HANC Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Holy crap.... is anyone else getting sick and tired of the same ol' song and dance before EVERY bowl game thus far.... and EVERY half-time show... I get so pissed at listening to these clowns talk about USC and Michigan... I have watched most of the bowl coverage, but not all, have I missed anything on the Cotton Bowl? You have two great programs competing in the Cotton bowl, and these dumb asses can't even mention it !!! Damn these idiots !!!! Quote Link to comment
Dan_F_30 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I agree wholeheartedly. Quote Link to comment
BIGREDIOWAN Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 There just a damn bunch of morons that's all............ Quote Link to comment
admo Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I havent been watching but I can only imagine. Would get tiresome quickly. Quote Link to comment
Nicole Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I live on ESPN...and it does make me angry a lot of the time... ...yet i cant seem to change the channel?? probably cause deep down i HOPE to hear about the Huskers...or something good... Quote Link to comment
huskeraddict Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I live on ESPN...and it does make me angry a lot of the time... ...yet i cant seem to change the channel?? probably cause deep down i HOPE to hear about the Huskers...or something good... My life story. I sit and watch College Gameday and College Football Final HOPING to hear about NU but knowing they'll only get a 2 minute highlight or nothing at all. Quote Link to comment
dbetz23 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 One of the reasons they are doing that is because ABC (ESPN) lost rights to the other BCS games. They gotta hype the only big bowl they have. Quote Link to comment
DJR313 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Holy crap.... is anyone else getting sick and tired of the same ol' song and dance before EVERY bowl game thus far.... and EVERY half-time show... I get so pissed at listening to these clowns talk about USC and Michigan... I have watched most of the bowl coverage, but not all, have I missed anything on the Cotton Bowl? You have two great programs competing in the Cotton bowl, and these dumb asses can't even mention it !!! Damn these idiots !!!! They give this game more pub than the national title game. I guess it makes sense by what DBetz just said, still kind of annoying. Wisconsin-Arkansas is a very intriguing match up that also gets little to no mention. Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 ESPN might be shunning the Cotton Bowl because it's on Fox. I'm kinda pissed about it cuz our Fox station blows. With my luck, the station will go out due to snow or the lack of intelligence running the program. Quote Link to comment
huskerdude171 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 F**k ESPN, who needs 'em. Quote Link to comment
Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Holy crap.... is anyone else getting sick and tired of the same ol' song and dance before EVERY bowl game thus far.... and EVERY half-time show... I get so pissed at listening to these clowns talk about USC and Michigan... I have watched most of the bowl coverage, but not all, have I missed anything on the Cotton Bowl? You have two great programs competing in the Cotton bowl, and these dumb asses can't even mention it !!! Damn these idiots !!!! Yes........and I pray each time that they dont show a USC-Nebraska highlight.......and yet I believe that takes up the majority of the USC highlights.... Quote Link to comment
California Husker Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Okay, here comes yet another one of my infamous rants. Alright I warned you… Here goes…. This dissing of games not covered by ESPN is nothing new. All of you Husker fans old enough to remember the 1997 season think back and take a walk down memory lane with me. ESPN/ABC was going to air the Rose Bowl that year as well. Early in the season, Nebraska was ranked #1, but there was no chance of the Huskers ending up on ESPN/ABC. That year the Orange Bowl (Nebraska’s conference tie-in) was to be aired on CBS. So early in the year ESPN ran a hype campaign about who should be #1 between the winner of the Michigan vs. Penn State game (I am pretty sure that was the match-up). Oh, good `ol ESPN seemed to conveniently forget that there was already a #1 team that was not playing in that particular match-up. But, like I mentioned before, ESPN was not going to get a chance to air the game that Nebraska was going to play in if they won their conference and remained #1. IMO this was a blatant, purposeful, premeditated attempt to screw Nebraska for the sake of ratings. And if you all remember, lo and behold, after Michigan and Penn State played, Michigan jumped Nebraska and was crowned the new #1 team. If you don’t think that was orchestrated by ESPN, then you probably believe the Warren report’s lone gunman theory. Another bi-product of ESPN/ABC’s shameless self-promotion was the way they screwed Peyton Manning out of the Heisman Trophy. Once again, ESPN/ABC was going to show the Rose Bowl, and Peyton Manning was going to play in the Sugar or Orange Bowl. So about mid-season ESPN began showing highlights of all of Charles Woodson’s offensive plays (they knew a pure defensive player would never win the Heisman). In contrast, whenever they showed Peyton Manning highlights, they would show him getting sacked or throwing an interception. Never mind that Manning put up incredible numbers that should have made him the clear favorite for the Heisman; ESPN/ABC wanted to hype the “National Championship game, featuring Heisman Trophy winner Charles Woodson.” I must have seen a hundred highlights of Woodson running back punts for TD’s. Want to know the funny thing? He only returned one. That’s right, for all the Woodson punt return highlights he only returned ONE FREAKING PUNT for a TD. If that is not enough evidence of the ESPN/ABC self promotion, when some people had the audacity to suggest that if Nebraska won the Orange Bowl and Michigan won the Rose Bowl, perhaps they should split the national title, all of the hacks on ESPN began the mantra “If a team is #1 and they win, then you have to leave them #1.” I must have heard a dozen ESPN idiot analyst make that or similar remarks to the effect that if Michigan won out they deserved the national title. Funny thing is, where was the outcry for fairness earlier in the season when Nebraska was #1 and the sportswriters jumped Michigan over us? Oh, I forgot, that didn’t suit ESPN/ABC’s shameless attempts to bolster the ratings for the game they were going to televise. Well, that’s my rant against ESPN/ABC…at least for now…I’ve already weighed in with my feelings about Mark May and that whining little piece of sh*t Herbstiet. Quote Link to comment
Touchdown Tommie Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Okay, here comes yet another one of my infamous rants. Alright I warned you… Here goes…. This dissing of games not covered by ESPN is nothing new. All of you Husker fans old enough to remember the 1997 season think back and take a walk down memory lane with me. ESPN/ABC was going to air the Rose Bowl that year as well. Early in the season, Nebraska was ranked #1, but there was no chance of the Huskers ending up on ESPN/ABC. That year the Orange Bowl (Nebraska’s conference tie-in) was to be aired on CBS. So early in the year ESPN ran a hype campaign about who should be #1 between the winner of the Michigan vs. Penn State game (I am pretty sure that was the match-up). Oh, good `ol ESPN seemed to conveniently forget that there was already a #1 team that was not playing in that particular match-up. But, like I mentioned before, ESPN was not going to get a chance to air the game that Nebraska was going to play in if they won their conference and remained #1. IMO this was a blatant, purposeful, premeditated attempt to screw Nebraska for the sake of ratings. And if you all remember, lo and behold, after Michigan and Penn State played, Michigan jumped Nebraska and was crowned the new #1 team. If you don’t think that was orchestrated by ESPN, then you probably believe the Warren report’s lone gunman theory. Another bi-product of ESPN/ABC’s shameless self-promotion was the way they screwed Peyton Manning out of the Heisman Trophy. Once again, ESPN/ABC was going to show the Rose Bowl, and Peyton Manning was going to play in the Sugar or Orange Bowl. So about mid-season ESPN began showing highlights of all of Charles Woodson’s offensive plays (they knew a pure defensive player would never win the Heisman). In contrast, whenever they showed Peyton Manning highlights, they would show him getting sacked or throwing an interception. Never mind that Manning put up incredible numbers that should have made him the clear favorite for the Heisman; ESPN/ABC wanted to hype the “National Championship game, featuring Heisman Trophy winner Charles Woodson.” I must have seen a hundred highlights of Woodson running back punts for TD’s. Want to know the funny thing? He only returned one. That’s right, for all the Woodson punt return highlights he only returned ONE FREAKING PUNT for a TD. If that is not enough evidence of the ESPN/ABC self promotion, when some people had the audacity to suggest that if Nebraska won the Orange Bowl and Michigan won the Rose Bowl, perhaps they should split the national title, all of the hacks on ESPN began the mantra “If a team is #1 and they win, then you have to leave them #1.” I must have heard a dozen ESPN idiot analyst make that or similar remarks to the effect that if Michigan won out they deserved the national title. Funny thing is, where was the outcry for fairness earlier in the season when Nebraska was #1 and the sportswriters jumped Michigan over us? Oh, I forgot, that didn’t suit ESPN/ABC’s shameless attempts to bolster the ratings for the game they were going to televise. Well, that’s my rant against ESPN/ABC…at least for now…I’ve already weighed in with my feelings about Mark May and that whining little piece of sh*t Herbstiet. Nice post! ESPN is the biggest monopoly in television.... Quote Link to comment
Nigel87 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Yeah I've had it with ESPN/ABC, which is why I'm glad the Cotton Bowl is on Fox. I've also got the bad habit of having watching for hours for just a brief mention of the 'Skers. Quote Link to comment
DJR313 Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Okay, here comes yet another one of my infamous rants. Alright I warned you… You weren't joking! Quote Link to comment
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