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ESPN should run the Jefferson Pilot intro before the LSU/Tenn game
Posted on 10/5/22 at 8:45 pm
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Posted on 10/5/22 at 9:12 pm to magildachunks
Don't forget about Jefferson Pilot's dear friend Raycom!
Posted on 10/5/22 at 9:14 pm to magildachunks
The three Daves
Posted on 10/5/22 at 9:15 pm to magildachunks
Posted on 10/5/22 at 9:27 pm to Auburntiger
Lol, old people in Georgia still call TBS "The Super Station."
Posted on 10/5/22 at 10:13 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
Would be nice if broadcast in SD for effect. Nothing like a classic JP Winsheild Wiper game.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 10:17 pm to magildachunks
JP sports was the best. Nobody has come close to broadcasting games. Why do all good things have to end? 
Posted on 10/5/22 at 10:20 pm to magildachunks
Dave Dave and Dave. Listening to them because you were too hungover to make it to the 1130 game.
This post was edited on 10/5/22 at 10:21 pm
Posted on 10/6/22 at 12:27 am to magildachunks
I'm ok with that. Tennessee never lost those JP games back in the day.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 12:31 am to StopRobot
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The three Daves
One of the Rant’s best posters is one of the three Daves.
This post was edited on 10/6/22 at 1:10 am
Posted on 10/6/22 at 3:00 am to MullenBoys
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Why do all good things have to end?
Corporate greed. Too much is never enough. Destroys originality and makes everything and everyone a carbon copy of everything else.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 5:12 am to genuineLSUtiger
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Corporate greed. Too much is never enough. Destroys originality and makes everything and everyone a carbon copy of everything else.
Preach.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 9:48 am to AUCom96
I know that it's notstalgia, but the Jefferson Pilot games weren't all that great. Low budget and always felt like the 4th or 5th most important SEC game that weekend. And plus Dave the color commentator had an undiagnosed stroke or brain damage and was really terrible.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:20 am to Sgt Tuffnuts
Miss JP games even though their graphics look like an Atari..
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:45 am to Sgt Tuffnuts
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I know that it's notstalgia, but the Jefferson Pilot games weren't all that great. Low budget and always felt like the 4th or 5th most important SEC game that weekend. And plus Dave the color commentator had an undiagnosed stroke or brain damage and was really terrible.
That was all the appeal though. You know you weren’t getting an LSU-Florida clash of the titans. But you might get a surprisingly close Ole Miss-Vandy game or a WTF Mississippi State upset against a blue blood. Or something truly wild like the Bluegrass Miracle.
The other thing to consider is that the JP era was before every game was on TV. Heck, there were a lot of conference games that weren’t televised back then. So for fans of certain schools, it was literally one of the only times you could see your team play on TV. As a State fan in the 2000’s, I feel like 90% of our televised games were on JP Sports.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 10:52 am to Captain Falcon
Couldn’t watch Ole Miss/Auburn, Ole Miss/Georgia or Ole Miss/Vandy unless it was on JP.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 11:04 am to Sgt Tuffnuts
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Low budget and always felt like the 4th or 5th most important SEC game that weekend.
The pecking order for SEC games was CBS 2:30, ESPN 6:30, then 11:30 JP for a long time and that was it. It wasn’t until around 2000 that espn2 starting doing their 8:00 SEC games, which was chosen after the JP game was picked.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 11:04 am to reggierayreb
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Couldn’t watch Ole Miss/Auburn, Ole Miss/Georgia or Ole Miss/Vandy unless it was on JP.
At one point State/Auburn being on JP Sports was a safer bet than the sun coming up in the morning.
I can only assume that 3-2 happened because it wasn’t on JP. A true crime against nature.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 11:06 am to magildachunks
Shoot, do the old TBS intro. The original 11:30 game with Bob Neal, Tim Foley and Craig Sager (RIP) in the studio.
Posted on 10/6/22 at 11:41 am to magildachunks
I think the last place teams in each division should play at Legion Field at 11AM the day of the SEC CG and have the game broadcast with Jefferson Pilot livery only in Standard Definition.
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