The West winner coming out of the Iron Bowl was daring enough. Picking Auburn this year to Atlanta suggest that being "the greatest mind in the ESPN universe" might still put him slightly behind the "rain man." Personally, I think a little too much love from the national media has convinced Herbie to take the role as pot stirrer. Last year ESPN's Chris Lowe was rocking the SEC with his Ole Miss pick, to dominate the west. Come on Herbie, you are better than that.
To tell you the truth, I think almost ALL the "talking heads on ESPN are morons...including Herbstreit. There's so much sports talk on cable these days that, in order to fill airtime, these morons stoop to just spouting off at the mouth...with no real underlying rational thought or analysis. In fact, their opinions are on par with most of us here at Tf. A perfect example is the guy who lambasted Miles for taking away Porter's scholarship. He didn't even know that the NCAA had changed the rules concerning counting back early enrolees to the previous class...after signing day had come and gone. One of our posters had to point out his total ignorance via twitter. The total lack of intelligent, rational, coherent thought that's totally devoid of higher intelligence and education on behalf of the sports commentators is appalling...and what's gloomier still is the fact that these moronic talking heads are totally empowered by hosts of equally ignorant "sports-'tards" that hang on every word that comes out of the commentator's mouths (or rear ends). Grantland Rice and his sports reporting confreres are rolling over in their graves in disgust these days. The seemingly infinite lack of quality in cable sports programming is the number one reason that I don't even have cable in my house... ...well, that and the fact that Jerry Springer and Maury Povich are on free TV. At least when I watch their shows I feel a lot better about myself. :thumb:
....and, beyond that, it's all just a bunch of speculative non-sense. who gives a rat's azz who herbie, or any other talking head, "thinks" is going to win the SEC, SEC west, NC, or any other game. it's all speculation and doesn't mean jack. the joy is in watching it all play out. i get excited like anyone else and what to read or view anything related to college football, and watch all of that crap, too, but, honestly, i could give a shyt what those idiots think or who they predict is going to do what.
After posting this, I took my family out to eat and ESPN was on all the TVs...but the sound was turned down so you could only hear the background music in the place. It was GREAT...you could only "see" the highlights...great diving catches by outfielders, awesome double plays...miracle, clutch hits...even some bloopers. Just think how great ESPN would be if they never showed video of the actual talking heads and all you could see was sports. You could press the mute button, crank up some Jimi Hendrix, and really enjoy the real human drama of the games. Too bad they don't do that all the time. Shortly thereafter, it was 15 or 20 minutes of commentator video and the imaginary sports spittle was dribbling out of their mouths. The conversation at the table was good...my son was talking about school and the characters in his life. The food was pretty good too..
Very interesting. If I'm not mistaken, what you have experienced is what was affectionately referred to in ancient history, as a Family Moment. Through exhaustive research (internet of course) I found that past generations of primitive cultures would actually spend hours of non interrupted time communicating, verbally, in person, back and forth over the most common subjects. They would do this over meals and living rooms and outdoor activities and stuff. Children, instead of demonstrating acts of boredom and sounding preoccupied, actually found such discussions and activities as enjoyable. It was reported, they would then pass on these social skills and principals to their next of kin, essentially, through the same crude methods. It sounds like, through no fault of your own, this lack of volume has accidentally created such a family moment.
