Mayo announcers may have been worst ever

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short ornery norwegian said:
didn't see game live - finally watched it Saturday night.

My opinion - the Play-by-Play guy was a jerk. He seemed to go out of his way to put down the Sponsor's product. if I was a member of the Bowl Committee, or a big-wig with the Duke's Mayo company, watching this game on national TV - and I saw the PbP announcer mocking my product and spitting food into a wastebasket on camera, I would be furious. one of the first rules of broadcasting - you don't rip the sponsors.

it's one thing to have fun with a situation. I thought the PbP guy went way beyond that and was deliberately being rude and disrespectful. He sounded like someone who did not want to be there, and was having a temper tantrum. bottom line for me - it was unprofessional. If I was his boss, the PbP guy would have been in my office on Monday getting his butt chewed.
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Sparlimb said:
Grok says:

Oh, you don't know Flavor Flav? Well, let me enlighten you. He's just this guy who decided that the best way to tell time is by wearing a giant clock around his neck because, you know, wristwatches are so passé. He's a former member of some obscure rap group called Public Enemy, where he was known for screaming "Yeah, boyeee!" like it was his job—which, to be fair, it kind of was. His claim to fame? Starring in a reality show where he tried to find love among dozens of women who apparently couldn't see the clock ticking right in front of their faces. And let's not forget his culinary ventures; he's the mastermind behind the groundbreaking concept of selling chicken and ribs, because who else would think of that? Truly, a cultural icon, if by "cultural" you mean "reality TV meets clock fetish."
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Somebody on the game thread said he saved Red Lobster. What's with that?
 






Sparlimb said:
Grok says:

Oh, you don't know Flavor Flav? Well, let me enlighten you. He's just this guy who decided that the best way to tell time is by wearing a giant clock around his neck because, you know, wristwatches are so passé. He's a former member of some obscure rap group called Public Enemy, where he was known for screaming "Yeah, boyeee!" like it was his job—which, to be fair, it kind of was. His claim to fame? Starring in a reality show where he tried to find love among dozens of women who apparently couldn't see the clock ticking right in front of their faces. And let's not forget his culinary ventures; he's the mastermind behind the groundbreaking concept of selling chicken and ribs, because who else would think of that? Truly, a cultural icon, if by "cultural" you mean "reality TV meets clock fetish."
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Public Enemy is an obscure rap group?? They were one of the most influential artists of the 80s/90s.
 










One of the announcers was Matt Barrie, he couldn't announce or call a Pee Wee football game. He used to work for Channel 5 in Ft. Worth, I have no idea how he got this Gig he has now, but it could be short lived. Congrats to Minnesota on their bowl game win.
 

I think it was a case of the sponsor had a lot of demands as far as mentions and stuff like that. So the announcers probably had to do some of this sort of stuff as part of the contract. I bet if there's Duke's Mayo Bowl next year you will probably find the same crap.

Bowl games, money talks. Now maybe they went a little over the top with it but you could tell with all the Dukes Mayo stuff that wasn't even related to the announcers that there was some sort of mandate about the amount of coverage the sponsor would get.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
didn't see game live - finally watched it Saturday night.

My opinion - the Play-by-Play guy was a jerk. He seemed to go out of his way to put down the Sponsor's product. if I was a member of the Bowl Committee, or a big-wig with the Duke's Mayo company, watching this game on national TV - and I saw the PbP announcer mocking my product and spitting food into a wastebasket on camera, I would be furious. one of the first rules of broadcasting - you don't rip the sponsors.

it's one thing to have fun with a situation. I thought the PbP guy went way beyond that and was deliberately being rude and disrespectful. He sounded like someone who did not want to be there, and was having a temper tantrum. bottom line for me - it was unprofessional. If I was his boss, the PbP guy would have been in my office on Monday getting his butt chewed.
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He didn't specifically rag on Duke's mayo. He expressed disgust at some of the combinations. It's not like they gave him a BLT and he spit it out and said that it would have been so much better with Hellmanns. It's entirely possible that the broadcast team was told to give extreme reactions to odd food combinations.
Nobody is deciding not to buy Dukes mayo today because a guy didn't like a smear of mayo on a Dilly Bar.
 


GopherEnEspaña said:
You guys. We were playing in the Duke's Mayo bowl in a half empty stadium. Our coach got a waterfall of mayo dumped on him by Flavor Flav. You need to relax and and just enjoy that our boys made it to a bowl game and came out with a W and good vibes heading into the offseason.

Relax, life is short. Have fun.
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This does kind of put it into perspective.
 

Some of the podcast/youtube crews out there could probably do an unscripted livecast during games and attract a following if they’re entertaining or informative enough. Mcafee and his crew have done one at times on the alternate. ESPN. The broadcast crews are TBH mostly meh at best. Irritating in some cases. We all have out tastes.

A GopherHole zoom call live stream during games would be interesting. Maybe too many latencies in streaming versus cable to make it work. No filters.
 



Gilthorp57 said:
Martez's high school and mine are in the same hs conference. I could see these announcers saying Merryville vs Merrillville which happens quite a bit.
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Yeah but the announcers said the right tackle is a local kid from *mumble* Edina or something similar. My guess is that they did not know Quinn had moved to left tackle.
 

I rewatched the game yesterday and it really struck me how little the cameras showed the bands or fans of either team. There were a lot of wide shots showing the stadium was empty and continual mayo tasting in the booth, and other mayo content... but very very little actual college football atmosphere. It is pretty easy/cheap to throw some cheering fans or the bands on the screen after a big play but there was less of that than any other bowl game, by my observation.

All in all a pretty bad broadcast.
 

Schnauzer said:
I rewatched the game yesterday and it really struck me how little the cameras showed the bands or fans of either team. There were a lot of wide shots showing the stadium was empty and continual mayo tasting in the booth, and other mayo content... but very very little actual college football atmosphere. It is pretty easy/cheap to throw some cheering fans or the bands on the screen after a big play but there was less of that than any other bowl game, by my observation.

All in all a pretty bad broadcast.
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I'm not a fan of any of the ABC/ESPN broadcasts. Glad we don't have many games on their networks. I think they are the worst at showing replays too, which always bothers me.
 

GopherEnEspaña said:
You guys. We were playing in the Duke's Mayo bowl in a half empty stadium. Our coach got a waterfall of mayo dumped on him by Flavor Flav. You need to relax and and just enjoy that our boys made it to a bowl game and came out with a W and good vibes heading into the offseason.

Relax, life is short. Have fun.
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Literally, this. Is there room for fun in anything? My theory is that things in America have gotten so miserable across so many systems that we are now cynical about everything.
 

Mr. 131 said:
It was stunning. The older fellow almost seemed like he was watching his first football game.
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- From the thread about the Illinois/Minnesota game broadcast


This you? Do we have to seek permission to be underwhelmed with a Gopher Football game broadcast? Who makes up the rules as to what is "fun" and what is poor quality? People do tend to offer their opinions on a message board.
 

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