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re: The Twitter account that had the old espn highlights of S games sent me down a rabbit hole
Posted on 2/21/21 at 8:28 am to bamameister
Posted on 2/21/21 at 8:28 am to bamameister
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So far, pretty much everything you just said about Georgia is pure theory, get back when it happens. Personally scoring 21 unanswered points against Georgia was just as satisfying as beating Florida by less than a TD
Which years were you on the team?
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Posted on 2/21/21 at 8:40 am to themicah85
The problem with college football is the same problem with everything these days - since we like it, we have made it where we have access to it all the time, any time we want it. It used to be that if you wanted to watch a college football game, you had to be ready when it came on. If you missed it, you weren't going to get to see it again. That four hour period was probably the only time you would ever see that particular contest between those two teams. I can remember the long months between seasons and thinking as the team ran onto the field for the first game of the year, "frick yes, I haven't seen Alabama play football for so long!" Now I can watch old games all day long, any time I want, on YouTube. It used to be that if you wanted to talk about college football, you had to physically find someone else who wanted to do the same. Now I can post on here, or read messages on here, any time I want. Want to hear the media talking about college football? No more waiting for the Finebaum show on the radio. It is all available whenever I want for as much as I want. It makes the whole experience much less special.
Experiments on animals have shown repeatedly that constant overexposure to stimuli reduces their effect. That is what is going on here.
Experiments on animals have shown repeatedly that constant overexposure to stimuli reduces their effect. That is what is going on here.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 8:45 am to 1801
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once upon a time tv networks used to provide a 'telecast' of our college football - which was just basically commentating the natural cultural hype leading up to the game - and the game itself.
Do you honestly believe that ESPN has done more damage to sports than our own SEC hit pieces. You don't have local media accentuating the positives, regardless of the score, like the good ole days. Beat writers were not paid assassins. The shock jocks have been covering our favorite teams for decades now. Paul Finebaum was on the cutting edge of the new era in stupid. That's been at least back to the 80s. And what have we been sowing as a culture of sports whinners since? Content in the SEC Rant would be a good start.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 8:52 am to themicah85
I'm 39, and college football is extremely different and I agree that it has lost it's pageantry. There are many factors why, but it's not the same and I doubt it ever will be. Just like with everything else, people find a way to ruin a good thing, and the reasons always involve money and power.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 8:54 am to themicah85
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I just don't have it anymore
you'll have it again if UT ever gets back to being a regular contender for conference titles
Posted on 2/21/21 at 9:05 am to themicah85
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I'll admit it could possibly be Tennessee's lack of production but I really think its deeper than that. Any other 35ish yr olds feel that way?
Most of what you remember would be the BCS era. The BCA era was wildly entertaining nationwide and especially in the SEC. Over 16 seasons we never saw the same national title matchup and no team repeated as SEC champion.
That era was an anomaly over the history of CFB, and it really skyrocketed the popularity of the sport. Now the sport’s popularity is heading the other way.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 9:13 am to bamameister
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ESPN
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our own SEC hit pieces
quote:I think they've all contributed to harm college football and sports in general. only one of those 3 are afforded an entire saturday of 12+ hours on television for the world to see.
shock jocks
quote:we've never had that privilege in Columbia SC or the entire state of South Carolina for the Gamecocks. Herman Helms at The Snake newspaper - many many decades ago - was Paul Finebaum before Paul Finebaum was Paul Finebaum.
Beat writers were not paid assassins.
the Upstate school in SC established a network long ago that reached into local media and government throughout our state that had one goal - inhibit/lay harm to the University of South Carolina in every way possible, through any means possible. in large part their efforts have been rewarded.
This post was edited on 2/21/21 at 9:15 am
Posted on 2/21/21 at 9:23 am to themicah85
Agree - the sport has lost a lot of the regional uniqueness and fun it had before. The general blandness that is everything on ESPN and the whole playoff thing contributes a lot, I think. The college football world is just a lot smaller than it used to be and because of that everything from California to Michigan to Florida is a lot more similar. Call it college football globalization.
And I'm 35 as well, so exact same era as you.
And I'm 35 as well, so exact same era as you.
This post was edited on 2/21/21 at 9:28 am
Posted on 2/21/21 at 9:27 am to Im Back
Holy Mary Mother of Jesus! STFU. You are insufferable.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 9:32 am to 1801
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I think they've all contributed to harm college football and sports in general. only one of those 3 are afforded an entire saturday of 12+ hours on television for the world to see.
So do I. But it's the human condition. Politicians talk to each other like they are posting in the Rant. There is a mean spirit that is dominating every conversation. No honor, no decorum, no civility, no class.
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we've never had that privilege in Columbia SC or the entire state of South Carolina for the Gamecocks. Herman Helms at The Snake newspaper - many many decades ago - was Paul Finebaum before Paul Finebaum was Paul Finebaum.
the Upstate school in SC established a network long ago that reached into local media and government throughout our state that had one goal - inhibit/lay harm to the University of South Carolina in every way possible, through any means possible. in large part their efforts have been rewarded.
