September 23, 2007
UGA-Bama OT overshadowed by Britney
If you weren't watching the great finish of the Alabama - Georgia game, then you likely missed Mike Patrick's left-field question about Britney Spears.
Classic.
A couple of side notes on this one:
- Major Applewhite may be the one of the better in-game OC's in the country. Too bad he doesn't coach the defense, too.
- Does Mark Richt have the best SEC away game record?
- Alabama seems to be playing above their heads - kudos to Saban.
- Georgia seems to be playing below their potential - sorry, Richt.
Comments:
Ramblin' Gator said:
posted on September 23, 2007 12:24 PM — 74.185.133.40 — link — abuse?
That was just surreal! I know they struggle to fill dead air time, but in a game as exciting as this one was, I'd imagine there had to be at least one obscure player stat to mention immediately before the game winning touchdown, rather than bringing up the human train wreck known by the initials "BS".
posted on September 23, 2007 1:56 PM — 205.188.116.136 — link — abuse?War Eagle Atlanta
said:
Strange. I was watching and don't remember them saying that. Maybe because people WERE TALKING during the broadcast. You know who you are!!!
A shout-out to Wofford College, who beat Appalachian State yesterday. The giant-slayers were themselves slain...by Wofford!!! Okay, I can't believe I'm talking about Appalachian State again...
Tom Blogical
posted on September 23, 2007 1:58 PM — 24.95.77.153 — link — abuse? said:
I know it didn't have anything to do about football, but I thought the whole exchange was hilarious. I thought he came off as he intended--that he was just trying to be funny--which worked for me.
For the most part, I think Mike Patrick does a great job, and could make a snail race exciting.
I can definitely understand where people would not care to hear that kind of stuff though. To each his own, I guess.
ATL-ien said:
posted on September 23, 2007 2:41 PM — 160.10.220.42 — link — abuse?
Who do you know that can start a team full of freshmen and sophmores, throw 2 interceptions, drop tons of passes, have momentum shift in the 4th quarter, miss winning field goals, be underdogs in Tusca-whatever Alabama, and still whip the Alabama dumbass elephants on their home field in front of Saban the Crimson god and the rest of his 90,000 plus Crimson drones. THE GEORGIA DAWGS that who!!!! Aww now the rest of the nation can relax knowing that it is still the same ole Alabama. May the loosing streak start. Oops it has already started. I feel bad because that is all you have to do in the state of Alabama is wait for the Crimson Tide to play. There is nothing else to do there to get their minds off the game, so those people are going to go crazy waiting for next weeks loss to FSU. Well we can now relax that Saban's magical winning hex was short lived and broken by the GA Dawgs.
GA Boy said:
posted on September 23, 2007 3:46 PM — 97.89.29.93 — link — abuse?
This was the most insane comment by a broadcaster I can remember. I love the way Todd Blackledge said, "why do we care?" I think the old perv must have started thinking of Britney in that schoolgirl outfit and just blurted it out. Crazy. Glad the youtube video showed the gamewinner too and not just the comment.
GO DAWGS!!Zac said:
posted on September 23, 2007 3:57 PM — 205.188.116.136 — link — abuse?
ATL-whatever (Post 11), I'm not an AL fan. For that matter, I'm not a GA fan either. I would just like to know how a slug-fest, as in next ESPN Classic, like this one where GA wins by 3 points in OT constitutes a whipping. Can you explain that one to me?
I mean, there's no question GA won this game. The very score proclaiming them the winners is sufficient evidence for that. But, "...still *whip* the dumbass elephants on their home field..."? Aren't we just exaggerating a bit, OK, a LOT?!?
I guess that's the way it works in the South. It doesn't matter how close it was. If you get in the last punch, you've whooped the tar out em.
Zac said:
posted on September 23, 2007 4:31 PM — 205.188.116.136 — link — abuse?
This Britney thing, who cares why he said it? The fact remains it was apropos of nothing. It's just another example of commentators getting board with what they're doing; so, they do something, say something, or refer to something else.
Case in point, Tomcat's complaint (Post 1). No one watching this game gave a flying fu…, ahem, fig about any entertainer male or female at that stage of the game.
In TC's case he was watching Ole Miss at home against FL, behind by 6, and with the ball with less than 3 minutes to play. What happened, the commentators took TC & the rest of those fans watching, elsewhere, including commercial breaks.
