CURIOUS INDEX, 1/31/08

For anyone who cares…I was surprised to learn Clay Travis of CBSSportsline.com has actually reproduced (he didn’t mention his wife was expecting so as not to jinx anything)! Fox Clay Travis was born on Sunday, during the Buick Open, apparently. Congratulations to Clay and his wife…let’s hope he doesn’t take after his mama and become a Big Ten fan.

You don’t think the ratings decline might also have to do with the drawn-out, overwrought, production methods of Fox? (except the Rose Bowl, of course)

The fact that this season was a total clusterfuck, and the BCS was totally exposed for the fraud that it is probably had something to do with the ratings as well.

Gentleman Masher, to which Fox are you referring? The network or the new Travis?

Don’t forget about this point for Wazzu.

Let’s not also forget the fact that nobody outside the state of Ohio really believed the Bucknuts had a chance against le Tigre. Ohio St. has mastered the flawed system, but that doesn’t make them a good football team.

i’d like to mention that i used to work at a bar with the same lame name as the one torrey davis likes to drank at…only to increase the lameness that included their street address as well…i.e. “venue 1215.”

for those of you that know the venue in t’town, i worked there in its early days…well before it was the kind of place you might get shot at.

David Cutcliffe is already bring Fulmer’s stratgey of winning to Duke.

“we eat so many shrimp, i got iodine poisonin”

that line never gets old

Torrey Davis must not have headed the waring of the Schlitz Malt Liquor spokesman circa 1990: Remember, 21 and up, to open it up.

They also brought us such classics as : You can ride the Bull, but you can’t ride with it.

Classic.

I’ll give credit where credit was due: Though I believe now defunct, “Gator Haters” (did i spell this right?) in Athens, GA was a good name, I thought.

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Monday at 8 on FOX, the smash new hit “Thom Brennerman is a Dumbass” makes its debut. Check it out.

5-star entertainment! – Billy Packer, CBS Sports
Who is that moron? – Bob Knight, famous coach

“…in my days all we did was chief out on the quarter pound, gone off coke but this shit (tussin) will knock you down…”

Oscar award-winning 3 6 Mafia. Love it.

i was expecting for tye-dye for a ROBO-TRIPPING post.

What about the bonus point for Davis for being a Gator?

Gerry, when did you work at the Venue?

Fox’s coverage is horrible. I want to watch a football game not talking heads blabbering ad nauseum. Plus it was a total recruiting tool for Meyer (championship game).

Speaking of overdone productions; how come every time there is a discussion of how long the game is no one ever says, “hey, lets cut the number of commercial breaks or lengths of them.” No, let’s start the clock when the the ball is kicked. No one ever mentions that pay-per-view games or non televised games are no where near the length of the televised version.

#15: All hail the almighty dollar!!! Yes, the ads are part of the problem. The other part is the droning on of knuckleheads as we come back from commercial breaks… and on CBS they also do some goofball schtick intros of players tossing the ball, looking into the camera, and trying to look like a bad ass. I can live without it. JUST SHOW THE F’N GAME.

@ 15 re commercials…

Shhh. I’ve said that to my friends for years, but talking like that on a public forum is unsafe. The people with all the money may have to silence you.

I fail to see how a one-year decline in ratings is going to kill the BCS. In 2005, Texas/USC did just about the biggest rating ever, biggest since the 1987 Fiesta Bowl between Penn State & Miami if I recall correctly. And in 2006, the OSU/Florida title game cleaned up as did the USC/Michigan Rose Bowl. As long as the big teams get in, there’s good ratings.

I don’t think Fox or ABC was complaining about the big TV numbers Notre Dame did in BCS games, even if they were getting blown out.

And I think ESPN would like to keep those 20-something games that bring in better ratings than just about anything non-NFL that they have.

15 – I never understood why sporting events wouldn’t have less commercials…but charge more for the commercials. They’d still get their money and advertisers might be more willing to buy because less commercials would mean less channel-changing.

1. - Why do that when they can do both: charge more for each and show more of ‘em. It’s the American way.

I watched several SEC games over the internet, hooked up to my HDTV. LF has few, if any, commercials (just some annoying music during breaks).

They reversed those clock rules last year which drastically reduced the number of plays, rightfully so. I don’t give a crap about the length of games. I’d rather not CFB go the route of PPV either, so I’ll deal with all the commercials. Gives me a chance to freshen my beverage.

I think lame names for clubs aren’t limited to just college towns. They all suck.

picture me rollin’ (“in a benz that’s mine and isn’t stolen”),

i worked there in 2001.

GD, That was right after it opened as the Venue right? Wasn’t Derrick managing/owning it then?
I was about go into a story about being in there and playing some guitar with a few friends of mine but the loss of brain cells around that time kicked it. It may have been the Tusk then still (the event I was thinking of). At any rate I know I was in there on occasion during the time period that you were working there.

I agree commercials suck but I can live with them (refresh as well as relieve) I just hate that no ones mentions that when length of games are discussed. I am also under no illusions that it will get better on that front.

rollin’,

i think it became the venue sometime in early 2000. and yes, it was owned/operated by derrick the entire time i worked there. good times…good times.

Bad Columbia club names:
“Rust”
“Drink”
“Liquid Nightlife”
“Cockpit”
“Club Ra”
“Element”

Rollin’ and Gerry – this isn’t going to end up in a story about you two ladies and a buddy of yours going camping and one of you woke up from a dream in which you went skiing, is it?

not now it isn’t

Not for nothing, but Club 9 is a fucking hole. Then again, it’s in Durham, so … QEDMF, I guess.

Hey Olson,

Have you ever had a Fulmer Cup Hall of Fame? I’m reading the Sports Illustrated story about the 2000 University of Washington team. Seems like they could be right up there.

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