GREAT MOMENTS IN BROADCASTING, NEW YEAR'S DAY EDITION.
Besides muscle atrophy and indigestion, bowl season also gives the viewer something else: a great opportunity to comparison shop between networks. A few highlights from a long and intense weekend of bowl viewing that's left the pants feeling a bit tight this Tuesday.
1. NFL Network catches Mike Leach losing it. When a major earthquake hit Kashmir in 2005, donations for the quake disappointed many relief agencies, who blamed what they called "disaster fatigue." Enter why we're not talking more about Texas Tech (yarr) and their epochal comeback from being down 38-7 to defeat Minnesota 44-41. We watched most of this from a bar, and am about to dislocate shoulder patting self on back. The scene:
EDSBS Legal Counsel B.J. Strykker: Doesn't look good, man.
Orson: They can come back. They're pirates.
Strykker: Really?
Orson: Yarr. They're pirates.
The dialogue may not be correct--it likely included a few more yarrs, actually. But we did call it, since Texas Tech can run off forty point scoring binges with terrifying ease. Glen Mason, Minnesota head coach and obvious non-samurai, did not slit his belly open after the game and keep his ancestors from disgrace. Minnesota did this for him with stunning speed, firing him after the game. Sadly, this was not caught on camera.
What was? This. And we thought Mike Leach was too cool to care.
2. Clemson player practices the ancient art of ikebana...in his pants.
Kentucky and coach Red Foreman beat the stripes off Clemson, whose head coach must have questioned whether the team wanted to win or just jack off on the sidelines and lose. The answer, thanks to some alert Tivoing (HT: Jason), was clear on the scoreboard and on camera:

Dig deep, team, and find victory.
3. Gary Danielson calls Calvin Johnson "The Toilet" Reeling from the realization at what Georgia Tech could have been had Chan Gailey not started a 42 year old midget auto mechanic from Austell at quarterback for four years, Gary Danielson struggled to come up with a good nickname for Calvin Johnson. Riffing off Johnson's well-publicized work with a clean water/sanitation project in Bolivia, Danielson actually said something like this:
"Well...maybe we should call him 'The Toilet.' I mean, around him, nothing hits the ground, right?"
Gary has never used a bathroom in China. This we can guarantee.
4. Musburger goes apeshit over a punt landing in the endzone for a touchback. In the course of any Musbergame, there will be several of these along the way: a stray bee flies into the booth, a b-list celebrity is shown picking his ear on the sidelines, a three yard run with a hint of potential occurs. Our favorite came in the second quarter of Michigan's effete performance against USC. A USC punt sails toward the endzone, hits at around the eight, and begins what to the viewer is an obvious bounce into the paint for a touchback. Musberger narrates thusly.
And there's a highhhhhh punt bouncing at the eight NO WAIT THAT'S SLOWING DOWN AROUND THE FOUR THE THREE WHOAAAA HOLY SWEET BABY JESUS THAT COULD BEEEEEEE aah that's a touchback through the back of the endzone.
Brent Musberger could call a colonoscopy like it was the 2005 Rose Bowl and still try to get you to hang around for the biopsy. He may not succeed, sure; but he's gonna try.
5. ESPN's replay work in the Outback Bowl. With practice and a year of experience the camera angles are multiplying. Whether by luck or through design, the Outback Bowl crew caught as perfect and defnitive an image of the fumble as one could imagine having: Foster, parallel to the ground and lunging forward, his knee tantalizingly close to the ground with the ball clearly out and tumbling away from him. Mike Patrick cooed on the replay: "Outstanding work, guys." We concur.
Foster's only hope--that he hadn't fumbled--was hopeless, according to superb replay work.
6. A Song Girl's butt roast appeared for 0.3 seconds on live television. Go here and check it out if you like. Some will claim she went commando, which is highly unlikely; it's more likely that she's got a wedge or wearing a thong. Either way it's semi-SFW cheesecake, and it's the funniest thing we've seen since we sent the whole office that email of that monkey doing the thing. You know, the monkey thing we sent you.
