Herbie and College Game Day

LonghornDave

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So now I need a new source for the Heisman hopefuls, Dark horses, and prediction contests. Looks scripted and just painful. Turned off tv changed batteries in the smoke detectors for no reason.
 
It's getting a little old.
Regardless of what I'm watching or listening to, it immediately goes off once this b.s. starts. The other night, I had to turn off a high school game because of the halftime show "panel".
 
Either real tears or it's posing. And no off screen onions, or videos of "Old Yeller" playing to the side.

"Looks scripted and just painful."

100% chance of it being scripted, everything on TV is. Written by the writers, then gone over as a group with input from the producer, maybe Herb himself but doubtful, then back to him to read off the teleprompter.

Dude does look like he's in pain. Maybe he's doing that old CIA trick of having a tack in his sock to cheat on the lie detector test. Maybe someone broke terrible wind in the studio, and the foul odor is lingering like death itself in the stale and fetid air. Hard to say from this angle.

What can be said is that segment, like ESPN itself, is a giant toilet snake that's so massive that there's truly no use in even trying to flush. Just call the plumber if you're at home, or close the lid and abscond if away from the house.
 
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Duck Dodgers said:
Either real tears or it's posing. And no off screen onions, or videos of "Old Yeller" playing to the side.

"Looks scripted and just painful."

100% chance of it being scripted, everything on TV is. Written by the writers, then gone over as a group with input from the producer, maybe Herb himself but doubtful, then back to him to read off the teleprompter.

Dude does look like he's in pain. Maybe he's doing that old CIA trick of having a tack in his sock to cheat on the lie detector test. Maybe someone broke terrible wind in the studio, and the foul odor is lingering like death itself in the stale and fetid air. Hard to say from this angle.

What can be said is that segment, like ESPN itself, is a giant toilet snake that's so massive that there's truly no use in even trying to flush. Just call the plumber if you're at home, or close the lid and abscond if away from the house.
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Or sell the house "as is"
 
LonghornDave said:
Or sell the house "as is"
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I was working out in my garage, muted that entire segment.
The other games were painful .... I just wanna break and watch football guys. This isn’t political. I have heard them, over and over and over and your voices have been heard.....mr announcer, move on. Mention it, but move on.
 
Duck Dodgers said:
Either real tears or it's posing. And no off screen onions, or videos of "Old Yeller" playing to the side.

"Looks scripted and just painful."

100% chance of it being scripted, everything on TV is. Written by the writers, then gone over as a group with input from the producer, maybe Herb himself but doubtful, then back to him to read off the teleprompter.

Dude does look like he's in pain. Maybe he's doing that old CIA trick of having a tack in his sock to cheat on the lie detector test. Maybe someone broke terrible wind in the studio, and the foul odor is lingering like death itself in the stale and fetid air. Hard to say from this angle.

What can be said is that segment, like ESPN itself, is a giant toilet snake that's so massive that there's truly no use in even trying to flush. Just call the plumber if you're at home, or close the lid and abscond if away from the house.
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The first tine I lost interest in Gameday was today. Very little football a lot of opinions on non football issies
 
GameDay and all of ESPN's college football programming today has been unwatchable. I'm tired of being beaten over the head with the BLM b.s. I expect it to be laid on really thick next Saturday night when we play UTEP. I am not to blame because DeShawn decides to struggle with a police officer and gets shot in the process. I am not responsible because Tyrone has a rap sheet 5 miles long. I am not responsible for Laquanda having 12 kids by 10 different men. I was taught personal responsibility. If personal responsibility = white privilege then I guess I'm guilty as charged.
 
Dionysus said:
Also with all the stupid commercials any sport is almost unwatchable any more
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I watch old games on LHN that I record. If I watch "Live", I pause for a good 20-25 minutes at least to skip through all the SJW lecturing BS commercials. Plus, I can only watch the same 8 commercials promoting Longhorn Legends etc so many times.
 
NRHorn said:
I was working out in my garage, muted that entire segment.
The other games were painful .... I just wanna break and watch football guys. This isn’t political. I have heard them, over and over and over and your voices have been heard.....mr announcer, move on. Mention it, but move on.
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Sorry ESPN but most of us don't need or want a social justice lecture or shaming from your "experts". Just do what we PAID via cable you to do ... provide professional coverage of college sports or UT sports if LHN.
 
What bother's me about our current state of football is that other than the different conferences picking different views, you are a nazi if you disagree with BLM or Covid concerns for football. When Biden blamed trump for the Big 10 deciding not play football, well this is absurd. And a grown man crying that we need to do more....more what? More crying? Sports should be a religion in and of itself, not some platform for winning a congressional seat or selling ads for tires and pizzas.
 
