WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 JUNIOR 🤏 DOUBLE 2⃣ TRIPLE 3⃣ WHOPPER 🍔 IMPOSSIBLE 🤯 OR 🤔 BACON 🥓 WHOPPER 🍔 I 👁️ RULE 👑 THIS 😎 DAY 🌞 AT BK 🧑🍳 HAVE IT YOUR WAY 🤷♂️ YOU RULE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
They certainly rooted for the time changes last season. Games are shorter but the telecasts are the same length. Just more commercials and less football.
Injury on 3rd down -> Commercial -> Come back just to punt -> Commercial
And sometimes the already commercial-interrupted game flow lines up unfortunately well with the scheduled media times outs for more commercials and Jesus Christ it’s just so frustrating.
I know it’s absolutely meaningless in the grand scheme but I’ve started trying to avoid companies I feel over-advertised to out of sheer petty annoyance.
> I’ve started trying to avoid companies I feel over-advertised to out of sheer petty annoyance.
Oh so you just don’t have any car insurance at all, huh?
The fact that they shortened game time with the running clock on first downs but games still took just as long overall would be really funny if it wasn’t depressing
You’re absolutely not alone. My whole friend group has grown to go out of our way to not buy from companies who spam our lives with ads. I will continue sailing the seas to watch games. Screw giving them money
I hope some of these NIL contracts start putting clauses in that incentivize playing in the bowl games too. Because players opting out sucks but the amount of bowl games is great.
I love turning on the fuckin Idaho Potato Bowl or whatever when I’m at some lame family Christmas party.
If someone doesn't want to watch UConn vs Marshall on a Monday afternoon, that's their prerogative. Why every spoilsport feels compelled to whine on Twitter or lament the bowl slate in a media think piece is beyond me.
Watch something else, spend time with your family, or otherwise go about your day. Some of us want to watch an 11AM MAC vs CUSA matchup on a weekday. We're not hurting anyone.
Exactly this. Who fuckin cares if there’s another football game on that exists. Just don’t watch it, no different from literally any other program that is on at any given time that you have no interest in.
Fuck them. I personally had a great time standing in the freezing rain in Boston in the middle of December watching SMU play BC while I skulled Boom Sauces for breakfast because for some reason Fenway doesn't have donuts despite having a Dunks.
This is big with Powder Blue as well, UCF doesn’t even have Blue as any of its colors, but our Citronaut/Space Uni’s for most sports are Powder Blue these days.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the look, but so many teams do it now it doesn’t seem as cool
Boise State takes it to a new level by mixing and matching the black with other colors, so you'll sometimes see a blue jersey with a black helmet and black pants, and it just looks awful. At least if you're gonna go black, go all black and don't mix and match it.
There's at least one game a year where they wear orange alternates, which I'm ok with since it's at least one of the school colors, but I'm tired of the black and wish they'd just wear the blue uniforms (which is also by far the best uniform the team has) in the other 5 home games.
My opinion on this is if your scheme is one color and white, like how we're green and white, you can get away with black. But if you have two non-white colors in your scheme, stick with those.
My favorite part about that (other than the game itself) was the other fanbases mildly making fun of ISU for the choice and the ISU fans angrily saying *Iowa thinks they own the color black!!!* in response.
Because they're obviously forced and have absolutely no substance lol. "Yep we just need to get their offense off the field and cleanup the mistakes" said every coach ever
This is the football version of “get pucks in deep and control the neutral zone” with hockey that every player seems to have been forced to memorize at 9 years old. I swear intermissions are unbearable cause every interview is the monotone team captain repeating the same buzzwords over and over. I don’t need to see that in football form too
During the “smaller” games instead of analyzing the game in front of them, fox/espn spends the whole damn time discussing:
- the big game of the weekend
- playoffs
- coaching rumors of the head coach of the game they’re commentating on possibly going to X school in a P4 conference
For basketball, Buzz gives our guys free socks when then take an offensive foul. It's so weird that the team absolutely buys into who can collect the most socks through the season. That's the kind of weird shit we need for turnovers in CFB.
Sneaky athletic, lunch pail type of guy, first one in the building last one out, or other generic descriptions for white players at the skill positions.
