Prepare For More Commercials During College Football Telecasts
by Akula Wolf on May 12, 2011 4:14 PM EDT
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PrintHonestly I couldn't care less whether or not there is an NFL season this fall. Or I didn't care until I read this post by Dr. Saturday. ESPN will make up some of its losses by charging more for advertisements during college football broadcasts, and probably by adding more commercials to the games as well.
The minimum viewers can expect if college football is seen as the new golden ticket to the 18-to-39-year-old male: Fewer clever in-house spots of the GameDay gang, and more of schlubby everymen being assaulted by animals on a violent quest for beer, Howie Long insulting your manhood and capacity for independent thought and anthems about stoically enduring women who talk. The worst case: Extended commercial intrusion during every single timeout, every single change of possession and after Every. Single. Kickoff. (At least there won't be a two-minute warning, but don't think for a second they won't mull it over if the numbers are good enough.)
Now I'm praying the owners and players come to an agreement before the start of the season, because the commercials are one reason why I find the NFL unbearable. Between the seemingly constant score-commercial-kickoff-commercial-run-run-pass-punt-commercial streaks and the standard and vanilla John Fox bitch-brand affront to entertainment, I'd rather be napping.
But I suppose I can deal with the additional commercials so long as they keep John Gruden away from the college broadcasts.
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I'm with you
I have not watched a full NFL game in at least 2 years (although I still play fantasy, go figure). If NCSU isn’t involved, then I typically do not watch football. I find it a lot like hockey and soccer, if I can see the whole field/rink, such as if I am watching live, then I enjoy it much more than watching on tv where much of the action is off camera.
Also, women . . . women be talkin’, woo boy you can’t stop a woman from talkin’
Even on ESPN Tres?
or Ocho….whatever we usually get slotted for a thrilling OOC schedule.
by Sportin'L.A.Gear on May 12, 2011 4:37 PM EDT reply actions
but Howie has a point 'bout them man steps. Ford has themselves some good trucks,
but those man steps! hopes i didn’t offend any owners of Ford trucks with man steps.
i gots me an ol’ 98 Chevy K1500 wit 216000 miles on it and it don’t have no man steps and the bed sits high off the ground.
and you fellas are going to get it for those anti-women statements. :-)
My 2004 F150 has
212,000 miles – and NO manstep. It’s only on its 3rd alternator, and its 5th set of tires. Wait, does this mean sbas is a chick?!?
by Undertoe on May 12, 2011 6:46 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
no-sbas2 is not a chick. was it the "man steps" stuff or my comments
about the anti-women statements? if the latter, i just have a healthy respect for women as hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. :-)
i am only on my fourth set of tires on my Chevy and i got rid of the first set because they were sorry ass tires that kept getting punctured when off road. got some Goodrich All-terrain TA’s. i get about 75-80 thousand on each set.
i do like the new Ford trucks especially the ones with the v-6 with 300+ horsepower
and a highway mpg of 23. but no man steps.
Yaeh, I have been fighting the urge to
trade in. I was always a Chevy guy until this one. It’s been good, but it does eat tires.
And I know what you mean about that “woman scorned” thing…
i didn't forsee this turning into a discussion about man steps
But I’m good with it. I can also report that my car does not have any man steps anywhere.
[1969: Howie Long’s Chevy skids to an obnoxious dust-scattering halt near Apollo 11.]
Long: Hey, Armstrong, you, uh, you left your man steps down.
Armstrong: How the fuck am I supposed to get back in the lunar module, asshole?
Ditto
No man steps on my car either, but the 40 mpg while averaging about 65 is pretty nice. Of course run it up over than, and it quickly drops down to about 35 mpgs. Still much better than I was getting in my truck w/o man steps.
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