So Temple and Villanova held their football media days yesterday. I wasn't at either because, as you might have noticed, I shot two videos for Philly.com yesterday that had nothing whatsoever to do with college sports. But as you've probably figured out by now, that stuff pays the bills and this stuff doesn't quite.
Anyway, the point is that college football season starts eight days from now, even though it's still August and temperatures are going to be in the 90's this weekend. I've been thinking for a while about how to cover the local college football scene, and I thought I'd share my plan for this season with you and the dust and the tumbleweeds.
Basically, there isn't going to be much. I'll do a few Temple games and maybe a Penn and a Villanova game here and there, but I'm not really sure what more than that there will be.
More importantly, I don't have the time or resources to get out to State College for Penn State. I'll cover the Nittany Lions when they come here to play the Owls, and I'll write about what I see on TV, but I'm not sure it'll go beyond that.
Here's the real thing with me and college football, though. I'm probably as much of a fan as anything else. I like watching the big-time games between the big-time schools because they are unmatched as pure spectacles on the American sports landscape.
I love the huge crowds, the marching bands, the theatrics of teams taking the field, and Brent Musburger's booming "You are looking live..." at the top of a telecast. I don't have any real affiliations to the big-time teams, so I just hope for good games and big plays.
The one thing I'd like to do on here related to that is run a poll each week that I'm temporarily calling Spectacle of the Week. Ideally, I'd combine your nominations and a few picks of my own on Monday and Tuesday, then launch a poll on Wednesday and ask you all to pick a winner. I'd then offer a few extra thoughts on that game's high points.
Does that make sense? Are there other things you'd like to see, aside from me generally shutting my mouth?
(Is anyone still reading this thing?)
Let me know.
Comments (3)
Dont understand your cryptic comment about "committments" around the Penn Villanova game...
You claim "I figure it's better that I get that out there now instead of having people ask me about it later on"
But I have no idea what it is!
Pls clarify
Posted by Fred Farkle | August 25, 2007 3:04 PM
Posted on August 25, 2007 15:04
Fair criticism. I amended the post. It's just not something that I particularly wanted to get into, but the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur is that day so I won't be working. It's a safe bet that I won't be the only one, either, though it's certainly not as big a deal as Christmas and Easter.
It's not really relevant to the blog, though, so I took it out. I should have phrased it differently from the start. And it's probably more appropriate to deal with it down here, because the blog should be about the game, not about me.
But thanks for reading -- I'm never really sure whether people are paying attention in the off-season.
Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald | August 25, 2007 11:06 PM
Posted on August 25, 2007 23:06
Jonathon:
Was not trying to criticize, just looking for an explanation.
Which you provided.
Thanks.
Posted by Fred Farkle | August 26, 2007 7:13 AM
Posted on August 26, 2007 07:13