CURIOUS INDEX, 1/31/08
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Today’s installment brought to you by an unholy combination of cold and flu drugs. Sizzurp for all! Drankin’ outside will get you one. Torrey Davis, DT for Florida, was cited Jan. 19th for underage possession of alcohol outside Venue, a nightclub in downtown Gainesville that, like every other nightclub in a college town, has a phenomenally lame name. Davis picks up one point in the Fulmer Cup for being shaken and stirred while not being over the age of 21. Duke picks up a few points just because they’re overacheivers and all, earning points for a nightclub scuffle at the equally dumbly named “Club 9″ in Durham. Eron Riley, 20, was cited for public affray and Austin Kelly, 18, was cited for failure to disperse and resisting, delaying and obstructing officers. Affray’s one of our favorites: it basically equals a lot of hollerin’ and being threatening not just to one person, but many. Meaning Ed Orgeron could, if the cops really wanted to die, be charged with this every single day of his life. Per the Wiz, four out of five of the BCS’ post-season games showed a decline in viewers. This happens when the games suck, for the most part; even the competitive Orange Bowl featured two teams that, for the vulgar national palate, evoke more “who dat?” than anything else. < |
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the croominator says:
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:58 am
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The Gentleman Masher says:
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)
January 31st, 2008 at 10:17 am
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Last Dragon says:
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:39 am
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rusty says:
Gentleman Masher, to which Fox are you referring? The network or the new Travis?
January 31st, 2008 at 10:39 am
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Brian O'Blivion says:
Don’t forget about this point for Wazzu.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:41 am
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southernmost says:
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:43 am
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gerry dorsey says:
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:52 am
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TideInTx says:
David Cutcliffe is already bring Fulmer’s stratgey of winning to Duke.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:52 am
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alanon says:
“we eat so many shrimp, i got iodine poisonin”
that line never gets old
January 31st, 2008 at 10:52 am
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Hang up & Listen says:
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:05 am
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Brian says:
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:32 am
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yoyofutbawl says:
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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
January 31st, 2008 at 11:32 am
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robert says:
“…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.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:36 am
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big eleventh blog says:
i was expecting for tye-dye for a ROBO-TRIPPING post.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:37 am
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Out of Conference says:
What about the bonus point for Davis for being a Gator?
January 31st, 2008 at 12:34 pm
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Picture Me Rollin says:
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:41 pm
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UgasTexan says:
#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.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
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undecided (formerly Tebow for Heisman) says:
@ 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.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:27 pm
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Edsall is God says:
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:34 pm
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Edsall is God says:
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:36 pm
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oc phil says:
#19 – Why do that when they can do both: charge more for each and show more of ‘em. It’s the American way.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:49 pm
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Brian O'Blivion says:
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
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Club Manilla says:
I think lame names for clubs aren’t limited to just college towns. They all suck.
January 31st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
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gerry dorsey says:
picture me rollin’ (”in a benz that’s mine and isn’t stolen”),
i worked there in 2001.
January 31st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
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Picture Me Rollin says:
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:10 pm
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Picture Me Rollin says:
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:13 pm
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gerry dorsey says:
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.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
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woohoo says:
Bad Columbia club names:
“Rust”
“Drink”
“Liquid Nightlife”
“Cockpit”
“Club Ra”
“Element”
January 31st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
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Out of Conference says:
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?
January 31st, 2008 at 5:09 pm
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Picture Me Rollin says:
not now it isn’t
January 31st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
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Eirishis says:
Not for nothing, but Club 9 is a fucking hole. Then again, it’s in Durham, so … QEDMF, I guess.
January 31st, 2008 at 5:23 pm
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Lawrence Ross says:
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.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/victoryandruins/
January 31st, 2008 at 7:40 pm