On ESPN2, when WVU was ahead of ECU 41-0, ESPN2 took you live to bonus coverage, elsewhere. I won't lie, it was interesting seeing Syracuse giving Louisville more than the Cardinals could handle. That, however, is not the point. ECU/WVU is what was advertised and scheduled for that time slot. It's what I wanted to watch. You'll notice they didn't do the same thing to OSU, who was ahead of NWstrn 45-0 at the half.
ESPN commentators did the same thing Thursday night (MD/WVU), when the game was still undecided. Instead of Britney Spears, it was steroid use in base-ball, Barry Bonds having considered retirement, and the signaling taping scandal. I tuned in to watch the MF'ing-CF-Game!!! NOT to watch idiots speculate, no, BS over what's going on the world of pro-baseball or in the NFL. Excessive commercialism is bad enough. This, this just plain stinks!!!
greg6363 said:
posted on September 23, 2007 5:54 PM — 129.108.122.15 — link — abuse?
Do you think Ron Franklin would have made such a comment during such a dramatic moment of a game? Definitely not. This is why I was disappointed when ESPN took Franklin off of the Saturday night prime time college football broadcast. Patrick doesn't have the passion for the college game that Franklin conveys in his broadcasts. For Patrick, it's just another gig.
posted on September 23, 2007 6:00 PM — 205.188.116.136 — link — abuse? said:
Greg6363: Good point. Ron Franklin should be on the Saturday night A-team for ESPN. I was really disappointed when they broke up him and Mike Gottfried sometime last year.
Franklin went to school at Ole Miss, but you'd never know it during the broadcast of SEC games because he is so objective. I would have sworn he was an Auburn guy, as fairly as he always treats them.
Where was Ron Franklin Saturday night? I was out at a bar watching Auburn on PPV and didn't get to see the whole lineup on ESPN.
FSU_FearTheSpear said:
posted on September 23, 2007 11:33 PM — 74.129.69.31 — link — abuse?
T-Mac have you bought your don't taze me bro T shirt yet?
At post 21..I heard a rumor awhile back as part of the "torture" techniques at Gitmo they subjected detainees to listen to Britney Spears and other hip-hop music for hours...if they don't maybe they should 30 seconds of that garbage would have me talking....
OU Fan said:
posted on September 24, 2007 7:24 AM — 139.139.51.70 — link — abuse?
Tomcat post #1, I must agree. For those who also watched the OU-Tulsa game would have noticed that Notre Dame was the main topic of discussion, not the OU-Tulsa game. It was ridiculous. The camera would focus on the 2 commentators between just about every play so they could talk about Notre Dame. The camera would then switch back to the game after the play had already started. Hell, sometimes there were penalties called during the game that I would not know what they were for because the camera was focused on the commentators and not the game. I wish I could remember those commentators names because they were horrible. And ESPN commentators, for the record the University of Oklahoma and the University of Tulsa are not rivals. BOOMER SOONER!
TampaGator said:
posted on September 24, 2007 11:14 AM — 64.12.116.136 — link — abuse?
Heard the comment--and was thoroughly baffled--no, make that down right annoyed, since it prompted my wife to pepper me with a pile of follow up questions about what Britney Spears had to do with the game ("...is she there?" "...Did she go to UGA or UA?" "...who does she pull for?"...).
Thanks Mike; that's exactly what I wanted to be doing while watching a(n) SEC classic playing itself out in OT--fielding f%&$#n questions about Britney f$%&n Spears!!!
What the hell? We don't have to deal with Brit, and Paris, and all those other immature celebrities enough outside of our Saturdays--now you have to go and corrupt our sacred CFB sanctuary with tabloid nonsense?
That crap belongs on "Extra Extra" or some other ridiculous tabloid show, where they talk ad nauseam about who wore what when, who clashed, who matched, who's in therapy for what, who broke up with whom, and how it's all the "paparazzi's" fault...NOT CFB!
b/t/w: my wife went to bed thinking that Britney went to UGA but pulls for 'bama, because she thinks she looks better in crimson than in red...and that "oops I did it again" was originally titled "damn, I dun did it ag'in", before the record execs edited it...
GO GATORS!!
Lennie Collins
posted on September 24, 2007 12:25 PM — 68.93.134.47 — link — abuse? said:
Hey guys it could have been worst. He could have mentioned O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, George Michael, Boy George, or a college football team that has been making news with off the field problems. I ain't gone say the name cause i don't wanna start sumthin'!
Big Tide said:
posted on September 24, 2007 10:50 PM — 12.208.88.211 — link — abuse?
