TV Announcers for the Nebraska Game

Every announcer with the exception of a couple on FSN (god, I hope Dave Lapham isn’t calling the game this weekend) seems to hate UT. Millen should not be allowed on TV.

His knowledge of football is worst than a two year olds. He could not run a team (President for the Lions) and he definitely cannot call one. Every time I have to watch a game he calls it absolutely drives me insane.

Watched him rant last night after Titans-Jags regarding the impending rule changes on violent hits in the NFL. He made Skip Bayless appear thoughtful and well-spoken.

Poor Steve Young. First he had to deal with Emmitt Smith (whom I loved as a player) saying incomprehensible and perplexing things. Now Millen. After he mangled / crippled / gutted the Lions, the one thing I’m impressed with is that he’d show his face on TV at all.

When the underdog is up, I think the tendency is to focus on what the ranked team is doing wrong, rather than what the dog is doing right.

I want to say it was in the 3rd quarter or early in the 4th when UT’s punter pinned NU deep…our gunner got to the ball just as it was about to go into the endzone for a TB. Well replays showed the our gunner’s foot was on the line when he knocked it backwards into the field and Millen just went nuts saying the ball should be at the 20 instead of inside the 5.

Well, as Millen had to explain after the commercial break, in college ball, it doesn’t matter if the player is in the endzone, only if the ball crosses the plain.

Interesting how Millen wasn’t “quite” as indignant when he had to explain that he had been wrong.

Hopefully we don’t get the Oliver Stone of broadcasters again…then again, he still might be better than Dave “He just face raped the guy” Lapham who is calling the ISU game this Saturday.

No commentators would explicitly call the fans in the stadium classless, and when they were explaining that the crowd was booing because they thought that the injury was faked in order to slow down the pace of Nebraska’s hurry up offense on that drive, that was in fact the truth. There is nothing biased about reporting the facts.

I thought we were getting some calls as well, but I watched the game a second time, and it turned out that Nebraska really was just committing a lot of penalties. The only call the officials blew in our favor was the receiver getting one foot in bounds on a third down play. The receiver was called out, but Nebraska snapped the ball for their punt so quickly that the play couldn’t be reviewed. Ironically enough, the crowd didn’t actually boo on that occasion. Every time they did boo it was after the officials had clearly made the correct call.

I thought Nebraska fans were supposed to be pretty knowledgeable, but they seemed more irrational and juvenile Saturday. Incidentally, the officials missed some pretty obvious takedowns by Husker offensive linemen.

While I agree with everything said about Millen to this point, I’m surprised that no one is specifically calling out McDonough’s blatant corn pone fandom. His pro-Nebraskan urgings – particularly in the second half – were palpable. You kind of expect one-sided idiocy from the ex-jock “color” analyst (i.e., Andre Ware, Matt Millen, Craig James), not the play-by-play commentator.

Glad that my bias for the Horns hasn’t left me the lone person noticing the one-sided commentary. The discussion of our downing the ball off their goal line clearly showed the commentator to be a pouty, whiney Husker fan. They simply refused to give Texas credit for anything that we did good.

Also, I talked to an alumni last night that was at the game. He said the Husker fans were terrible and that it was particularly bad when they were booing their own players and booing us when our guy got injured.

was when Millen said we would not lose another game this year. Considering the source, we should be very, very afraid.

made the franchise the laughing stock of the NFL. How any Media Group could hire him for his football expertise is beyond me.

I’d like to hear more about this alleged conspiracy among Big 12 officials to punish Nebraska for leaving. What, exactly, are they trying to gain by this? Do they think the other schools will like them more or what? And why aren’t they also conspiring against Colorado?