As I watch the game on Big Ten Network, I am left to wonder
As I watch the game on Big Ten Network, I am left to wonder whether the Big Ten Network thought 5 of every six ads during Football Saturdays would be ads by the member schools with the occasionaly Ro-Tel/Velveeta ad??? Seriously. No one else willing to pay for advertising on this network?
September 19th, 2009 at 1:45 PM ^
with special feature: personal trainer from "Biggest Loser" will give you recorded motivational one liners.
September 19th, 2009 at 1:48 PM ^
Why our defense sucks.
September 19th, 2009 at 2:09 PM ^
I mean, the car division declined?
September 19th, 2009 at 2:36 PM ^
I wonder why Charisa Thompson is so hot.
September 19th, 2009 at 2:43 PM ^
I wonder why I'm suddenly craving Rotel queso dip.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:14 PM ^
You have to spell ROTEL in red and green peppers. It's mandatory.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:31 PM ^
That doesn't exactly appeal to me.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:19 PM ^
"Raggy! Ro-tel motel?"
"You wanna stay in a no-tell motel, Scoob?"
"Uh-huh! Uh-huh!"
"Okay, Scoob! Don't forget the Scooby Snacks!"
"Rooby, Rooby-Roooooooo!"
September 19th, 2009 at 2:49 PM ^
Almost thought I had an out there .... He's got to do his reading/homework today. Sadly, I was over-ruled by my wife. Good episode of "The Penguins of Madagascar", though.
September 19th, 2009 at 4:40 PM ^
F your life.
That is an unacceptable situation that your are required to remedy before the next game.
Seriously. I am not kidding. Overruled by the wife so your kid can watch a show about F'ing penguins? And the kid is old enough to read and write? Teach the kid a lesson in patience for 3 damn hours, and if your wife protests, you overrule her.
September 19th, 2009 at 2:55 PM ^
Reminds me of 30 Rock when Tracy Morgan's character bought all the advertising for his show so that he could swear. BTN just doesn't care anymore!
September 19th, 2009 at 2:55 PM ^
From a network who airs entire several hour blocks of "campus programming" advertising, I doubt they care.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:13 PM ^
Wayne Larivie (sp) has any other descriptive phrases other than 'sun splashed afternoon. Its sunny? really?
September 19th, 2009 at 3:19 PM ^
The BTN coverage is actually pretty good.
The one thing I don't get is the ring of blood that shows up in the red zone when teams are inside the 20.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:25 PM ^
That's actually in the stadium, not on TV coverage. Johnny Sears brought his curse back with him.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:25 PM ^
ring of unity
September 19th, 2009 at 3:24 PM ^
I think rotel taste disgusting. Its microwaved cheese dip.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:24 PM ^
I was just getting sick of commercials ending and then cutting back to the game mid play, or the terrible camera angles that caused me to miss most of what was happening. I couldn't take much more.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:26 PM ^
And disappointing.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:24 PM ^
My god, that announcing was terrible:
1. They totally missed DEATH ROH's interception off the tip. Now, I'll give them that it was hard to see initially if he caught it or not, but he did, the refs said he did, and then Michigan got the ball there. Not once did they use the word "interception". They even claimed that Eastern "failed to convert on 4th down" a bit later.
2. On the next drive they said EMU was "hanging in there, down by 11". EMU was down by 21, which is "trying to cover the spread", not "hanging in there".
3. Their "defensive stop of the game" showed two plays from Michigan's goal-line stand in the third quarter - the first, the gang tackle for a loss on 3rd and 2 (which was indeed an excellent play), and the second, the 4th-and-goal attempt that failed in spite of Clowncar Cissoko turning the wrong way and falling down. Nothing says "defensive stop of the game" like "good thing the offense didn't execute".
Sheesh.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:26 PM ^
How about failing to cut away from a replay of the previous play, thus missing an entire play (Forcier to Hemingway, maybe)?
September 19th, 2009 at 3:28 PM ^
I didn't even know that play happened.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:27 PM ^
completely miss Nard Dog's 2nd int? Mathews caught a punt, we took a commercial break and next thing you know EMU has the ball.
September 19th, 2009 at 4:16 PM ^
...and point out the announcers' mistakes. I guess I could understand some of the mistakes if the announcers were distracted by something. Could they have been running the cameras, too? That would explain a lot.
September 19th, 2009 at 9:26 PM ^
Don't you mean Death Rah?
Was I the only one irritated by the 3.5 quarters of mispronunciation?
September 19th, 2009 at 9:50 PM ^
Mispronunciations are common, but that one was very annoying.
Does Death Roh become household by the end of this season or next?
September 19th, 2009 at 3:31 PM ^
How about his comment "that what they call giving him the Skittles."
Huh? Both announcers were complete doofuses.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:35 PM ^
Earlier, when they were talking about how far Eastern and Michigan's campus are, Chris Martin said it depended on how fast he drove...
September 19th, 2009 at 4:07 PM ^
I actually liked the announcing. I also liked the way the BTN broadcasted the game. It was a nice change of pace from the constant commercial breaks I see on ESPN and NBC. There were fewer commercials in this game by far.
September 19th, 2009 at 4:15 PM ^
Last year during basketball season, the BTN was running ads for MarquisJet at one point. Lest anyone be unfamiliar with their product, they sell time in private jets in 25-hour blocks. The base price for one 25-hour block is $132,000.
Then they probably showed a RO-TEL ad, I can't remember. Also I need a chili pepper font.
September 19th, 2009 at 5:15 PM ^
New network with 1/5 of the sporting country as an audience. Give it time.
September 19th, 2009 at 9:32 PM ^
Watching MSU-ND on NBC, with its four-minute commercial breaks, unhelpful graphics (how many timeouts did each team have? They wouldn't tell us), cheesy personal-interest stories about ND players, and Tom Hammond, left me thankful we were on the BTN today.
September 19th, 2009 at 9:26 PM ^
The camera work was dreadfully dreadful today.