UNA Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 i emailed espn and supriseingly got a quick response. it took them 5 horus on a saturday they said they were gonna try and have the officials at alabama postpo e the game for a little bit so we wont miss that much of it My bro is the TV official and he just called me and said that they are going to try and wait a few minutes. Kickoff is not until 3:08 anyway. Quote
Smoggy Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 ESPN just announced that GF and michigan area will be leaving the bball game early brought right to the fb game. Quote
choyt3 Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 Just announced that ESPN will join the game in time for kick-off in North Dakota and Allendale, Mich., areas, with updates of the basketball game. Doesn't do me a lot of good in Minnesota, but Sioux fans watching in ND should be pleased. Quote
sioux fan in phoenix Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 ESPN guy said they would try to go to the game a little quicker for those living in ND. Quote
sprig Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 ESPN just announced that GF and michigan area will be leaving the bball game early brought right to the fb game. Bet you're happy to be in Cali Quote
Smoggy Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 Bet you're happy to be in Cali Yeah I'm really thrilled. Quote
sioux fan in phoenix Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 This bb game is also sort of close at the moment which means there'll be more timeouts. Quote
sioux fan in phoenix Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 Would someone let us out-of-staters know exactly what time the game starts so we can see how much of it we'll miss? Quote
TheSiouxFan Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 See if you can get it on the online radio. Quote
brianvf Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 I thought that ESPN said that they were going to show us the FB game?? WTF!?!? Hurray for the Kansas and Oregon BB game. Gotta love it. Quote
Smoggy Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 The bball game is out of hand now. Kansas is up by 18, I think they can leave that game. Quote
sioux fan in phoenix Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 At least we'll see most of the game. I guess the Sioux are down 0-3 now. Quote
Smoggy Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 My dad just told me that ESPN didn't cut away in GF. Funny, but they are taking a TV timeout at the game. IT'S NOT ON TV!!!!! Quote
sioux fan in phoenix Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 Man, it seems like there have been a 1,000 fouls in the last 2 mins. of this bb game. Quote
UNA Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 My dad just told me that ESPN didn't cut away in GF. Funny, but they are taking a TV timeout at the game. IT'S NOT ON TV!!!!! That means they are planning to go right to it after the timeout. It may be a long one for the players. Quote
sioux fan in phoenix Posted December 13, 2003 Posted December 13, 2003 Dammit, Sioux missed 46 yard f/g attempt. Quote
cypress Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 Yeah, ESPN screwed the fans over. For people who lived in Allendale, the title game was cut into right at 4, but for those of us who live in the Grand Rapids area they stuck with the stupid basketball game until the end. Anyway, heres a story about it. I think ESPN owes the people of North Dakota and West Michigan free magazine supscriptions or something. http://www.mlive.com/lakers/grpress/index....00801153160.xml Quote
sprig Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 Yeah, ESPN screwed the fans over. For people who lived in Allendale, the title game was cut into right at 4, but for those of us who live in the Grand Rapids area they stuck with the stupid basketball game until the end. Anyway, heres a story about it. I think ESPN owes the people of North Dakota and West Michigan free magazine supscriptions or something. http://www.mlive.com/lakers/grpress/index....00801153160.xml That article makes it sound like the switch in ND and western Mich. didn't take place. It did come on for the kickoff in western ND, which is nowhere near GF? Quote
PCM Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 It was strange. I was watching the basketball game and about 3 p.m. they said that viewers in the Allendale and Grand Forks areas should stand by while they switched to the kickoff for the Division II championship game. There was a long pause and nothing happened. The basketball game stayed on. Quote
UND92,96 Posted December 14, 2003 Author Posted December 14, 2003 That article makes it sound like the switch in ND and western Mich. didn't take place. It did come on for the kickoff in western ND, which is nowhere near GF? ESPN switched to the football game in western ND? Now I'm even more upset that those of us in GF didn't get to see most of the first quarter. Quote
Hansel Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 ESPN switched to the football game in western ND? Now I'm even more upset that those of us in GF didn't get to see most of the first quarter. We saw the whole thing in Fargo too. Quote
redwing77 Posted December 14, 2003 Posted December 14, 2003 Why is anyone surprised at all about what happened on ESPN? Don't you get it? They don't care! I couldn't believe they picked up coverage of the game at all! They did it in 2001. Don't know if they did it last year. They did it this year. And they'll do it next year. They only picked up coverage because it was a national championship game. They wanted to have the corner on that market since they couldn't get the Super Bowl (doesn't ABC have the Super Bowl, Fox has the World Series?) If they actually cared, there would not be any of this and the shock and disappointment would be truly warranted. I say feel good you got any of the game to watch on ESPN. Those losers are typical idiots. Quote
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