Nebraska football play-by-play radio host Jim Rose and color man Adrian Fiala enjoyed a healthy audience for Saturday's broadcast, thanks to the absence of television coverage for the Huskers' 56-7 win over Nicholls State.Last year, seven of Nebraska's 12 regular season games were televised. In 2004, seven of 11 games were not televised and the count was 7 of 13 games televised in 2003.
The Pinnacle Sports Network, which owns the exclusive broadcast rights to Nebraska football games, can be heard on 35 radio stations in Nebraska and 18 outside the state.
Rose and Fiala, perhaps like the Huskers, did not pull out all the stops on Saturday. Rose shied away from some of his more well-known references to 'dropping the chalupa" or "giving it an atomic wack." But he did toss in one reference to tennis on the weekend of the finals of the US Open tennis tournament, saying "the Huskers lead 28-love at halftime."
Like the opening game of the season last week, the broadcast had its share of technical troubles. A microphone was left switched on during the final pre-game break, allowing listeners to hear Rose preview the programming lineup coming out of the commercial.
"When we come back, we'll go to Matt (Davison) on the field for the keys to the game," Rose said as a commercial played. "We'll have one more break after this one."
In another commercial break, the Michigan fight song could be heard playing for about 30 seconds.
But one technical gaffe was quickly averted in the second quarter when Rose quickly switched out dying battery on his microphone and didn't miss a beat on the play-by-play call of the game.
3 comments:
Adrian is good but who are you kidding????? But Rose is terrible. He is the bottom of the Big XII and is near Buffalo & Bowling Green in the entire ACC. There are a ton of local guys so much better..... PAVELKA, KUGLER PUTENNEY . . . . .
Who thinks Jim Rose is good at what he supposedly 'does'? Apparently, only Steve Peterson. When we're at NU football games, we always laugh at his mistakes and thank the Lord that we are fortunate enough to be at the game, instead of having to 'see' it through his glasses. He constantly makes mistakes. I have to believe they could find someone who doesn't insult normal intelligence.
I was happy for Kevin Kugler when I heard his voice on the Westwood broadcast of the Texas/Ohio St. game.
That picture makes Rosie look about 16. When was that thing taken?
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