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Did you catch Bob Greezy talking about the new Arkansas “Mandarin” Bump-and-run defense?
by RedTide on Jan 2, 2007 12:33 PM EST reply actions
MZone has posted an HD shot of the Song Girl in question. Sadly, she was properly outfitted….just had a heckuva wedgie.
by Gator KK on Jan 2, 2007 12:34 PM EST reply actions
Is that Jad Dean in the Clemson screen capture? A better caption might have been, “Hey Coach, you should borrow a set of these, um, no wait a minute, they were here a minute ago. Coach Scott, Coach Scott – did you mistake my nutts for sheep oysters again?!?”
by Jim on Jan 2, 2007 12:37 PM EST reply actions
We like Mark May for stepping on his crank on the Bama Coach Search
http://loserwithsocks.wordpress.com/2007/01/01/did-anyone-hear-mark-mays-trailer-park-comment-in-regard-to-nick-saban/
by LWS on Jan 2, 2007 12:46 PM EST reply actions
Someone needs a youtube of Ian Johnson’s proposal.
Only because Chris Myers totally ruined it — as he was finishing the interview he said, “Okay, I know you are going to propose to your girlfriend now” and hands it over to Johnson.
Maybe that’s how they drew it up, but Johnson probably wanted to be the first to let the Mrs. know what was about to happen. Call me old fashioned.
by cardsfan on Jan 2, 2007 12:58 PM EST reply actions
Mason got sliced up so fast that Maturi showed him his heart before he actually died. It was kinda like the weird guy in Temple of Doom who just clawed it out of your chest. There’s not a better way to start the New Year. Maybe Meechigan fans should try it.
by Glen Mason Fired on Jan 2, 2007 1:01 PM EST reply actions
Um, is there any reason Mike Leach looks stoned out of his mind in that clip? His pupils are even dilated.
Mark May can eat an ass.
And why is there no mention of Fox’s horrendous broadcast of the Cotton Bowl? I used to love Summerall and Madden, but Pat’s so old at this point he’s basically dead. He had clearly come into the game with absolutely no preparation. It was like you put my granddad in the booth and told him to talk about what was going on down on the field. The sound was screwed up the whole game, and there were jump cuts in the middle of plays to girls eating pizza. Plus, Pat and the other guy made numerous statements that were just incorrect (anyone remember Bill Callahan’s Super Bowl victory?).
by glacialspeed on Jan 2, 2007 1:15 PM EST reply actions
I was at work during the Rose Bowl and my friend recorded the game just to show me the “Butt Roast”.
We agreed that it was another miracle courtesy of TIVO.
by MW on Jan 2, 2007 1:22 PM EST reply actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJgXxQpsUhY
This is a must watch for Gator fans…. tards.
by Good Vibration on Jan 2, 2007 1:25 PM EST reply actions
That was a definite wedgie, no thong or commando. If you study the replay in frame-by-frame slow motion, you can see a bit of brief on the left cheek , but the right side is pretty thoroughly embedded.
So I’ve been told…by the kind of people who study these things.
by Sam on Jan 2, 2007 1:36 PM EST reply actions
#7, change “ass” to “bullet,” and count me in.
by RandomSlowGuy on Jan 2, 2007 1:44 PM EST reply actions
Danielson was en fuego yesterday, after GT’s replacement QB hooked up another Johnson reception he quipped, “No disrespect to Reggie but I bet there’s a few folks who wished those grades came out a little sooner.”
It was an, “Ohhhhh snap! No he dinnit!!!!” TiVo moment.
by Hokie Andrew - Crosses Ocean, Lives to tell the tale... on Jan 2, 2007 2:06 PM EST reply actions
USC Song Girls Rule Dept:
Many, many thanks for the great USC Song Girl rear end-cleavage shot. I normally prefer boobaliscious shots, but that rear end was awesome.
