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re: James Spann for CGD Guest Picker
Posted on 11/3/15 at 11:42 am to FairhopeTider
Posted on 11/3/15 at 11:42 am to FairhopeTider
quote:whether or not they think they are or up for it is not relevant
They might not be up for something like that but it would be a great gesture both fanbases could get behind.
I don't think you could risk a sad emotional breakdown on TV for a show about football. They may do a piece on the show about it but no one wants to see choked up family and parents when they are just looking to enjoy a football saturday
Show them a good gesture off camera if that is what they would like to do, don't blast them to the nation on live TV
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Posted on 11/3/15 at 11:44 am to ThePoo
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I don't think you could risk a sad emotional breakdown on TV for a show about football. They may do a piece on the show about it but no one wants to see choked up family and parents when they are just looking to enjoy a football saturday
Valid Point
Posted on 11/3/15 at 12:02 pm to biggsc
I think it would be a ratings boon in Louisiana if Ritter is the guest picker and announces he will be officiating the game as well.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 12:03 pm to East Coast Band
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I think it would be a ratings boon in Louisiana if Ritter is the guest picker and announces he will be officiating the game as well.
I agree, Ritter would be awesome.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 12:12 pm to BowlJackson
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I'm still waiting for his smug arse to acknowledge how badly he botched snowpacalypse January 2014
He did that on his weather blog the day it happened. He apologized for being wrong.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 12:15 pm to FairhopeTider
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The way he absolutely dismissed any chance of snow/ice was completely irresponsible. He was literally laughing off the idea as "wishcasting." People were put into legitimate danger due to his forecast. That was an epic cluster that should've led to someone losing their job.
Every weather forecaster in the south was predicting the same damn thing. Spann wasn't the only guilty party that day. Every forecaster in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida was telling their viewing audience that the weather wouldn't arrive until late and would be nothing more than a nuisance when it did arrive.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 12:21 pm to Choctaw
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what's wrong with Gameday?
It's way too long and is thus filled with boring fluff. It was a great program when it was just 1 1/2 hours.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 12:27 pm to RollTide1987
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He did that on his weather blog the day it happened. He apologized for being wrong.
He did, but it didn't come across all that sincere to me. Instead of just saying he screwed up, he went on to excuse it away and say every other meteorologist got it wrong. I'm a JP Dice man, and while he also did get it wrong, he wasn't anywhere near as adamant as Spann was at saying there would be no travel problems.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 12:30 pm to WPBTiger
Is that the best Bama can do? Pathetic!
Posted on 11/3/15 at 12:30 pm to bamafan1001
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kicked off for drug use.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 12:46 pm to anc
quote:by what metric?
we do have the top meteorology program in the nation.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 12:51 pm to anc
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we do have the top meteorology program in the nation.
Maybe here but Mexico >>>> US in meterology
Posted on 11/3/15 at 12:56 pm to The Spleen
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Instead of just saying he screwed up, he went on to excuse it away and say every other meteorologist got it wrong.
So what? After 4/27/11 I can forgive Spann for almost anything. He saved a lot of lives that day.
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I'm a JP Dice man, and while he also did get it wrong, he wasn't anywhere near as adamant as Spann was at saying there would be no travel problems.
That just tells me that JP Dice lacks confidence in his forecasting abilities.
This post was edited on 11/3/15 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 11/3/15 at 1:06 pm to RollTide1987
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So what?
I mean is it really an apology if it isn't sincere?
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After 4/27/11 I can forgive Spann for almost anything. He saved a lot of lives that day.
Sure. And a lot of other meteorologists saved lives that day as well. I don't really have a problem with him missing the "dusting" forecast. They all did. His smugness in the days following it just rubbed me the wrong way, and I've always had a problem with his lack of humility. He eats up his perch on the pedestal people in this state put him on.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 1:11 pm to Choupique19
touche
Posted on 11/3/15 at 1:26 pm to biggsc
I vote Bernie Madoff via Skype from prison!
Posted on 11/3/15 at 1:36 pm to RollTide1987
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Every weather forecaster in the south was predicting the same damn thing. Spann wasn't the only guilty party that day. Every forecaster in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida was telling their viewing audience that the weather wouldn't arrive until late and would be nothing more than a nuisance when it did arrive
Every weatherman did. They were projecting the snow/ice storm to hit south of the Birmingham area. However, even as Spann would tell you, forecasting snow in Alabama is unpredictable. With that in mind, all it took for that storm to hit Birmingham was a slight tick upwards and slight drop in temperature. But he wouldn't even acknowledge that there was a chance of it hitting Bham and told everyone who thought otherwise that they were "wishcasting."
Again, its not that he missed it. That happens. However he was flat out dismissive about anything happening in Birmingham and that led to many being so unprepared that day. My extent of weather knowledge goes about as far as my Accuweather app will take me, but I don't think it takes certification from the National Weather Service to think that if there is a winter weather storm forecasted for Montgomery, then maybe Birmingham should at least be on alert.
Don't get me wrong, I think that douche Mickey Ferguson a Fox 6 should've been held a little more responsible as well. He was laughing it off with a grin that morning with some 7 year old by his side.
This post was edited on 11/3/15 at 1:41 pm
Posted on 11/3/15 at 2:07 pm to FairhopeTider
Since I don't want to talk GameDay in here anymore, I'll join in the meteorology conversation again. I think the biggest problem, from what I've heard, is that a lot of the winter weather vehicles we have in Birmingham were sent down 65 to help out with what was forecasted to hit the Gump. It was the next morning before they could sand the roads here. If they had been able to prepare or even come in after the fact, it would have given plenty of people a little traction.
The biggest problem in downtown Birmingham was gridlock. The schools called for closing around 11 or noon. I forget which. My wife called and said she was on the way. I said fine, I'll be home tonight. It wasn't 15 minutes before she called again, saying her van was stuck going up a hill in Homewood. She tried a couple different ways, but was sliding, and didn't want to get in a wreck so she parked it where she could and went inside a bakery.
So I left, planning on going to get her, and then our kids. It took me 5 hours to get from the Financial district to just past Vulcan where she was working. I had plenty of traction and could drive anywhere I wanted to, but the roads were just clogged with several thousand vehicles. And the way downtown is set up, the only ways out are slightly up hill. Either interstate or red mountain ramps, or going up by Vulcan.
Again, if we had not stupidly sent our road crews south, due to ALL the weather folks getting it wrong, it might have made a difference.
The biggest problem in downtown Birmingham was gridlock. The schools called for closing around 11 or noon. I forget which. My wife called and said she was on the way. I said fine, I'll be home tonight. It wasn't 15 minutes before she called again, saying her van was stuck going up a hill in Homewood. She tried a couple different ways, but was sliding, and didn't want to get in a wreck so she parked it where she could and went inside a bakery.
So I left, planning on going to get her, and then our kids. It took me 5 hours to get from the Financial district to just past Vulcan where she was working. I had plenty of traction and could drive anywhere I wanted to, but the roads were just clogged with several thousand vehicles. And the way downtown is set up, the only ways out are slightly up hill. Either interstate or red mountain ramps, or going up by Vulcan.
Again, if we had not stupidly sent our road crews south, due to ALL the weather folks getting it wrong, it might have made a difference.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 2:17 pm to Team Vote
quote]You mean the GOAT guest picker Brian Wilson?[/quote]
If he is the clown that dressed up like he was at a children's costume party then yes, I do.[
If he is the clown that dressed up like he was at a children's costume party then yes, I do.[
Posted on 11/3/15 at 2:34 pm to tigerfan in bamaland
My God I could watch her turn slightly to the left for hours
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