Which creates fatigue. I don't read local stuff and I seldom venture over to the hit squads employed by ESPN or FoxSports during or after the season. I have deliberately, and with forethought, isolated myself from the talking heads years ago. I just got tired of it, like you.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:08 am to themicah85
I still love college football, watch every Alabama game and attend a couple of games per year. But College football in general is not the same for me overall anymore. I think life just becomes busier and more important as you get older. I used to watch every college game I could and would watch the ESPN highlights. And several NFL games. But now, I just watch Alabama games plus maybe one more game. If auburn is losing or has a chance to lose or the next biggest SEC game. And once ESPN became a liberal propaganda machine, I only watch actual sports on that channel.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:48 am to TheTideMustRoll
I think you’re right. I’m 30. Therefore, most of my earlier memories of CFB are roughly 2003ish and on. To me, that was a golden era. Georgia wasn’t great every year but I was young and dumb enough to really buy into the any team any year idea. I understand now I was naive. The access is so very different now for the reasons you described, especially YouTube. I enjoy watching some of the older games but I can literally go back right now and watch ANY game that I want. That’s only a recent thing. I also enjoyed many of the older announcers much more. Even the Jefferson pilot station games had a certain feel to them. Furthermore, there’s the shows on SECN and ESPN that come on every day. When I was growing up CFB had much smaller espn hits and obviously no secn. Comcast sports southeast was the jam. I know getting older gives different perspective especially since I just recently had a child but man. The magic of it all just is not the same.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 11:38 am to RoscoeSanCarlos
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Holy Mary Mother of Jesus! STFU. You are insufferable.
I don't know about all that. All I know is that if you are a fan of a team that has won so much over the last decade + you don't get as sappy and forlorn and long for the good ole days like fans of lesser teams.
I love football just like it is. It's still very exciting to me. But, as mentioned, the team I support actually does things that are fun to watch.
I don't need 1980's era stadiums, black and white television reception, lack of Internet, no ESPN and only one game on television each Saturday to bring the joy of the game back.
This post was edited on 2/21/21 at 11:46 am
Posted on 2/21/21 at 12:06 pm to themicah85
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Any other 35ish yr olds feel that way?
I'm in my early 30s and my growing dissatisfaction with sports is a reflection of my growing dissatisfaction with culture.
There is a concerted effort to nationalize all aspects of culture - partly social driven, partly commercial driven, partly political driven. And I fundamentally disagree with that effort and with the tools used to accomplish it.
In conclusion: things used to be better, get off my lawn.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 12:09 pm to Muthsera
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There is a concerted effort to nationalize all aspects of culture - partly social driven, partly commercial driven, partly political driven. And I fundamentally disagree with that effort and with the tools used to accomplish it.
In conclusion: things used to be better, get off my lawn.
Excellent summation and I 100% agree
This post was edited on 2/21/21 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 2/21/21 at 12:19 pm to themicah85
There are certain games that should be played...
Bama and UT end of story.
Ole Miss and LSU in Baton Rouge on Halloween Night every single year.
Auburn and Georgia every single year.
Georgia and Florida in Jacksonville.
Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Texas and Texas A&M.
Southern Cal and Notre Dame.
Mississippi State and UCF.
Bama and UT end of story.
Ole Miss and LSU in Baton Rouge on Halloween Night every single year.
Auburn and Georgia every single year.
Georgia and Florida in Jacksonville.
Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Texas and Texas A&M.
Southern Cal and Notre Dame.
Mississippi State and UCF.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 12:24 pm to themicah85
The media championing for pay to play, opting out, and politics has ruined it for me.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 1:45 pm to themicah85
What twitter account is it?
Posted on 2/21/21 at 3:56 pm to themicah85
There was a change in how they cover all sports in the early 2000s, led by ESPN, that turned me off of all sports programming that isn't watching a live game. But it's not just sports, the death of journalism in general happened over the same time period. I haven't watched any news since before then either, and can't stand to read 99% of the commentary that all outlets insert into their online "news articles". Anyway, for sports part of it is the depth to which they overanalyze combined with the need to have polarizing opinions (a sad oxymoron), which became necessary to fill 10 networks worth of programming for 24/7/365. Every day there is some new stupid argument about greatest of all time, which is just ridiculous. We must hyperbolize everything to the point of not enjoying it. No sooner does anyone have a good game or a team win something that they must be compared to something else. There is no real celebration anymore. You must be the most/best/ever/biggest/over-the-top to get the twitter likes. Welcome to idiocracy, it happened a while ago.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 3:57 pm to calcotron
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calcotron
Anything excellent job
Everything being the "GOAT" or the "WORST EVER" or something else hyperbolic is just exhausting.
This post was edited on 2/21/21 at 3:58 pm
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