Good news, John Kerry’s threats of Senate hearings forced the NFL to agree to simulcast the Patriots drive to 16-0 on not one but two networks:

The New England Patriots’ shot at history Saturday night will be available for every household in the country with a television after months of wrangling.

The game against the New York Giants, in which the Patriots could become the first NFL team to go 16-0 in the regular season, was originally scheduled to be shown only on the NFL Network, which is available in fewer than 40 percent of the nation’s homes with TVs.

But the league announced Wednesday that the NFL Network feed will be simulcast on NBC and CBS. It’s a major concession by league officials, who repeatedly said they would not show the game anywhere but the NFL Network. The NFL had faced mounting pressure from politicians in recent weeks to make the game available to more viewers.

This will be the first three-network simulcast in NFL history and the first simulcast of any kind of an NFL game since the first Super Bowl in 1967, when CBS and NBC both televised the first meeting of the champions of the newly merged National Football League and American Football League.  

I hope this means that when the Cubs finally make it to the World Series, they will be simulcast on all four broadcast networks, since that will obviously have more national significance than a team perhaps tying an NFL record by going undefeated… don’t get me wrong, it still won’t have much national significance, it’ll just have more than the Patriots/Giants game. 

I’m glad that congress has solved every other problem facing the country, since they were able to focus on such a pressing matter.

The best news to come out of this fiasco is that CBS will be forced to pre-empt “Good Night and Good Luck.”