Okay, there’s a pretty nifty web site, awfulannouncing.blogspot.com, which you should check out. As a sports fan, you’ll be amused. But I’m not talking about the site right now. (Though I am disappointed that those guys didn’t herald what awfulness transpired announcer-wise last night during the Fiesta Bowl.)
What I’m talking about is a couple of [...]
Category Archives: College Pigskin
Awful Announcing
January 6, 2009 – 9:37 am
Is this a Deja Vu?
January 2, 2009 – 9:11 pm
First Quarter Score: Utah 21, Alabama 0.
Is this a rerun of U of L coached by The Schnell vs. the Crimson Tide in the Fiesta Bowl?
– Seedy K
The Real JZ is on Her Game
January 2, 2009 – 5:28 pm
Nobody in sports telecasting is quite as dispensible as the breathlessly inane Jeanne Zelasko. There are others we despise because of their verbosity or overexposure or the sound of their voice. Like Vitale. Or McCarver. Or that fric and frac and toupee trio they trot out for NBA games. But none matches Zelasko for universally [...]
SchnellSpeak: 01.01.09
January 1, 2009 – 11:56 am
It’s a new year, my fellow followers of The Schnell’s siren syntax. And whom (or is it who?) more than him (or is it he?) to give us our first breath of mirth on the first 24 of the spanking new annum.
Now that FAU’s season is over, the Pigskin Poet is left to muse over [...]
Free At Last
December 31, 2008 – 10:28 am
Well, despite the reality that I correctly prognosticated 6 of the last 7 bowl games, I’m still a few places behind the leader in Joey The Vig’s Bowl Pool. So, thankfully, Joey’s cousin, the inimitable Slice, has moved on. It wasn’t too bad having him around for a couple of days. He mostly sat on [...]
SchnellSpeak: 12.29.08
December 29, 2008 – 9:06 am
Now that Howard Schnellenberger’s 2008 football season is over, we’re soon going to have to bid a fond adieu to the ol’ quotemeister, his syntactic gloriosity and quaint folkisms. But this is to let you know I’m gonna drag it out as long as I can, which is as long as The Schnell makes public [...]
House Guest For The Holidays
December 27, 2008 – 11:41 pm
It is the yin and yang of life. The Schnell’s FAU Fighting Owls snag the Motown Bowl. I’m the only player that gets it right with Joey The Vig. So, being a skeptical sort, not to mention a fellow who likes to keep all the lettuce, Joey The Vig wonders what I knew that nobody [...]
SchnellSpeak: 12.27.08
December 27, 2008 – 9:08 pm
One can only assume the greatest bowl coach in college football history — Need I spell out his name, Howard Schnellenberger? — had his FAU Fighting Owls believe to the core of their souls that a victory over Central Michigan’s Chippewas in the Motor City Bowl would change their lives, his life and that of [...]
Schnell Slices Another Scalp
December 26, 2008 – 11:54 pm
As fellow Schnell acolyte Eric Crawford wrote to me just after the final horn sounded in Motown, “And the Pipe adds another scalp to the Totem Pole of Tradition tonight in the Motor City Bowl.” Howard Schnellenberger remains undefeated as a head coach in bowl games after his feisty FAU Fighting Owls held off Central [...]
The Rigors of Recruitment
December 26, 2008 – 1:03 pm
Drugs. Alcohol. Girls taking off their clothes and loving each other. Coaches flaunting the number of flat screens in their homes. University presidents flaunting their international connections.
Just the usual stuff when recruiting hot shot prepsters for college football and basketball.
While none of this should come as a surprise to any sports fan with an objective [...]