Comments on: 25 Years Ago: Mike Tomczak

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:21:55 +0000

Go back to the second TD, the one that put us up 14-7. After Clarett scored, they did a crowd shot and focused on a young lady wearing a shirt that said “F*** Michigan”. As soon as the cameraman realized what the shirt said, he jerked the camera over to an innocuous crowd view. I still think that’s hilarious, especially since the girl wearing the shirt was an old co-worker of mine. Jason might also remember her (maybe).

By: jfunk

jfunk — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:29:04 +0000

Not any worse than trying to watch the Alamo Bowl and having to listen to Mike Tirico bring up Mo C. every 1.6 minutes. Aside from having to listen to him prattle on about that I’d say that’s my favorite (recent) bowl game to watch.

By: iball

iball — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:49:39 +0000

Actually Herbie and Musberger are opposites. I remember a time when every Buckeye fan hated Musberger, seemed that every time a team took a 3-0 lead in the first quarter, Musberger would follow it up with “… and we’ve got an upset brewing in Columbus.” Almost like he wanted to see the Bucks go down. Eventually after much hate mail he seemed to change his atitude towards OSU a bit, now I kind of like the old fart.\

You’re right on Herbie though, after the “debacle in the desert” he may have taken the most flak of all-time for an analyst from any certain team. Now its almost as if I expect him to take out a picture of Tebow or Taylor Mays and start french kissing it on national television.

By: BuckeyeChief

BuckeyeChief — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:23:08 +0000

Still makes the DVD tough to watch.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:49:47 +0000

Definitely. What about him wailing “bad call! bad call!” before the replay was even played on the (still incredibly obvious) PI?

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:01:44 +0000

I agree. His old mate Winslow’s son was playing for “The U”, and so he was obviously not going to be objective. In general, I thought Fouts was lousy in the booth for college games. Very surprising though, because I always thought he was one of the best doing NFL games.

By: BuckeyeChief

BuckeyeChief — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:56:50 +0000

Matt, I think Dan Fouts in the Miami game was the worst case of homerism ever.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:06:08 +0000

Actually, I’d say it goes a long way in explaining why Oklahoma gets the respect we supposedly don’t.

By: BuckeyeChief

BuckeyeChief — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:26:16 +0000

Don’t ask.

By: RunTellMatt

RunTellMatt — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:18:10 +0000

All I ask for is for announcers to leave their biases out of the booth. There’s nothing more infuriating than listening to some talking head drone on and on about how great a team or conference is. Or even worse, those announcers who abuse the phrase, “..the greatest (play, player, hit, etc.) I’ve ever seen.”

I like Herbstreit and all, that handsome devil, but he seems to overcompensate for the fact he was a Buckeye by going too far the other way on issues as to not look biased. I use to think it was all part of a master plan, but after the last few seasons I’m not so sure.

If only we could have Brent Musburger for every game.