RIP: Jefferson Pilot telecasts

Well, not really, since they're just changing the sponsor name. But for every Southerner who has ever cursed "tha Jay Pee game" this is a fitting eulogy.

http://www.sportsline.com/spin/story/9589959

 

Nooooooooo! They can't change the name! It won't be the same, dammit.

 

That was an awesome column. JP existed so that Vanderbilt fans would not feel left out. Tho JP often got Vandy-Bama or Vandy-Florida, and those were often good games.

 

Don't forget, JP had Kentucky-LSU a few years ago -- a game Turner South has shown about 40 times in the last six weeks. Dave Neal's call of the hail Mary touchdown included the fact that LSU scored, but left out all other information.

Still, Lincoln Financial sounds a little too dignified.

 

:'( :'( :'( :'(

 

I like the cutline that said "Without Jefferson Pilot, watching Kentucky football games will be eerily different."

Um...no one watches Kentucky football.

 

Was just going to nominate that as the "Greatest JP Game Ever."

Of course the term "Greatest JP Game Ever" is a lot like "Greatest NIT Team Ever."

 

I will stop and watch it every time it's on, just to see the Kentucky fans slowly realize that they lost. I'm not anti-Kentucky, I just love seeing their reactions. Would have been a hell of a day to be a photographer.

 

A wise man I once worked with said it best: You can't spell suck without UK.

 

I don't know that I've ever read a more accurate sentence. God that used to drive me crazy. What was even better though was when they when to a highlight from another game and the highlight was three quarters old.

 

Thanks for checking in, Steve Superior.

 

What a great game. I love how JP showed the replay of the Gatorade bath, then began with the most cliche question in all of buzzer-beating sports history: "I guess that's why a game is (so-so-) minutes long, huh?"  . Fucking JP. What an empire.