Congrats to the Bulldogs on a great win. The touchdown pass in OT was perfectly thrown and considering we had the ball for 3 minutes in the first quarter and GA had 9 penalties the better team that night was GA.
Richt should have the Bulldogs sleep at a hotel even when they play between the hedges! How can you explain that insane road record?
Regarding the Britney comment. WTF is right. At that stage of the game with all the excitement, etc. I assumed she must have been at the game or something?? Just crazy.
I love college football!!!!
TE
posted on September 25, 2007 12:37 AM — 70.180.45.10 — link — abuse? said:
Uhh...Not at all...
You guys do not know what was going on in the program after years four and five...
A lot of players...players like Dwayne Bowe...were going to transfer...No ifs, ands, or buts about it...But, he left...
There was constant-and I do mean constant-talk of the NFL...Every offseason...It was a joke. He was a great media handler...far better than Miles is in that department, but Miles and his staff have proven to be far more adept at not only scheming, but game-planning adjustments made during the contest itself.
Saban made some great defensive adjustments at the half, but he was outcoached on several occassions...
Our new defensive coordinator has made our defense infintesmally less complex, yet you actually see our defense performing statistically better than it did during any two or three year period in the 5 Saban was in Baton Rouge. We have our players in our system playing just as good, if not better defense, with less complexity, more checking, and less thinking, which is always helpful when you go from a defense with 100 blitzes like Saban's got.
More kids can contribute far earlier and make a positive impact on that side of the ball when you don't have a defensive playbook the size of the Budget Bill in Congress.
As for offense...Man, I loved Jimbo...It's very difficult to average 30+ points per game for almost 7 years straight in SEC play, but if anything, Crowton has shown-at least thusfar-that he can develop quarterbacks, rotate quarterbacks, and scheme for his opponent just as well-if not better-than Jimbo did.
The number he did on a proud Hokie unit led by Bud Foster says it all...Early Doucet came to the sidelines and told our reporter for the LSU sports network that the opposing DB's told him, "Man, we don't know WHAT ya'll are going to run. Your offensive playcaller is a BEAST."
But, if you ask me, we've got a great hire in Miles. He has made outstanding choices for coordinators, his position coaches can recruit like crazy (The least of the recruiters on this staff is actually Pelini), and we've got better chemistry on this team than at any-and I repeat, ANY-time during the Saban Era.
This team now responds without the F-Bombs, cursing, and verbal vitriolic diatribes Saban was/is known for...
I tend to think that if you can motivate a kid to play like our kids with our talent levels can, and you can do it without that horse manure Saban shovels out, then you're on to something, and players, coaches, and recruits know it, as well...
One other thing about the coaching staff...You'll see our unit stay far more tightly knit than anything Saban ever throws out there...His hallmark now at the Capstone will be to throw the money at the talent to come...Because he works his staff to the bone, cuts them no personal slack, and creates a quite intense work environment that isn't conducive to long-term staff continuity, which doesn't translate to program chemistry if you ask me...
Just one man's observation-with perspective-who once saw what the Bama fans haven't quite noticed just yet...The chinks...
RoverDawg said:
posted on September 25, 2007 1:28 AM — 67.191.195.117 — link — abuse?
Wow, I guess that Saban crap touched a nerve huh? Good to hear actually. I was a wee bit tired of ESPN talking about him. Im just not sold on Mr. Miles yet. It sure will be fun to see yall romp the tide though. I dont think they match up to well at all with ya.
Autigerman said:
posted on September 25, 2007 7:59 AM — 129.61.46.60 — link — abuse?
Roverdawg
Dont you realize you cant make a negitive comment about the almighty Saban. Funny thing is he is the only honest thinking person in the stadium. By his own admission he cant live up to the hype and neither can his team.
Maybe your dawgs will help bring the fans back to earth,however a good old fashion whooping on the plains will definately set them straight
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Tomcat said:
posted on September 23, 2007 11:12 AM — 70.244.249.50 — link — abuse?Do What? Thanks Kevin just another fine example of espn/abc B/S. Was trying to watch part of Ole Miss vs UF game, Miss had the ball down by 6 with about 2:40 left in the game when they went somewhere else then showed comercials, then some sportscasters comments,then more commercials while the game was in progress, didnt see the end, they kept going to Ball vs Neb and Syracuse vs Louisville which had both ended already.
Alot of times these jokers are not even paying attention to the game they are broadcasting, switching over to some Boston Red Sox game during college football-Hey I dont care, if I wanted to watch baseball, I would have tuned that in, I'm trying to watch football.Save all that other junk for Halftime and Post Game reports.