Today is Red Hook flannel Friday and Fritzy Bronco jersey/baseball cap day. What caught you ear or eye today?
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| Fritzy in one of his Bronco outfits |
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| Boy did they get this slogan right |
Rick Neuheisel guested today and we were treated to a two-fer Friday song parody he wrote, sang and played for the show on his guitar. He wrote parodies to Sweet Home Alabama for Alabama and the theme from Animal House for Oregan for national title songs. This was bringing the show into a new area, the guest writing their own content. We were reminded that passion bucket came from Rick as well. No matter what your segment was, or when you did it during the show, no one was going to top Neuheisel today. And Fritzy, what cha doin’ trying to take away his thunder? Major weaksauce.
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| UCLA autographed passion bucket |
During one of the commercial breaks I noticed something I hadn’t before: The making of the promos commercial - Paulie is explaining his bit with the eggs; h tilts his head downward; the darkness of his hair in the shot and the darkened background behind him it looks like he only has hair on the sides and not on the top. Oooof!
In the just can’t get it right department: Dan was letting the audience know that the big announcement of the additional TV partner effective Monday will be made Sunday night on FNIA. Fritzy just had to jump in there and blow another surprise. Fortunately, he didn’t have his mic on, so it wasn’t picked up clearly and the passion bucket made another dollar. McLovin also didn’t have his mic on and will owe the passion bucket again as he tried to give Dan a twenty. If you have something you don’t want everyone to hear, don’t tell Fritzy. Dan has told the story before about how Fritzy had told Dan’s wife Dan had bought an Airstream as a gift for her. Big surprise flushed down the toilet. Thanks Fritzy. What is certain is that there will be an additional home Monday morning bringing availability to 100 million homes. For the press statement when Dan joined Directv he said he "worked best when facing in a south easterly direction." Looking for that type of wit for the Sunday announcement.
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| Make sure you watch Sunday for Dan's big announcement! |
Against the Grain Moved to the touch flat screen next to the golf simulator - On it was a list of the NFL teams listed by division and their standings a’ la McLovin. He was giving his commentary of each team. The appearance of the screen would indicate that this was also posted to the website. Dan got bored fairly quickly with the presentation. He crossed over the camera shot to get a chair, sat down and was drifting off until he was asked to give his Chris Berman imitation of "Da Raiders". Not often does Dan go over to the opposite side of the studio to broadcast and it may be a while before he does again. The pitch offered for ATG was better than the presentation. Maybe if McLovin had completed his prep for the piece and performed a run through the day before instead of the moment of, this would have had better appeal. From what Dan had said, McLovin had been slacking for two and a half hours and had built himself a tall order to fill. It wasn’t a graphics department glitch, there is no graphics department. It wasn’t because you were doing it live. You always do it live. It was lack of good organization and preparation. And what did Dan catch McLovin doing with his pants unzipped behind the golf simulator wall?
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| Picture McLovin used for the ATG piece How...........appealing |
Dan had received many requests from viewers asking for his opinion on what Steven A Smith had said on ESPN’s First Take. "Whatever they (ESPN) decide to do I don’t give a damn." Just because you are on a cable/satellite station doesn’t give you a hall pass to use that terminology. Dan is sensitive to the use of the word. "It’s just not a good word." Quite frankly, the explanation that the ESPN executive gave Paulie was more confusing to me than ESPN omitting that portion of the program on the re-air. ESPN is a star driven network. No matter what your skin color, who you hang with or how you speak with them when you are off air, you shouldn’t use that slang on a national or world wide broadcast. It’s not Dan’s job to police the network he left. That can be someone else’s job and I’m pretty sure it is. Something positive we did learn from Paulie in the box was something he learned when he was working with Jay Glazer. Never give up your source to anyone, even your co-worker or boss. You’ll burn your source. Dan has asked about sources of Paulie’s before and he didn’t give them up and Dan respected Paulie for his ethics. Good guys. Good show.
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| Glazer rockin' positivity |
The Arcade Fire Friday Tribute:Done towards the end of the show on Fridays, went to Directv for making it possible to join forces with another network on Monday. When Dan joined Directv he wanted to make sure that the show had distribution and Directv lived up to their word. They are truly a force to be wreckoned with. A big thank you from all of us in the audience as well for bringing it to a new level. Here come the music, everybody sing along! BaHaHaHa!
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| Only on Directv |
For a little levity:At the end of the show we listened to the replay of the Gary Miller soccer breakdown in 3, 2, 1. Let’s make that mental breakdown in 3, 2, 1. Dan dies of laughter each time it’s played. As he says, that’s still damn funny. Front row was getting into it, the back row were stiff as boards just clicking away on their computers. Really, are they 100% into the show today?
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| Gary Miller ESPN |
Additional show nugget: From the Just Go With It Premier: Brooklyn Decker had complained that there was an unnamed Danette that had put their hands too low when they hugged her. Until today we all figured it was Fritzy. In actuality it was Seton. With the height difference between him and her, his hands just fell a wee bit too low for her comfort. She’s really become touchy since Dan got her that acting gig that launched that portion of her career.
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| Sandler and Decker in Just Go With It |
Coming to you from the NYC man cave on Monday: Tony Dungy, Eric Burns and Pat Forte
From The Box Score Show: The topic of the player that had beer written in his contract came up. Casey had asked, what would you have written into your contract? McLovin: a true personal friendship with Dan. Fritzy: Bronco season tickets, hugs and sausages in the blanket. Paulie: A personal chef. Seton: Craft services. Talk of what would happen if Dan left in ten years. Paulie would probably have a spin off, Seton would probably be fired before then, Fritzy would stay with Dan to the end. There wasn’t a response from McLovin.
Boss’ Thoughts:These were actually the boss’ bathroom thoughts where he thought that mock headlines were now being mocked because of all the additions to the program from the audience and front row. But wasn’t Dan offering his thoughts from the bathroom also mocking the mock headlines?
Side note: Dan’s visit on Jimmy Fallon will be separately posted.
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| Dan with Jimmy Fallon 10/26/12 |
So, what did you learn today?
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