COLLEGE FOOTBALL BLOGGER AWARDS: SHAMELESS VOTE PUMPING.

by Orson on Jan 17, 2007 12:51 PM EST

Before anything else is mentioned, we should tell you that we hate awards we're nominated for, since like Groucho Marx we don't join clubs due to our suspicion of any club accepting us as a member. However, we're all for other people getting them, especially the people whose work helps us kill day after precious day on this mortal coil.

Being a member doesn't mean we have to wear these again, right? Because that's the last club we joined, and those things are sweltering in 98 degree heat.

Given that, you have scant time to vote in this year's College Football Blogger Awards. They recognize the oddball exploit of college football blogging and those who are particularly innovative and good at it. The only rationale for the picks came in terms of value added: were the nominees doing something different and new, and not just rehashing what print journalists do in online form? Were they funny and insightful while doing it? And while doing so, did they send us free swag at polite intervals throughout the year?

(Full disclosure: we contributed to the final selection committee, but generally slacked off during most of this whole process. We pressed for one nomination for ourselves, and one only: the nod for the Lee Corso Song. We were nominated for the Michael Lewis interview, but if we actually sang for something, we wanted a nod. You should totally vote for Friday Night Lites in that category, anyway.)

The full ballot is over at Rocky Top Talk, where Joel's moved whole sierras to get this thing together. We're nominated in the following; click any of the snappy logos to vote.

Should we win, we can only hope to come up with a speech as grateful and mind-searing as that of Sacha Baron-Cohen at the Golden Globes.

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I love the Lee Corso song so much, I have placed it on my iPod, complete with the photo as the “cover art.”

by Oren Incandenza on Jan 17, 2007 1:03 PM EST reply actions

I wonder if anyone has made it a cellphone ringtone yet.

by Andy on Jan 17, 2007 1:23 PM EST reply actions

How much credit can we give EDSBS for that Appalachian (is Hot Hot Hot!) post, and how much depended on Appalachian themselves producing such an astounding brainfuck of a promotional ad?

The source material was so ripe, so dripping with possibility — like a big, juicy peach about to fall off the tree — that all EDSBS had to do was put its hands under it and catch. Forget barrels; it was a swimming pool full of fish at the mercy of Orson the atomic bomb. Not to take anything away from the destruction it caused, but it was pretty obvious what would happen.

On the other hand, I’ve probably read it at least ten times since then, and every single time I nearly die laughing. I guess there’s something to be said for that.

by Jeremy on Jan 17, 2007 1:44 PM EST reply actions