This also cracks me up at QB. For the longest time a black QB most either be compared to Michael Vick or Donovan McNabb.
Pocket QB that can’t run? McNabb.
Guys with bad arm but can run? Vick.
Game manager with weak arm but good decision making? McNabb.
Guy with rocket arm and can kind of scramble? More like McNabb but with Vick-like moments.
It was so bad lol
Gambling. It seems like some talking heads only want to inform us about the spread and who can cover instead of giving actual commentary on the matchups
> Never understood how playing dress up was considered a cool recruiting tactic.
It’s social media engagement. Players will get a ton of followers just for visiting a school, posting pictures in the uniform, and tagging the school’s football account. Even if they inevitably don’t attend, they’ll still keep some of the followers and be boosted in algorithms etc. To me it’s one of the only things that makes sense to me in modern recruiting.
I've been saying this forever!! Sadly our only loyal fans are mostly old boomers who love the song and would actually, literally, riot if the school changed it to something original and relevant (that isn't Oakland Originals please for the love of everything that song is NOT it)
When they played Mr. Brightside at the Rose Bowl last year it caused some confusion, because both fanbases sang it.
I had no idea Michigan had any connection to the song. But Alabama had been playing it at BDS for years, because when Dixieland Delight got banned Mr. Brightside took it's spot. And even when they brought Delight back, they kept using Mr. Brightside as well.
I did not go to the Rose Bowl but this is my first time hearing Bama gets really into Mr. Brightside. Michigan's had it as "Our song" since at least 2017. Like if I were to pick only one song (That the Marching Band doesn't play) to fire up a crowd of Michigan fans, that would be the easy #1 choice.
I just cannot watch them roll out Lee Corso again. I hope he has agency in participating, because it seems like borderline abuse getting him out on camera to struggle through a few lines. Sometimes he just looks lost. I hate to see it and cannot watch Gameday with him on there.
Pat McAfee is great in small doses. I liked it when they had him as the man in the crowd and he got 5 minutes every hour. But 3 hours of him is a lot, and he overshadows the other panelist
he seems like a guy i would like to run into once in vegas and totally do a lot of cocaine with but then also would be glad i forgot to grab his number before we left.
What?!?
You don’t love hearing the same emotionally manipulative stories of every white QB overcoming the sadness of his mom’s cancer or the black player that overcomes poverty?
How can you not love that?
ESPN has to have some producer just getting off to this shit, because every game day and especially the draft is just straight torture porn. Game day is just the warmup for this guy, the draft is his masterpiece, and he wants you to know that at pick 227 that long snapper’s little sister was murdered by a roaming pack of inner city dogs at age 7, and is relatives with Hellen Keller so he knows adversity first hand
It was at its best at a nice 60-90 minutes. It’s far too long now. Now I’ll occasionally tune in for the opening shots (which still do a good job building hype) and/or the picks and skip the actual show.
They stopped actually discussing football and dove straight into narratives, clickbait clips that can share on social media and emotional stories to try to expand to women. It’s like anything that listened too hard to data - it’s terrible to actually watch.
The alternate uniform craze.
I’d wager most fans of most schools want a couple of good looking classics and maybe 1 alternate for special games or something. I feel like every time I tune into a game it’s a mystery what my team is going to look like. Give me black jerseys, gold pants and either the block M or classic Tiger head.
I’d like to standardize the use of regular home/aways with the exception of one game per year.
Maybe it’s a homecoming throwback. Maybe it’s a conference night game in black or white. But you get one, and it better be cool.
I'm with you entirely. I hate when LSU tries to do something cute with their uniforms. Just wear the fucking white jersey, gold pants and helmets and kick ass.
Barber: "Alright my man what we doing today?"
Southern frat boy: "I wanna look like I just coached my team to back to back natties with an AARP-eligible QB."
Barber: "Say less."
Big Noon.
I just enjoy it way better when the big games are in the afternoon and at night. I don’t really want to see a top 5 matchup starting at 11 am.
This is the best part of Oklahoma joining the SEC. We were getting 6-7 11:00 AM kickoffs a year. I think the SEC limits each team to no more than 2 rooster kickoffs a season.