I_Dont_Exist said:
I watch next-to-nothing live for just this reason. Longhorns football and very occasionally a news story like coverage of the riots hoping to see the authorities grow a pair.
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You're a smart guy, IDE.
I, nor my family, ever, never, ever watch any TV except for Longhorn and Cowboys football. My kids think that is all TV is for. Lol
Haven't figured out how to avoid the commercials during those two events yet, but other than that, that is the extent of my exposure to the taint.
I don't see how any sane person can stand more.
 
LonghornDave said:


So now I need a new source for the Heisman hopefuls, Dark horses, and prediction contests. Looks scripted and just painful. Turned off tv changed batteries in the smoke detectors for no reason.
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Reminds me of a pathetic anti-gun rant by Bob Costas a few years ago in primetime...but worse.
 
Herbstreit was saying something about if your black you have to drive with your hands on the wheel at 10 and 2 and if you wear Nike gear your a suspect ? Or a hoodie.
At 3 am I have to have my hands at 10 and 2. Unfortunately a lot of blacks are committing crime wearing hoodies and gangsta gear. I definitely avoid them especially late at night. Until the black community addresses the fact that they commit a lot of crime and address it from within then that culture will continue to have issues.
 
RainH2burntO said:
You're a smart guy, IDE.
I, nor my family, ever, never, ever watch any TV except for Longhorn and Cowboys football. My kids think that is all TV is for. Lol
Haven't figured out how to avoid the commercials during those two events yet, but other than that, that is the extent of my exposure to the taint.
I don't see how any sane person can stand more.
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Record it and put some mileage on the FF button.
 
I also switch channels when that baloney comes on. This whole “systemic racism” and “BLM” is is beyond cognitive thought. I watched Herbie in the same way you cant avert your eyes from a car wreck. What a tool.
To be more accurate, they should remove the V from BLM.
 
IvanDiabloHorn said:
I also switch channels when that baloney comes on. This whole “systemic racism” and “BLM” is is beyond cognitive thought. I watched Herbie in the same way you cant avert your eyes from a car wreck. What a tool.
To be more accurate, they should remove the V from BLM.
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I watched it again this morning. It was worse than I remembered.
 
The more I think of this pathetic display the angrier I get. Kirk’s kids attended a privileged nearly all white private school that is boy’s only. The black kids are few and far between and mostly recruited for sports. Hey Kirk, take the first step rather than lecturing the public.
 
If it makes you feel any better about Herbie, it's all an act. They get provided scripts to read off the teleprompter, same way as the late night comics all get scripted jokes to tell. None of this is authentic - it's pushed down from management level as to what they all need to say.

ESPN has been garbage for years, even before they became a political operation. They've gotten too big, too influential on sports itself, and have become part of the story, instead of just reporting what happened.

One of the many dreadful things they do is show on Sportcenter, and make a big deal out of, hard hits that result in brain damage to the players. Then the next day have a hand wringing program highlighting all the damage to players, and cloaking themselves and brave truth tellers fighting for these poor players. Then back to highlights of concussions on the nightly show.

The only feedback loop possible is to just not watch it. Cut your cord, don't pay for ESPN. Don't pay for the LHN and the 23-1/2 hours of filler that's on it. Vote with your wallet, and maybe it'll change. Doubtful though. Once an entertainment venue goes one sided political, even plummeting ratings won't change it.

Every year the Academy Awards show gets lower ratings, yet, they seemingly relish in turning off 50% of their audience. Same with the late night comedy bozos. You'd think that with 14 of them fighting for the same leftist viewers, someone would think, man if I was just right wing, or even center, I'd get 50% of the audience that can't stand these shows.

But they don't. Anyone who tried to put on such a show would be blacklisted by everyone else in show biz. So they keep fighting for the same small audience share, telling themselves that their terrible ratings are OK and it's not their fault, it's because there are so many more choices to watch that it's natural that they have half the audience they used to.

I still wonder what old boy Herbie used for the fake tears. Maybe he did the tack in the shoe trick, maybe he put some Ben Gay in his drawers and used that to cause the streaming tears. In any case it's as fake as a 3 dollar bill.

As I said on another post - favorite line from Jaws is "You're not going to be like this on the boat are you Mr. Qunn?". Surely the talking heads won't keep this up for more than a week or two will they? But if they do, Sideshow Bob was correct - kill your TV and take up the ancient arts of conversation. And scrimshaw.
 
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