Enjoy that big game tonight.

Er, well, maybe not.

About 60 percent of you won't be able to see the 10-1 Dallas Cowboys host the 10-1 Green Bay Packers in the Game of the Century, Version 3.0.

Blame the big, bad, greedy NFL for that.

In fact, blame everything on the National Football League while you are at it.

It's OK. It can take it.

Global warming. Gas prices. Tensions in the Middle East. Marie Osmond.

Why not?

The fact of the matter is, there are some cracks forming in what was once the impenetrable public relations armor of the NFL.

The league is facing one issue after another and is trying to avoid sinking faster thanWillie Parker in the Heinz Field slop.

Spygate. Thugs running amok. Fields that resemble mud wrestling pits.

It's not a good time for the No Fun League.

Perhaps the biggest issue, at least tonight, is the NFL Network Conundrum.

What is this? The NHL, where only about three homes in the continental United States can see a game on the Versus Network?

It's a crime that a game as big and with as much fan interest as the Cowboys-Packers clash tonight will go unseen by two-thirds of the football watching population.

The reason is two-fold. No. 1, most cable companies don't include the NFL Network on its basic package. No. 2, some of the ones that do won't fork out the extra money the NFL demands to televise those games.

Instead, you get some old NFL Films footage with a scrawl across the top of the screen informing you why you're not seeing a game from this millennium.

This needs to be fixed. If the NFL Network is going to televise games that only two out of five people can see from their sofa, it should be the Dolphins vs. the Jets or something.

Certainly not Favre vs.Romo.

The only thing worse would be having to watch another game played at Heinz Field.

The league and Pittsburgh should be embarrassed by its Muddy, er, Monday night show.

It made for some classic moments, though, like the punt that stuck into the field like a javelin.

Hey, at least we found Duce Staley. It seems he had been hiding under the Steelers logo at midfield for three seasons until he was uncovered by the grounds crew with pitch forks.

Hello, Duce.

But while we found Duce, we seemed to have lost the 45-yard-line and all the hash marks. That was a little disconcerting.

The players never found their footing.

I don't even think Secretariat could have run effectively in that slop.

About 50 years ago, players would have found no problem with the conditions. But it isn't 50 years ago. Current players are not equipped to play in such muck.

But I bet Jerome Bettis could have been effective on that field.

My only lament was not being able to see The Bus roll through the mire.

And I'm still looking for the 45-yard-line.