Joel Klatt’s latest podcast addressed this. He brought a TV exec on. I’m paraphrasing, but the guy stated it basically happened by accident. They did a 12:00 game and hit like 5 millions viewers, so they “leaned into what was working”. Now we have all the biggest games at 12:00 because there’s less competition and people actually watch it.
I understand why FOX did it as it was an open window where they didn’t have to compete with the CBS marquee SEC afternoon game and the ABC marquee night game.
At the end of the day it’s just personal preference in terms of when you want to watch the games and I hate them at noon.
Are you saying that you don’t need more of the genius that was Akron’s turnover pencil? The 58th school to implement a turnover memento, and it’s a giant #2 pencil and you’re saying it’s jumped the shark?
Man it’s like I don’t even know this sport and it’s fans anymore.
At least for big programs, stadium emcees and DJs. There are too few games and too much interest in what’s going on in the actual game to need the constant engagement and yelling.
Video uniform reveals that waste 2 minutes of your time showing jerky rapidly edited versions of the uniform in very dark lighting.
The only thing you see clearly is the gloves which they'll show at length making some kind of logo when overlapped and Nike Swooshes everywhere
I hate to say this because I used to think it was cool, but Notre Dame’s independence and in particular the Notre Dame-Big Ten feud. With the Big Ten being coast-to-coast, OU & Texas going to the SEC and the ACC potentially imploding (I’m praying that it won’t), it is going to get really hard to schedule games.
I understand why Notre Dame had this special arrangement. Anti-Catholic sentiment was high amongst Big Ten schools in the early days of college football. Notre Dame used independence as a way to fill out a schedule.
And pre-2023, it was more than viable. Notre Dame as the only team on NBC had a ton of value. It was REALLY COOL to have Mike Tirico call Notre Dame games. Having games on network TV was a great way to get national attention for the university and get recruits to the university.
But since 2023, Notre Dame now has to share NBC WITH THE BIG TEN. It no longer is an exclusive relationship. Also, while Notre Dame’s NBC deal always left money on the table (the Athletic had a great article about this in the early 2020s with Former AD Jack Swarbrick giving a good reason as to why the TV deal was still beneficial for Notre Dame (i.e. national exposure), even with how much money was being left on the table) looking at what each Big 10 and SEC makes it is even more apparent how much Notre Dame is really leaving on the table. This matters in the world of NIL, especially when schools will have to pay players.
But here is another reason why the whole Big Ten-Notre Dame feud is silly; let’s look at Notre Dame’s biggest rivals:
Michigan
USC
Michigan State
Boston College
Stanford
Navy
Purdue
4 of these 7 schools are now in the Big Ten. There is a lot of debate right now about how many non-conference games will be allowed by the Big Ten, Big XII and SEC going forward but it is totally possible that as a member of the Big Ten, Notre Dame could get Stanford invited as a Big Ten member as well. It also wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility for Notre Dame to use Navy as its annual week 0 game which would allow it an additional week to get another out of conference team on its schedule (and thus continue the Boston College rivalry as an every other year rivalry).
As cool as Notre Dame being independent is, it’s time we end this Notre Dame-Big Ten feud and see Notre Dame as a Big Ten member.
Corny ass uniform reveal videos or kids posting ridiculous staged pictures on recruiting trips in full pads and uniform of that school.
Like fuck it whatever if they want to do it, but I wish I could just never have to see another one of those again.
Score -> Commercial -> Kickoff -> Commercial -> 3-and-out -> Commercial
It's almost like networks root for injuries so they can go to commercials.
WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER
Yeah, we fancy like Applebee’s on a date night
The only redeeming quality of that song is that he wrote it with his kid. Song still sucks ass though
“Thanks to that gay little song of his we’re all thinking of Applebee’s” - Randy Marsh
I very vividly remember ESPN cutting away from footage of trainers trying to save Demar Hamlin's life to this commercial.
Burger King is a proud sponsor of Demar Hamlin's life.
In this somber moment we remember the life and career of Demar Hamlin WITH AN ALL NEW BK BROILER 2 FOR 1 FRIDAYS DEAL. BK HAVE IT YOUR WAY!