Why can’t the networks show more cheerleaders and other fine babes throughout the telecast, like the good old days?
by Stacy Keibler Loves Me on Jan 2, 2007 2:10 PM EST reply actions
#7:
I kind of lost track of the quality of the broadcast once that fake punt was called. :(
by Rob on Jan 2, 2007 2:13 PM EST reply actions
Michigan Sucks the Big One Dept:
The Wolverines were a joke. They did not belong in the same field as USC in the Rose Bowl, and, of course, they did not deserve a second shot at tOSU, in place of the Gators.
If Summerall and Mushmouth can still get bowl announcing gigs, why can’t my all-time favorite Keith Jackson? Out of the rocking chair, with minimal preparation he would do a much better job than those two clowns, not to mention Fouts, Nessler, blah, blah, blah……
“Whoa Nellie, it’s a fumbleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee”
by Stacy Keibler Loves Me on Jan 2, 2007 2:15 PM EST reply actions
Upon further review, the USC cheerleader was wearing the proper undergarments, they were just tucked into her colon. The ruling on the field is “wedgie,” and USC is not charged a time-out.
Not that I’m trying to claim Ph.D. status on this sort of thing, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned from having dated a few cheerleaders in my time, it is that cheerleader undergarments are subject to Manhattan Project levels of regulation. There is simply no way a Song Girl would be allowed onto the field at the Rose Bowl wearing anything other than her official squad-sanctioned spankies, much less a thong or, heaven forfend, going commando.
Not that it wasn’t fun to imagine.
by Doug on Jan 2, 2007 2:21 PM EST reply actions
I knew a Song Girl when I lived out in Hawaii. She was a huge whore. I loved her.
by RaginCajunRebel on Jan 2, 2007 2:28 PM EST reply actions
Lemme see if I got this right….
USC got diddled by UCLA about 5-6 weeks ago. UCLA lost to the worst B. Bowden team since Billy Idol was hot
Michigan got manhandled by USC. Not just dominated, this was more like Mike Tyson vs Paid Lady of the Night… loser came out blackened and spitting teeth
Florida kicked FlaState so hard they still don’t shit right
So… this Mich team that turned out to be most mediocre was close in quality to say, FlaState. Seems to me like taking Fla and the points against tOSU just got sugared, salted, and bacon-greased. Mighty tasty.
by Futbawl Fan on Jan 2, 2007 2:32 PM EST reply actions
Gator – Boise State Connection:
I have a strong feeling that Meyer is going to use a whole bunch of non-standard plays (Statue of Liberty, Hook and Lateral, Fumblerooski-like (legal version), blah, blah, blah…) and put a nice surprise to the Cheaty Sweatervested One and Gang next week.
Boise rocked the nation and I bet Meyer is planning on something like that, noting how effective it was yesterday.
Given that tOSU played a bunch of vanilla offenses, they would be prime targets for skullduggery.
Also, he is not too far removed from coaching a “mid-major”, where he had to do that sort of stuff to beat the big boys.
by Stacy Keibler Loves Me on Jan 2, 2007 2:43 PM EST reply actions
#15: You were lucky, then.
The broadcast bothered me all the way up until Nebraska went for it on 4th-and-20 even though they were in field goal range, at which point Nebraska’s QB decided to roll right and chuck it out of bounds. Mercifully, that play caused me to lose vision in my right eye and half of my left, but I could still hear Summerall stammering on about playing bocce with Warren G. Harding in the Rose Garden.
by glacialspeed on Jan 2, 2007 2:46 PM EST reply actions
Comment on Comment No 18:
RaginCajunRebel: I would recommend you not call the USC Song Girl from Havaii a huge “W”. Why not call her:
“Chastity Challenged”?
by Stacy Keibler Loves Me on Jan 2, 2007 2:49 PM EST reply actions
There exists a HD version of the cheerleader-ass. The location I found it has been killed due to bandwidth issues. Keep looking, you’ll probably find it.
by Erik on Jan 2, 2007 3:11 PM EST reply actions
My personal favorite moment was Musberger admonishing D Jarrett for handing the ball to the DB after he tackled him (great catch).
