This guy likes to mention over and over how the MAC is not a major conference. I guess that makes him a minor league announcer.

(11-16-2010 10:04 PM)HUSKIEFOOTBALLFAN Wrote:  This guy likes to mention over and over how the MAC is not a major conference. I guess that makes him a minor league announcer.

yeah he's an idiot and has no clue what MAC football is all about.

About the most uninspired play-by-play and color commentary I have heard. They are making this game a snooze.

On another note, I never thought I'd see football players on the sideline holding freakin umbrellas. This is football!
[TomHanks] There are no umbrellas in football![/TomHanks]

How do you take a football player seriously holding an umbrella on the sideline? That's embarrassing. Man the **** up! Sheesh.

(11-16-2010 10:26 PM)axeme Wrote:  About the most uninspired play-by-play and color commentary I have heard. They are making this game a snooze.

On another note, I never thought I'd see football players on the sideline holding freakin umbrellas. This is football!
[TomHanks] There are no umbrellas in football![/TomHanks]

How do you take a football player seriously holding an umbrella on the sideline? That's embarrassing. Man the **** up! Sheesh.

i don't think he was holding it. he was just standing underneath it.

Having someone hold an umbrella for you may be worse. No umbrellas on the sidelines!

I found it interesting that the announcer guy said this is Ohio's biggest game in decades. They've played in 2 MAC Championship games in the last four or five years, and a couple of bowl games. How was this game any bigger than those games?

I didn't see the umbrella thing as I missed part of the game. What the F is that? That's on a Miley Cyrus, Party in the USA level.

(11-16-2010 10:06 PM)bobcat_backer Wrote:  

(11-16-2010 10:04 PM)HUSKIEFOOTBALLFAN Wrote:  This guy likes to mention over and over how the MAC is not a major conference. I guess that makes him a minor league announcer.

yeah he's an idiot and has no clue what MAC football is all about.

Yea, he acts like the MAC is a whole different (lower) level than the major conferences, as though Toledo didn't beat Purdue and NIU didn't beat Minnesota this year. Any of the better MAC teams have a good shot against the lesser Big 10 teams (not that that's saying all that much, really), even though they're almost always road games. Yes, if you put EMU against Ohio State it's a different story, but you could say that about most conferences.

(11-17-2010 02:52 AM)BrianNowicki Wrote:  I found it interesting that the announcer guy said this is Ohio's biggest game in decades. They've played in 2 MAC Championship games in the last four or five years, and a couple of bowl games. How was this game any bigger than those games?

I didn't see the umbrella thing as I missed part of the game. What the F is that? That's on a Miley Cyrus, Party in the USA level.

I agree, that comment made no sense.

I didn't see the umbrellas either - was that both sides, or one team?

The umbrellas were on the Ohio side.

The folks on the Temple side were standing under Al's big varsity jacket.

(11-16-2010 10:04 PM)HUSKIEFOOTBALLFAN Wrote:  This guy likes to mention over and over how the MAC is not a major conference. I guess that makes him a minor league announcer.

Those announcers were awful.... Absolutely awful last night, it was painful to listen to that.

Both the Play by Play and the color commentator (if you can call them that) are out done by the guys who do High School Football on public access..

(11-17-2010 02:52 AM)BrianNowicki Wrote:  I found it interesting that the announcer guy said this is Ohio's biggest game in decades. They've played in 2 MAC Championship games in the last four or five years, and a couple of bowl games. How was this game any bigger than those games?

I didn't see the umbrella thing as I missed part of the game. What the F is that? That's on a Miley Cyrus, Party in the USA level.

yeah when he said that, i knew we listeners were in for a long night of horrible broadcasting!

This guy is a clown. During the UAB-UCF game he criticized UAB for punting the ball right after they got done going for it on 4th down.

(11-17-2010 11:04 AM)axeme Wrote:  The umbrellas were on the Ohio side.

The folks on the Temple side were standing under Al's big varsity jacket.

LOL ... Al looked like the BMOC in that big jacket!

that jacket is from Steve & Barry's!

(11-17-2010 09:49 PM)DSniu41 Wrote:  that jacket is from Steve & Barry's!

another excellent post! LOL

I don't know. David Norrie was awfully complimentary to NIU the last two weeks. Maybe he just knows football.

Gotta believe the umbrellas should be in ESPN's Not Top Ten Highlights this week.