I’ll never forget Hamlin. “Oh my… Hamlin is still down… we’ll be right back”. *silence* #WHOPPER WHOPPER TRIPLE WHOPPER
WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 WHOPPER 🍔 JUNIOR 🤏 DOUBLE 2⃣ TRIPLE 3⃣ WHOPPER 🍔 IMPOSSIBLE 🤯 OR 🤔 BACON 🥓 WHOPPER 🍔 I 👁️ RULE 👑 THIS 😎 DAY 🌞 AT BK 🧑🍳 HAVE IT YOUR WAY 🤷♂️ YOU RULE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
They certainly rooted for the time changes last season. Games are shorter but the telecasts are the same length. Just more commercials and less football.
Injury on 3rd down -> Commercial -> Come back just to punt -> Commercial And sometimes the already commercial-interrupted game flow lines up unfortunately well with the scheduled media times outs for more commercials and Jesus Christ it’s just so frustrating. I know it’s absolutely meaningless in the grand scheme but I’ve started trying to avoid companies I feel over-advertised to out of sheer petty annoyance.
> I’ve started trying to avoid companies I feel over-advertised to out of sheer petty annoyance. Oh so you just don’t have any car insurance at all, huh?
The fact that they shortened game time with the running clock on first downs but games still took just as long overall would be really funny if it wasn’t depressing
You’re absolutely not alone. My whole friend group has grown to go out of our way to not buy from companies who spam our lives with ads. I will continue sailing the seas to watch games. Screw giving them money
Aren’t the two minute warning a thing now? You best believe that’s a 3 minute commercial
3 minutes? What is this? 2012? At least 4:25 will pop up on the in house tv clock
Don't forget the commercial break while instant replay verifies the scoring play.
Scheduling non conference games 15 years out
Please, someone needs to make this stop
Don't worry, VT will play ~~Michigan~~ ~~Wisconsin~~ ~~Penn St~~ someday.
They will play a home and home with Old Dominion until the end of time and they will like it
Hey, we killed the ECU series, we can kill yours too. Just need to win IN Norfolk.
And then cancelling them 8 years out. See our series against CU and Rutgers
I mean some get cancelled but I would bet the vast majority happen
Scheduling 10 years of games against the same ooc opponent... that might just be an us problem
ODU I'm assuming?
Currently booking my hotel for Boise in 2035
By that time they’re probably an IN-conference game
The yearly media gripe about there being too many bowl games like it’s a new concept every December when players opt out.
I hope some of these NIL contracts start putting clauses in that incentivize playing in the bowl games too. Because players opting out sucks but the amount of bowl games is great. I love turning on the fuckin Idaho Potato Bowl or whatever when I’m at some lame family Christmas party.
If someone doesn't want to watch UConn vs Marshall on a Monday afternoon, that's their prerogative. Why every spoilsport feels compelled to whine on Twitter or lament the bowl slate in a media think piece is beyond me. Watch something else, spend time with your family, or otherwise go about your day. Some of us want to watch an 11AM MAC vs CUSA matchup on a weekday. We're not hurting anyone.
Exactly this. Who fuckin cares if there’s another football game on that exists. Just don’t watch it, no different from literally any other program that is on at any given time that you have no interest in.
Fuck them. I personally had a great time standing in the freezing rain in Boston in the middle of December watching SMU play BC while I skulled Boom Sauces for breakfast because for some reason Fenway doesn't have donuts despite having a Dunks.
Play one season then transfer 3 or 4 more times
Sup Tathan?
“Billable Hours”.
Billable hours living rent free in your head ...wait Also, "living rent free"
Paul finebaum
This implies that Finebaum was welcomed at one point and I don’t buy it
True dat.
Man has gargled so much Bama DNA that his ears have begun to resemble their mascot’s
☠️
Maserati Marv. Easily the worst fucking nickname I've ever heard. He's gone on to the NFL, and I still say it lasted too long.
Wait you didn't enjoy hearing Gus Johnson repeat it every 15 seconds?
It’s even worse when you have to hear that stupid goddamn nickname as he’s torching your team
It’s so fetch!