Berger saw the replay and then said something like "Just Play the Game!! AND I MEAN IT!!!!! (followed by at least 4 full seconds of silence from Backstreit and Bawb).
by PistolPete on Jan 2, 2007 3:11 PM EST reply actions
#18
“I knew a Song Girl when I lived out in Hawaii.”
Sounds like the first line of the World’s Greatest Limerick.
by Sam on Jan 2, 2007 3:16 PM EST reply actions
SKLM—you’re right. I need to be more sensitive to these things. She wasn’t a whore…she just knew how to share. Chastity Challenged is another good way to put it, though.
by RaginCajunRebel on Jan 2, 2007 3:16 PM EST reply actions
- here you go:
I once knew a Song Girl in Hawaii
Who made this Cajun holler out “iiii-eeee!”
With sand in her crack,
My Trojan attacked,
Now often I think of her when I’m with wife-y.
by RaginCajunRebel on Jan 2, 2007 3:24 PM EST reply actions
We’re…somewhere between impressed, appalled, and a combination thereof, RCR. (wipes tear, vomits in bag.)
by Orson Swindle on Jan 2, 2007 3:26 PM EST reply actions
That’s actually the same reaction I get from my girlfriend after said encounters. (I’m not married, but wife-y fits in the limerick scheme than girlfriend.) Except for the impressed part.
by RaginCajunRebel on Jan 2, 2007 3:30 PM EST reply actions
“Chastity Challenged” sounds like the world’s greatest porn name.
by glacialspeed on Jan 2, 2007 3:39 PM EST reply actions
#30
"Chastity Challenged" sounds like the world’s greatest porn name.
You mean it isn’t already……….
by BamaTaxMan on Jan 2, 2007 4:23 PM EST reply actions
Excuse the slant rhyme in the first one…
Said Song Girl, dear Cajun, Aloha
I’ve failed to keep panties on so far
So crack out a Trojan
To get hula motion
That breaks up the average sofa
- or -
Said Song Girl, Aloha my Cajun
‘Neath my thong is a fire that’s ragin’
So crack out a Trojan
To get hula motion
And prevent any nether contagion
by DC Trojan on Jan 2, 2007 4:47 PM EST reply actions
wow. That’s great stuff, DCT. Great stuff all around.
by RaginCajunRebel on Jan 2, 2007 4:57 PM EST reply actions
There once was a Song Girl from Maui
Whose keister made Trojan say wowee.
The trunk looked invitin’,
DC felt his pants tighten,
So he hit that shit from here to Malawi.
by Anonymous because my mother would be ashamed of me on Jan 2, 2007 5:11 PM EST reply actions
If all of us analyzed the Zapruder film the way we analyzed the Song Girl clip, the Kennedy assasination would be solved in a day.
Nice to see Clemson won at pocket pool.
by SeaTrojan on Jan 2, 2007 8:17 PM EST reply actions
I know I should let this go, but the following is the result of profound insomnia last night, and I wanted to share the joy:
Ex-Song Girl, the aloha putain
Said "Cajun, come give me “man boudin”
If thoughts of turducken
Prompt bayou buttf*ckin’
Please use beurre blanc, you Ragin’ assman!
by DC Trojan on Jan 3, 2007 10:30 AM EST reply actions
That is the single greatest thing ever written. Thank you, sir.
by Orson Swindle on Jan 3, 2007 10:31 AM EST reply actions
Thank you both. If only I could get paid for my one meager skill in life.
by DC Trojan on Jan 3, 2007 3:21 PM EST reply actions
I’m so ashamed on so many levels… I hate Tommy Bowden.
by Willy Mac on Jan 3, 2007 4:03 PM EST reply actions

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