Live!

I am not sure what it is about an event being live, but when I watch something that is over, I am not as interested as when I watch it live.  There are obvious exceptions to this.  Generally, however, it's true.  I watched much of the L'ville/ND bball game the other night while flipping channels.  When the Mavs game ended, though, and L'ville was up 7 with about six minutes left, I made the decision to start watching my UNLV Rebels take on UNM, which I was recording.  I did not watch it with nearly as much attention as I would have if it was live.  I did not know the outcome (it was actually not over when I started it), yet simply knowing that what I was watching was not "live" made a difference.  Then, when I found out L'ville/ND went to 5OT, I recorded the replay to watch what I missed, but it was unwatchable.  I just didn't care.  It's an interesting phenomenon - at least it's interesting to me.