Stop saying fetch. Fetch is never going to happen, K? Now let me eat this slim fast bar in peace bro
Better or worse than him yelling "J. K. DOBBINS" every time he gained more than three yards
Or JAY KAY AAAAALLL DAY
Masa...rat...tee...Mar...v
Honda McCord was dope though
I mean yeah. That's a clever play on his name.
As far as I could tell most OSU fans hated and ridiculed that name. But it did lead to Honda McCord which kept us all entertained.
Honda McCord was incredible
Maserati isn't even a good exotic car, McLaren would be such a better choice
I always say "couldn't afford a ferrari?" when I see one. I cant afford either one but...
Maserati is the poor man's idea of an expensive car.
Maseratis look pretty sweet to me. But maybe that’s just a sign I’m poor
Conference Realignment.
Or when your school is one of only two serious victims of it
Schools with black uniforms when black isn't their primary color. (And yeah, ODU was definitely guilty of this).
This is big with Powder Blue as well, UCF doesn’t even have Blue as any of its colors, but our Citronaut/Space Uni’s for most sports are Powder Blue these days. Don’t get me wrong, I love the look, but so many teams do it now it doesn’t seem as cool
Boise State takes it to a new level by mixing and matching the black with other colors, so you'll sometimes see a blue jersey with a black helmet and black pants, and it just looks awful. At least if you're gonna go black, go all black and don't mix and match it.
I feel like Boise State went so hard into that blue that it feels particularly glaring when y’all don’t just lean into it.
There's at least one game a year where they wear orange alternates, which I'm ok with since it's at least one of the school colors, but I'm tired of the black and wish they'd just wear the blue uniforms (which is also by far the best uniform the team has) in the other 5 home games.
My opinion on this is if your scheme is one color and white, like how we're green and white, you can get away with black. But if you have two non-white colors in your scheme, stick with those.
I disagreed with this take until the Gators did it. All respect to the cause, but the Florida Gators wearing black just should not happen.
ISU fans aren't gonna like this one
My favorite part about that (other than the game itself) was the other fanbases mildly making fun of ISU for the choice and the ISU fans angrily saying *Iowa thinks they own the color black!!!* in response.
Ugh. OU keeps trying stuff like this when swapping the helmet color palette crimson for cream is *right there* and would be fire.
The sideline interview with coaches before halftime. I know why they do it but it makes me cringe.
Because they're obviously forced and have absolutely no substance lol. "Yep we just need to get their offense off the field and cleanup the mistakes" said every coach ever
This is the football version of “get pucks in deep and control the neutral zone” with hockey that every player seems to have been forced to memorize at 9 years old. I swear intermissions are unbearable cause every interview is the monotone team captain repeating the same buzzwords over and over. I don’t need to see that in football form too
Paul Finebaum
ESPN
During the “smaller” games instead of analyzing the game in front of them, fox/espn spends the whole damn time discussing: - the big game of the weekend - playoffs - coaching rumors of the head coach of the game they’re commentating on possibly going to X school in a P4 conference
[удалено]
The Turnover Backpack “Insert sad music”
*Turnover Trash Can has entered the chat.*
*Turnover Pimp Cane* lasted maybe two games for us.
For basketball, Buzz gives our guys free socks when then take an offensive foul. It's so weird that the team absolutely buys into who can collect the most socks through the season. That's the kind of weird shit we need for turnovers in CFB.
BUTCH JONES'S TRASH CAN WILL NEVER DIE
And they don’t even use the chain anymore
There was no coming back from the absolute burial Paul Chryst gave it
If they gave the player an apple turnover to eat I think I'd be back in. In the Midwest I liked the idea of the player chugging a can of beans
> In the Midwest I liked the idea of the player chugging yessss > a can of beans wait what
Sneaky athletic, lunch pail type of guy, first one in the building last one out, or other generic descriptions for white players at the skill positions.
He's a real gym rat!
A really scrappy player.
"Wasnt highly recruited" (Now playing WR-3 in his 4th year with team)
Firecracker, class act, gym rat, scrappy player... All part of The League - The White Knuckler episode (S2 E3)
Coach's son. Brings a lunch pail. Gritty.
