I DON'T CARE WHAT FUCKING COLLEGE HE WENT TO!!!

Good God, I just want to watch the Patriots / Jets game in peace, on the couch with Mrs R, and that ASSHOLE announcer on CBS just CANNOT mention even ONE player's name, even ONE time, without adding "out of (college name here)" EVEN IF THE GUY'S BEEN IN THE NFL FOR TWENTY-FOUR YEARS.

Christ, it's annoying.

I don't give a red rat's ass where any of those guys went to college! Just tell me who has the fucking ball, and how far he fucking ran with it, would you?

Why do the announcers do that, anyway?

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my alma mater?

:P

:hi:

To give other people who went to those colleges a warm glow?

I'm asking seriously. I still don't get it.

'Course, I never went to college, so there are a lot of things I don't understand.

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made me blush. He wasn't a nice guy on campus to the people who had to teach him.

As for having pride in my alma mater, I'm too indie (and too busy) to give a damn about all the social goings-on on campus. I've never even been to a football game there. :shrug: Never paid a penny to the alumni group. Never done much but go to class and leave campus as soon as I could.

But I am sure that your theory is correct in many cases. It gives other alums a "warm glow" to hear their college mentioned. Not me, but I'm sure that it has that effect on die-hard fans of college football teams and alumni.

We kicked their butts pretty thoroughly, but Brett made a couple of plays that made us all go :wow:

Some of them are barely literate for chrissakes.

scholar, and there are a few QBs who graduated from Harvard that did very well in school. Most of them, however, you're right.

The NCAA at least for the "money" sports is such a hypocritical organization.

There was one guy, Robert Smith, a running back for the Vikings (one of the best they had) who quit at age 28 a few years ago to go to medical school. And of course Alan Page is a judge now. But most of the time I doubt football players do more than the minimum to keep their eligibility.

He truly was the exception to the "just getting by until the draft" crowd.

How did he ever fit the helmet over that hair?

I'm not a football fan really, but these guys are majoring in sports, a field in which they can - if they do it right - make quite a bit of money. Very few succeed in getting to the NFL of course, but it's a major.

Many people major in Art - and most don't succeed as artists. Likewise with music. With theater.

I don't really have a problem with majoring in NFL, or NBA, as long as everyone is honest about what is going on.

There are many fields where people specify where they were educated. "Harvard Law Graduate" is hardly an unknown term.

You may or may not understand some things.....

But, IMHO, that has nothing to do with whether or not you went to college!

You are a very bright guy, and that's all there is to that.....

I don't want you to run yourself down as a result of not having gone to college, OK?

Sheesh.....I hope I'm making sense here....

Wisdom is not an attribute that college classes can impart.

I appreciate your support...

How right you are: "Wisdom is not an attribute that college classes can impart."

Im actually fairly proud of getting to where I am without having gone to college.

And I was, ahem, (looking down, scraping toe on ground and mumbling) actually accepted by Harvard. But they had only law, medicine, and business schools...and I didn't want to be a doctor or a lawyer, and as for business school, I didn't figure I needed that because I had my own business at the time already.

My dear old mother, Cambridge native that she was, never really forgave me for that.

But I went a lot of places and saw a lot of things that I wouldn't have if I had gone to college, and wouldn't trade them.

The tough part is convincing my kids that they DO need to go to college, when they say "Hey, you never did, and you're doing OK." At that point I fall back on the old parent's standby: "Because I told you so."

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I mean, they cannot shut up about Troy Brown being from Marshall, even though he's been a member of the Patriots ever since I was old enough to know what a football is.

are often obsessed with where everybody went to college. It's a sort of ranking system.

HE GETS EXCITED ABOUT EVERY LITTLE THING!!!! He's not my favorite announcer if you couldn't tell.

camera; from his voice I would have bet $100 that he was an old fat guy.

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that they do it to give props to the college. But then, I don't understand why they'd want to do that.

It may well be along the lines of what Will Robinson said — that we're to form some sort of conclusion or evaluation on a player based on the college they played for.

(Note I didn't say "the college at which they were educated," as that would be an assumption.)

OTOH, it could simply be that sports announcers are dumber'n a sack of doorknobs. Especially if they work for Faux. :eyes:

and turn down the sound on the TV. And if someone were to ask me who some of the wisest people I've seen on DU and you'd be on that list. Oh yeah.

that were on fucking FOX everytime the put a graphic on the screen were about to give me a goddamn siezure.

But astonishingly enough, the TV video was about a second and a half behind the radio announcer. It was even worse than the whooshing noises.

And hey, thanks for the compliment.

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Since I can't fucking stand to listen to Faux audio (the video's almost as bad), I simulcasted the entire LCS and Series. I could listen while online and still not miss anything because the delay gave me time to turn and look at the teevee after the radio guys hollered.

But don't get me started on Faux Sports. Just don't. :grr:

Oh... what's frustrating is mlb.com. You can get any major-league game on it, but it's like 30 seconds behind live-action.

John Madden can't be the announcer.

Him, I like.

And it should further be a law that they can't broadcast a game on Thanksgiving without him...What's Thanksgiving without a Turducken?

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I guess because he gets... a bit out of control. :7

But around these parts, we're used to him from his Raiders days. He's natural and he's fun.

I much prefer the guys who didn't go to the Ron Bailey School of Broadchasing. Especially the ex-jocks. :puke:

because he's a regular guy.

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football scholarship so he could study "business" or some other bullshit major and the dean was smart enough to force the professors to give him a "pass" even though he should have failed everything, just so he could keep playing football and ensure that the rich stupid alum would contonue to pour money into the college because they think that a college is rated solely by the success of its football team".

ANd everyone I know loved it

and never did it again.

Not sure why it was such a flop. Strong announcer's union, maybe?

I'm just damn glad I'm not much of a sports fan. I couldn't stand the announcers and the damn whoosing graphics more than the six or seven times a year I watch baseball or football on TV.

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It was an "experiment." I don't remember many details, but I do remember it was a 'B' game, on NBC (in 1980), and that it got a bit better rating in the first quarter or first half over what such a game would normally get. Likely, people tuned in for the novelty, then tuned out because it wasn't a key game.

Maybe a union does have something to do with it. I'd tend to believe, though, it's the network suits' reluctance to try anything radically different. Can't risk scaring off any advertisers, y'know. :eyes:

Personally, I'd love to see games like this all the time. They're a lot more like being there.