Omaha World-Herald photographer Matt Miller produced a time lapse movie of Memorial Stadium during Friday's Nebraska-Colorado football game.You can view the movie here (requires QuickTime).
If Nebraska loses the Big 12 title game Saturday, the Huskers will likely end up in the Cotton Bowl. Play-by-play legend Pat Summerall announced over the weekend that he will return to the broadcast booth to call that Jan. 1 game for FOX Sports. It will be the 78-year-old's first call of a college football game since undergoing liver transplant surgery in April 2004.
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Sean, fyi Pat Summerall filled in for Mike Patrick last fall on ESPN's Sunday Night Football while Mike was recovering from bypass surgery.
And he's done a game or two on the Fox NFL package this fall to "tune" up for the Cotton Bowl. He'll likely do at least one NFL game in December as well.
I appreciate the corrections. The information I received was from a FOX Sports press release.
45 seconds or less? Our local news stations could take a lesson from the Omaha World Herald. Or am I the only who one that's noticed they spend a good 20 minutes recapping a game on the local news? They certainly know how to milk something dry.
Maybe we'll get lucky and the Huskers will lose the next couple games. That tends to cut the coverage in half.
Sean,
I disagree with your projection. If Nebraska loses the Big 12 Champ, Texas will be selected to play in the Cotton Bowl. Nebraska will probably be Holiday Bowl bound and play Cal. That's a concern because Cal can throw the ball.
It may not have been 20 minutes. I did not actually time it. It certainly seemed like it went on for quite a long time. Either way, do you really think that the day's local and national news needs to wait until after we hand out a game ball and listen to a team's press conferences? And it was against a team that wasn't even ranked. God help us if they win against Oklahoma.
And I wasn't comparing the amount of coverage, I was comparing the World Herald's simple 45 second video recap to the several minutes you get from your average news station. The World Herald may very well milk it just as much, but the bulk of it ends up on the sports page where it belongs. Now compare that to the 10 minutes at the beginning of the local newscast.
I can't argue with you there. Nebraska beat a 2-9 team by 23 points. By Golly thats bound to be Headline Breaking News. I read President Bush rushed back from Camp David after that shocker.
And no, I'm not in the business. It would seem my priorities are far too screwed up to make it in the Omaha market. We can't wait until Sunday morning newspaper to hit our porch for the play-by-play. We can't even wait 15 minutes into a newscast for the play-by-play. As long as there are only about a dozen of us who couldn't care less about Husker football, we will be forever in a market where a Tornado Warning warrants the same amount as screen space as a football game.
Today, Steve Petersen was pushing for Holiday bowl or the Gator bowl if they don't win this weekend.
The Holiday Bowl picks before the Gator Bowl. I can't imagine the Holiday Bowl passing on Nebraska to choose Texas A&M. If the Huskers lose, they're going to the Holiday Bowl, end of story.
From the sounds of it, Nebraska is going to the Cotton Bowl.
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