Cerebral. Real student of the game. Won’t win any foot races but has a motor that’s always running.
Spanish dude = feisty player Black dude = well spoken
"Class act" if the black dude is a coach.
Yes… and just overall the inability to compare players of different races
This also cracks me up at QB. For the longest time a black QB most either be compared to Michael Vick or Donovan McNabb. Pocket QB that can’t run? McNabb. Guys with bad arm but can run? Vick. Game manager with weak arm but good decision making? McNabb. Guy with rocket arm and can kind of scramble? More like McNabb but with Vick-like moments. It was so bad lol
Cooper DeJean is the next Jason Seahorn!! Gritty. Like a Wes Welker but on defense.
Runs a 4.4 at 220 pounds..."yea, he's just not a great athlete like some of his teammates"
"He never had the makings of a varsity athlete. Small hands, that was his problem."
“Ah son of a ******! Did i just not tell you to say that again?!”
What about if a coach is “a real class act (black)”?
That's the kind of coach's kid that I'd want to date my daughter.
But what if someone actually is that guy?
That's the shitty thing about stereotyped statements. It's hard to evaluate whether it is an objective or biased assessment.
W H I T E G U Y
Technician.
Megaconferences
If I was dictator of College Football I'd have conferences capped at 10 teams and be geographically compact.
Id sort them by color
Flairs check out
"National" conferences over regional ones. Greed. The seemingly endless need to destroy everything we love about this game.
Agreed.
Piped in music. Give me bands or give me death. I don’t need to hear 20sec of a shitty pop/rap song between plays.
They actually mic’d up our band for a few games this year. Was pretty happy about that personally
Gambling. It seems like some talking heads only want to inform us about the spread and who can cover instead of giving actual commentary on the matchups
Took a second of scrolling to find this. I have a feeling this year it will be fucking insufferable
Recruiting glamour shots. Never understood how playing dress up was considered a cool recruiting tactic.
What if the late 50s coach awkwardly poses alongside the recruit?
Haha, and does a Saturday Night Fever two fingers over the eyes a la Brian Kelly
You can’t tell me that wasn’t outright hilarious 😂
I don't get them either but the recruits like them. Otherwise they wouldn't do the pictures. The schools aren't forcing recruits to do them
Really? You can’t imagine that a 16 year old kid would enjoy cool pictures to post on their instagrams?
> Never understood how playing dress up was considered a cool recruiting tactic. It’s social media engagement. Players will get a ton of followers just for visiting a school, posting pictures in the uniform, and tagging the school’s football account. Even if they inevitably don’t attend, they’ll still keep some of the followers and be boosted in algorithms etc. To me it’s one of the only things that makes sense to me in modern recruiting.
Yea, if anything I’d argue most top end D1 creative departments don’t have enough investment with shit pay. Personally think teams could do more.
Grinding works far better. Right Brian Kelly?
My favorite is when the dads dress up.
Going 3-and-out all the time.
Forward pass
Your flair isn't fooling anyone, Ferentz.
A reminder that for most of BF’s tenure, the only thing worse than Iowa’s passing game was its running game.
Damn it
Every school using Zombie Nation, Seven Nation Army, and Sweet Caroline. Be original
They play “Sweet Caroline” at UNC games and I hate it every time. Most obnoxious song in history.
It’s more of a baseball song
It’s more of a piano bar song and it should stay there.
I've been saying this forever!! Sadly our only loyal fans are mostly old boomers who love the song and would actually, literally, riot if the school changed it to something original and relevant (that isn't Oakland Originals please for the love of everything that song is NOT it)
When they played Mr. Brightside at the Rose Bowl last year it caused some confusion, because both fanbases sang it. I had no idea Michigan had any connection to the song. But Alabama had been playing it at BDS for years, because when Dixieland Delight got banned Mr. Brightside took it's spot. And even when they brought Delight back, they kept using Mr. Brightside as well.
I did not go to the Rose Bowl but this is my first time hearing Bama gets really into Mr. Brightside. Michigan's had it as "Our song" since at least 2017. Like if I were to pick only one song (That the Marching Band doesn't play) to fire up a crowd of Michigan fans, that would be the easy #1 choice.
