The ESPN announcers at the Washington game

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  1. QBLuke

    QBLuke Hickey Da God

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    Our or fabulous DE, Rahim "The Dream" Aleem
     
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  2. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    Actually, that excuses some of the mistakes more than it amplifies them. At that level of the TV industry, your announcers are (should be) doing a lot of homework on their team. To do a game on Thursday night, pack up, move a few hundred miles and do another game two nights later is a lot to expect from an announcer team. I have no doubt now that their preparation time for LSU/UW was not what it should have been.
     
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  3. Fishhead

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    Correct.
     
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  4. lsudolemite

    lsudolemite CodeJockey Extraordinaire

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    Oh I remember all right. Between Oregon stinking up the place, those announcers, and that turf shown in HD burning out my retinas, it was almost unwatchable.
     
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  5. whatever

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    I turned the sound off about 10 minutes into the game, because I couldn't stand one more minute of Bob Davies praising the coaches, QB, waterboy every 10 seconds. Then I had to figure out how to turn off the closed captioning that automatically comes on with mute. Their coverage was about 95% UW and 5% LSU. A little more balance is required for a national TV audience. I can understand that level of imbalance if it was the Tigervision crew talking up the home team, but not for national TV.
     
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  6. Richdog

    Richdog 02 Cecilia alumni champs

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    don't mute next time, just turn the volume down to 1 and you won't be able to hear it and the captioning won't come on.
     
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  7. Richdog

    Richdog 02 Cecilia alumni champs

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    If they didn't have time to do homework, they should have spoken less.
    And what about the camera crew? We missed 1 TD because they were showing the crowd and crazy coach on the sidelines.
    Anyone see the guy with the pink cap and wrestling tights?
     
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  8. LSUtiger327

    LSUtiger327 Pow right in da kissa

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    yeah it was marc jones that kept messing it up.

    although now i'm calling #7 petric patterson.

    maybe it'll stick.
     
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  9. Bengal B

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    I would have loved to have turned the sound off and listened to the radio broadcast with Jim Hawthorne but there is about a 10 second delay between radio and the HD broadcast.
     
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  10. Atreus21

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    Actually, I thought towards the end of the game, they were slobbering all over Les. They gave him lots of credit for the Katrina season and such.

    However, I didn't tune in till the second half anyway.
     
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