Posts tagged “ESPN”
Several times when they went to commercial during tonight’s College Football Championship game, ESPN was playing Gimme Shelter from the 1969 Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed. It’s an awesome song. The entire album is fantastic, and I’ve loved it since I was in middle school. I am just having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that a song released five and a half decades ago is still so popular (and well known?) that it works. For comparison, if ESPN had existed in 1969, and if the CFP existed in 1969, they’d be playing Carry Me Back to Old Virginny by Alma Gluck or It’s a Long Way to Tipperary by John McCormack. Those were “hits” right at the start of World War I and — I don’t think I’m going out on a limb here — teenagers at the tail end of the 60s weren’t rocking out to Alma Gluck.
And the Stones are still touring!
The Offseason
In which I mourn the ending of another college football season
BCS Citi National Championship Game Preview
Notes about the upcoming game
The Five Worst Losses in Gator Football History
Notes on the greatest collapses in Florida football history
2009 – 2010 iCal College Bowl Schedule
It’s the most wonderful time of the year …
Tom Brady and the NFL
Will the NFL collapse without Brady?
ESPN Has Nothing to Fear
On watching televised football games
Sunday Afternoon Football
Los Angeles’ TimeWarner cable — previously known as Adelphia — is rotten. It is quite possibly the worst cable company in America. Two years ago they dropped the ESPN Gameplan, so there was no way for me to watch the Gators unless I hauled my butt over to Westwood to catch them at the UGA
Link Droppings
A collection of interesting links
Bullet Points
Some random musings