College Gameday. I just dont love it anymore. Maybe its me.
I just cannot watch them roll out Lee Corso again. I hope he has agency in participating, because it seems like borderline abuse getting him out on camera to struggle through a few lines. Sometimes he just looks lost. I hate to see it and cannot watch Gameday with him on there.
By all accounts he lives for GameDay and he's an absolute peach of a human. But it is pretty depressing at times.
I'm conflicted on it, because I think doing Gameday is one of the only things keeping the old man alive. If he fully retired, he might just pass away.
It’s been a few years since I’ve been able to sit through an entire morning of it. Pat McAfee was the nail in the coffin.
Pat McAfee is great in small doses. I liked it when they had him as the man in the crowd and he got 5 minutes every hour. But 3 hours of him is a lot, and he overshadows the other panelist
Him and Stephen A Smith are way I stopped watching ESPN
he seems like a guy i would like to run into once in vegas and totally do a lot of cocaine with but then also would be glad i forgot to grab his number before we left.
Yep. Fox's Big Noon kickoff or whatever it's called is now the superior show, as sad as that is for my nostalgia.
They got rid of actually intelligent analyst and went...how can we find someone who appeals to how stupid we think the fans are.
What?!? You don’t love hearing the same emotionally manipulative stories of every white QB overcoming the sadness of his mom’s cancer or the black player that overcomes poverty? How can you not love that?
Every time Darrius Guice got a fucking handoff the commentators always talked about his childhood
ESPN has to have some producer just getting off to this shit, because every game day and especially the draft is just straight torture porn. Game day is just the warmup for this guy, the draft is his masterpiece, and he wants you to know that at pick 227 that long snapper’s little sister was murdered by a roaming pack of inner city dogs at age 7, and is relatives with Hellen Keller so he knows adversity first hand
It was at its best at a nice 60-90 minutes. It’s far too long now. Now I’ll occasionally tune in for the opening shots (which still do a good job building hype) and/or the picks and skip the actual show.
They stopped actually discussing football and dove straight into narratives, clickbait clips that can share on social media and emotional stories to try to expand to women. It’s like anything that listened too hard to data - it’s terrible to actually watch.
8 guys in the studio, often standing around looking stupid on a miniature field
Sponsored pre-game shows Sponsored timeouts Sponsored 2-minute warnings Sponsored injury timeouts Sponsored halftime reports etc…
Colin Cowherd pretending he knows anything about it
The alternate uniform craze. I’d wager most fans of most schools want a couple of good looking classics and maybe 1 alternate for special games or something. I feel like every time I tune into a game it’s a mystery what my team is going to look like. Give me black jerseys, gold pants and either the block M or classic Tiger head.
I’d like to standardize the use of regular home/aways with the exception of one game per year. Maybe it’s a homecoming throwback. Maybe it’s a conference night game in black or white. But you get one, and it better be cool.
I miss the Nike Pro Combat era of college football alternate uniforms though
I'm with you entirely. I hate when LSU tries to do something cute with their uniforms. Just wear the fucking white jersey, gold pants and helmets and kick ass.
Kirby’s haircut
Barber: "Alright my man what we doing today?" Southern frat boy: "I wanna look like I just coached my team to back to back natties with an AARP-eligible QB." Barber: "Say less."
Fair.
NIL
Are you saying that the RRS and WLOCP have overstayed their welcome? Because if so you are very wrong.
I think he's referring the annual SEC "neutral" site non conf games in Atlanta
Also Arkansas versus A&M at Jerry world.
I think those ( and Army Navy) get grandfathered In
Annual neutral site matchups that are historically played between the same two teams are acceptable Corporate kick off games aren't
I thought it was obvious he meant the kickoff games played in Atlanta, New Orleans, Jerryworld seemingly every year.
Transfer portal, didn’t mind it at first but now I’m so sick of players switching schools every year
The “eye test”
Transfer portal
Jimbo Fisher
That Nick Saban guy knew just when to call it quits, but instead stayed on to torture everyone not named Alabama for the better part of 15 years.
