Comments on: LE GOOD NEWS ABOUT LE BOWL DU ORANGE

By: DC Trojan

DC Trojan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:52:49 +0000

yoyofutbawl @ 26: Bitch set him up.

By: Out of Conference

Out of Conference — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:40:42 +0000

Ahh, that ain’t nuttn’ but Gerry Curl.

By: Mr Pelican Pants

Mr Pelican Pants — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:31:19 +0000

#26
Or Richard Pryor, maybe even Michael Jackson during a Pepsi commercial when his Soul-Glo went ablaze…
Soooooooouuuuuulllllll Glooooooooo……

By: yoyofutbawl

yoyofutbawl — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:20:17 +0000

I just realized something – that is NOT Barry Alvarez at the UN – it’s actually Marion Barry having an unfortunate free-basing accident during a speech.

By: DC Trojan

DC Trojan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:02:09 +0000

Crabapple Buck @ 9: Murdoch’s been too busy spending his money fucking up soccer in the UK to do any damage here. The proof? Fox College [your region]. Only a complete idiot would sign up with them as a primary carrier of conference games (Hansen FTW!)

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:53:04 +0000

The Fox Sugar Bowl call last year featured Terry and Howie. It was pretty sweet.

By: Kernel

Kernel — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:51:45 +0000

I’m not a man who likes to paint with such a broad brush, but I feel confident in saying that if you like the work of Thom Brenneman, you are, unequivocally, a moron.

By: drogue

drogue — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:39:31 +0000

dude

By: El Hombre

El Hombre — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:26:18 +0000

Thom Brennaman rides on his father’s (Marty, an excellent announcer for the Reds for God knows how long) coattails more than Joe Buck does, if that’s even possible.

By: beast in 'bama

beast in 'bama — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:54:45 +0000

@ #15 skinnyphatman:
You just got back from a Nick Saban motivational seminar, didn’t you?

By: D. N. Nation

D. N. Nation — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:45:35 +0000

Er, best you can hope for.

By: D. N. Nation

D. N. Nation — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:44:05 +0000

Thom’s promotion to essentially FOX’ #2 PBP guy is just baffling. I mean, I guess I thought Joey Buck’s rapid ascent to #1 was pretty wacky back in the mid-90s, but at least he serves as a somewhat less insane foil to Tim McCarver and somewhat less comotose foil to Troy Aikman.

Brennaman? Dude brings down everyone he’s with. The nauseating voice should be enough easily to get him dumped down to LF Daves territory (though he lacks the ironic detachment that can make the Daves somewhat enjoyable, at least on a hipster level), but it also just so happens that he’s a complete buffoon. We knew this waaay back in the olden days of 2001, when FOX decided it would be fine if Thom was their chief NLCS PBP guy, despite being the Diamondbacks’ announcer in the regular season. What resulted was homerism that even dwarfs his Hawai’i-boosting; this man actually called the Atlanta Braves “like a little league team” after a couple of errors.

So that’s bad enough, right? Well no, FOX decides that Thom should also do ACC basketball for a while, so a few years after the NLCS debacle we’ve got Thom accidentally dropping “yellow” on air in reference to people of Asian heritage. I kid you not. Sadly this episode came a few too many years before the YouTube era, so it’s been lost to history.

And then there’s Tuesday night. Really, this man is so horrible that the best you can hopeful is a mix of annoyance and ambivalence. Too bad that rarely happens. Instead, what you get is somewhat like what would happen if Ralph Wiggum narrated your dearly departed spouse’s funeral.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:43:42 +0000

“They’re honored to be playing at the Orange Bowl against a fine team like Virginia Tech,” said Coach Mark Mangino of his Jayhawk players during this morning’s press conference in Miami, which was followed by a FedEx funded all-you-can-eat donuts buffet in his honor.

During a more private interview with LAT, however, Mangino candidly shared that, “In all honesty, I don’t think an Orange beats Tostitos, or just plain Sugar. Or Papajohns.com, or Chik-fil-a or Outback, for that matter.” After a hearty, finger-crushing handshake, the Coach ended the interview before waddling forcefully away.

Mangino, however, accidentally left behind his playbook, which the Times has uncovered is in actuality a cleverly disguised Applebee’s takeout menu.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-elliott3jan03,1,2288057.column?coll=la-utilities-sports

By: Bobby Decatur

Bobby Decatur — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:41:04 +0000

People don’t necessarily hate on the Fox announcers – I was down with Papa Hayden and the Munsonesque (not really) beer truck thing. But I still claim the Sugar Bowl call as the absolute worst ever. If you’ve ever heard a dead guy whine, that’s pretty much Brenneman in a nutshell.

By: skinnyphatman

skinnyphatman — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:40:03 +0000

# 5,
No Madeline Albright did not light a fart. I am uncomfortable even thinking that let alone typing it. How do I know she did not, I am still here, you are still there (I assume you are on this planet somewhere), there are some discernable figures in the picture. Imagine if you will 9/11 times a million… No, never mind, not even that could bring to mind the devistation which would be wrought. I am going to stop thinking about that now and head to my fallout shelter, just in case these comments have increased the likelyhood of such an event. I am not even sure that the fallout shelter would protect me. God save us all!