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QB Kirk Herbstreit (Frosted Quips)

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About a week of that, and he'll start to miss the far less annoying sounds of Buckeye fans bitching at him.
 
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Buckeye86;1881776; said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are the lyrics of Rocky Top partially about having sex with an animal out in the woods that may have been a cat or a bear, but they're really not so sure about it?
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Yes, you are wrong. They were sure that it was half bear and half cat. Zoophillia those Vols are damn proud of, too.
 
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Posted in another thread, but for the record:

10. Media endorsements: In a scathing piece on Poynter's website after news broke that Nike had been paying a group of ESPN on-air talent to serve as emcees, the former New York Times writer David Cay Johnston did not mince words: "The payments that Disney lets some of its ESPN on-air reporters take can be described in one word: corrupt... What if Citibank paid the Wall Street Journal's David Wessel? The Patton Boggs lobbying firm paid ABC's Jake Tapper? PBS Newshour's Paul Solmon by Moody's? Their unassailable work would no longer be trustworthy.

"Indeed, imagine that Richard Sandomir, the NYTimes sports reporter who broke this story, was being secretly paid by Fox Sports and that news broke right after his piece on the secret payments to ESPN reporters was published. Oh, the howls we could expect from [ESPN spokesperson] Mr. Krulewitz, whose employer competes with Fox to air games."

ESPN does not have a formal policy regarding its talent endorsing commercial products. The network has long said that it evaluates each of the requests on an individual basis and makes a determination on it. It is in the process of asking on-air staffers to declare outside contracts, likely a result of the company not knowing about Chris Fowler's, Kirk Herbstreit's and Lee Corso's paid gigs for Nike. I have little doubt there are other on-air talent at ESPN and other networks who have been hired by similar companies for similar gigs.

In his piece (which also included Erin Andrews, who has a contract with Reebok to endorse athletic apparel) Johnson asked "what distinctions does the network and other networks draw between "reporters" and "personalities" who appear side-by-side covering the same games, the same events, the teams, all influencing public perceptions? And what would be the rationale for any such differences, if they exist, among its on-air talents?"
That's a good question. Part of problem with the case-by-case endorsement policy is that it sends mixed messages to the viewer (not to mention sets up a star system among employees). ESPN's most-well known entity is Chris Berman, who sells the soap for plenty of places. That's fine, but ESPN also wants us to believe he's a journalist or produces journalism (certainly on its NFL draft coverage).

Same with Andrews. I've previously written and believe it to be true that ESPN executives, especially those on the newsgathering side, hate hearing charges that the network shows favoritism toward athletes. But what should its audience think when one of its well-known talents is hawking Reebok alongside the Manning brothers.

Fowler and Herbstreit are two of the most thoughtful voices on college football. But it's disturbing to know that they were sharing the same employer (Nike) as some of the coaches they comment on. As McBride recently told the Oregonian ("Journalists can review products. But they can't take money from a company to endorse them.")

I asked spokesman Josh Krulewitz if anything had changed in ESPN's endorsement policy since the news broke involving the College GameDay staffers. "We are in process of reviewing all matters relating to endorsements and our commentators," he said.

That sounds like a wise step and something Poynter will likely weigh in on early in its tenure.
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colobuck79;1882672; said:
This is such a blatant conflict of interest that I can't even imagine how E or its reporters can justify it, not even to themselves. This is as corrupt as the Politburo.
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Its actually not when you take them for what they really are-entertainers.
The whole notion of ESPN as a news source (which ESPN of course, promotes) is the problem, not what their perfectly tanned, white toothed face men have to say.

Back in the day no one would have given a shit about Rowdy Roddy Pipers endorsement deals because no one tuned into Pipers Pit for real news. We live in an age now where somehow the collective IQ has dropped to the point where people actually get pissed at the heel for cheap shoting the good guy. It's amazing.
 
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Jaxbuck;1882681; said:
Its actually not when you take them for what they really are-entertainers.
The whole notion of ESPN as a news source (which ESPN of course, promotes) is the problem, not what their perfectly tanned, white toothed face men have to say.

Back in the day no one would have given a shit about Rowdy Roddy Pipers endorsement deals because no one tuned into Pipers Pit for real news. We live in an age now where somehow the collective IQ has dropped to the point where people actually get pissed at the heel for cheap shoting the good guy. It's amazing.
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when espn stops referring to the people in question as "analysts" then maybe this would make sense. however, they aren't called actors, entertainers, or intellectually challenged, collagen injecting, narcissists. they're called CFB analysts, with respect to the gameday crew sans andrews.
 
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tsteele316;1882705; said:
when espn stops referring to the people in question as "analysts" then maybe this would make sense. however, they aren't called actors, entertainers, or intellectually challenged, collagen injecting, narcissists. they're called CFB analysts, with respect to the gameday crew sans andrews.
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That, and when they give up their rights to vote in the various AP polls.
 
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tsteele316;1882705; said:
when espn stops referring to the people in question as "analysts" then maybe this would make sense. however, they aren't called actors, entertainers, or intellectually challenged, collagen injecting, narcissists. they're called CFB analysts, with respect to the gameday crew sans andrews.
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Well we as a society bestow the formal title of "politician" to what by job description should be referred to as "professional liar". Sometimes we have to read bewteen the lines. :wink2:
 
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So the Oregon recruiting issue just broke recently will not be address by these two then huh? What a shame!

Qoute: Fowler and Herbstreit are two of the most thoughtful voices on college football. But it's disturbing to know that they were sharing the same employer (Nike) as some of the coaches they comment on. As McBride recently told the Oregonian ("Journalists can review products. But they can't take money from a company to endorse them.")
 
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