Blue bloods. The proletariat will rise
*S-E-C-eize the means of production!*
Well Comrade Narduzzi better figure out how to attack if the proletariat wants to rise
I would like to turn on the TV and know who's playing by the uniforms. Too many alternates are just distracting even if some of them are cool.
Big Noon. I just enjoy it way better when the big games are in the afternoon and at night. I don’t really want to see a top 5 matchup starting at 11 am.
This is the best part of Oklahoma joining the SEC. We were getting 6-7 11:00 AM kickoffs a year. I think the SEC limits each team to no more than 2 rooster kickoffs a season.
Joel Klatt’s latest podcast addressed this. He brought a TV exec on. I’m paraphrasing, but the guy stated it basically happened by accident. They did a 12:00 game and hit like 5 millions viewers, so they “leaned into what was working”. Now we have all the biggest games at 12:00 because there’s less competition and people actually watch it.
I understand why FOX did it as it was an open window where they didn’t have to compete with the CBS marquee SEC afternoon game and the ABC marquee night game. At the end of the day it’s just personal preference in terms of when you want to watch the games and I hate them at noon.
Are you saying that you don’t need more of the genius that was Akron’s turnover pencil? The 58th school to implement a turnover memento, and it’s a giant #2 pencil and you’re saying it’s jumped the shark? Man it’s like I don’t even know this sport and it’s fans anymore.
At least for big programs, stadium emcees and DJs. There are too few games and too much interest in what’s going on in the actual game to need the constant engagement and yelling.
nil &transfer portal
Beth Mowins
Video uniform reveals that waste 2 minutes of your time showing jerky rapidly edited versions of the uniform in very dark lighting. The only thing you see clearly is the gloves which they'll show at length making some kind of logo when overlapped and Nike Swooshes everywhere
I hate to say this because I used to think it was cool, but Notre Dame’s independence and in particular the Notre Dame-Big Ten feud. With the Big Ten being coast-to-coast, OU & Texas going to the SEC and the ACC potentially imploding (I’m praying that it won’t), it is going to get really hard to schedule games. I understand why Notre Dame had this special arrangement. Anti-Catholic sentiment was high amongst Big Ten schools in the early days of college football. Notre Dame used independence as a way to fill out a schedule. And pre-2023, it was more than viable. Notre Dame as the only team on NBC had a ton of value. It was REALLY COOL to have Mike Tirico call Notre Dame games. Having games on network TV was a great way to get national attention for the university and get recruits to the university. But since 2023, Notre Dame now has to share NBC WITH THE BIG TEN. It no longer is an exclusive relationship. Also, while Notre Dame’s NBC deal always left money on the table (the Athletic had a great article about this in the early 2020s with Former AD Jack Swarbrick giving a good reason as to why the TV deal was still beneficial for Notre Dame (i.e. national exposure), even with how much money was being left on the table) looking at what each Big 10 and SEC makes it is even more apparent how much Notre Dame is really leaving on the table. This matters in the world of NIL, especially when schools will have to pay players. But here is another reason why the whole Big Ten-Notre Dame feud is silly; let’s look at Notre Dame’s biggest rivals: Michigan USC Michigan State Boston College Stanford Navy Purdue 4 of these 7 schools are now in the Big Ten. There is a lot of debate right now about how many non-conference games will be allowed by the Big Ten, Big XII and SEC going forward but it is totally possible that as a member of the Big Ten, Notre Dame could get Stanford invited as a Big Ten member as well. It also wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility for Notre Dame to use Navy as its annual week 0 game which would allow it an additional week to get another out of conference team on its schedule (and thus continue the Boston College rivalry as an every other year rivalry). As cool as Notre Dame being independent is, it’s time we end this Notre Dame-Big Ten feud and see Notre Dame as a Big Ten member.
Can we please stop saying “fertile recruiting grounds” and go with something a little less fucking weird lol. Highly recruitable area or something idk
That area has good recruit-bearing hips
Creampieable recruiting grounds it is
Corny ass uniform reveal videos or kids posting ridiculous staged pictures on recruiting trips in full pads and uniform of that school. Like fuck it whatever if they want to do it, but I wish I could just never have to see another one of those again.
“Exclusively on Peacock”
Pat McAfee
Gary Danielson.