RIP: Jefferson Pilot telecasts

[dixiehack]

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

 

[KYSportsWriter]

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

 

[dooley_womack1]

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.

 

[John]

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.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

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.

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

 

[imjustagirl2]

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

Um...no one watches Kentucky football.

 

[Freelance Hack]

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.

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."

 

[John]

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.

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.

 

[joe]

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

 

[dog428]

JP's sports score motto might as well have been, "There's never a finished game we can't give you a first quarter score for."

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.

 

[buckweaver]

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

Thanks for checking in, Steve Superior.

 

[Leo Mazzone]

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?"  . ****ing JP. What an empire.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

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

lol.

i watched the game a few days ago and the fans' reactions are priceless. but i so hate that game because kentucky had it won and seemingly gave up on that last play.

and, **** rich brooks. i hope this is his last season in lexington.

 

[JayFarrar]

Good stuff ...
While working on the desk, I cheered the JP game. It meant an easy Saturday.
While writing SEC, I cursed the JP game. It meant an early Saturday.
The worst though was late in the season and the TV schedule wasn't set in stone. It would cause havoc on the travel schedules, but I'd rather do a JP game than the 8:45 ESPN2 kickoff.
God those suck.
But I guess the real question is, besides sportswriters, who actually listened to the Daves? I mean all the fans I know would listen to the game on the radio with the TV on mute.
And much like this guy, I developed an odd fascination with JP games. Kind of like watching a guy get kicked inthe nuts, you know it hurt, but you couldn't look away. And as a fan of football, more often than not, the game was usually pretty good.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

The name is changing, but are Dave, Dave and Dave still going to be doing the games?

 

[dixiehack]

JP's sports score motto might as well have been, "There's never a finished game we can't give you a first quarter score for."

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.

What made it even better of course is that they only have maybe 10% of the day's Division I-A schedule, maximum, to keep up with because they start so damn early.

The Daves will be back. And listening to the radio feed is kind of hard if (1) you live out of state and (2) the Japanamation-style 10-second lag between the radio and the gerbil in the truck JP feed makes you seasick.

 

[wickedwritah]

JP used to handle a bunch of the big Eastern schools' games before the creation of the Big East. The production was hideous.

I've heard JP actually has some big-time money-making radio stations.

 

[dog428]

JP's sports score motto might as well have been, "There's never a finished game we can't give you a first quarter score for."

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.

What made it even better of course is that they only have maybe 10% of the day's Division I-A schedule, maximum, to keep up with because they start so damn early.

Know what was even worse? In addition to the fact that they only had about 10% of the day's schedule to keep up with, THEY DIDN'T EVEN ATTEMPT TO FOLLOW ABOUT HALF OF THEM.

The scores, which were always brought to you in a 1989-era, break-in-the-action (or in JP's case, during-the-action) style, with each score flashed up on the screen individually and the scores repeated by one of the Daves. They covered FIVE -- at best. And one of the five was always a "big" one that was an hour away from start time but JP felt the need to plop it up there with 0s out beside each team.

I really hope the new owners don't try to monkey around with the production.

 

[FuerteJ]

It will always be the JP game. LF. Pshah. I've actually got to make sure I don't write JP in one of my stories, though there's actually no reason to write it save for the game preview.

 

[dixiehack]

JP's sports score motto might as well have been, "There's never a finished game we can't give you a first quarter score for."

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.

What made it even better of course is that they only have maybe 10% of the day's Division I-A schedule, maximum, to keep up with because they start so damn early.

Know what was even worse? In addition to the fact that they only had about 10% of the day's schedule to keep up with, THEY DIDN'T EVEN ATTEMPT TO FOLLOW ABOUT HALF OF THEM.

The scores, which were always brought to you in a 1989-era, break-in-the-action (or in JP's case, during-the-action) style, with each score flashed up on the screen individually and the scores repeated by one of the Daves. They covered FIVE -- at best. And one of the five was always a "big" one that was an hour away from start time but JP felt the need to plop it up there with 0s out beside each team.

I really hope the new owners don't try to monkey around with the production.

And their ACC game usually wasn't one of the five. If it was, it got the same two-hour embargo treatment as everything else (as did the late-season split telecast opposite game, usually South Carolina vs. Clemson in a season where they couldn't combine for a pair of testicles between them.)