he drops the bomb: "This is the best game I've seen since 1980." Fuuuuck!
Right then in the middle of watching Family Guy on Fox with everyone else, on Taco Night of all nights, I just jumped up, explained I couldn't just sit there, and left. I powerwalked down to the near-campus area and walked up and down the street till I found somewhere with the game on (which took a long while) and-- no joke-- stood outside in the freezing cold on the phone with my dad through the entirety of the third.
Christ, it was so worth it.
I didn't get to see the hockey game though.
In this particular case especially it's hard to object to a torrent. It sounds like he buys TV, and there are just some gaps in the coverage offered, and he'd only be using torrents to help fill in the gaps. What harm does that do?