{"id":1934,"date":"2007-11-06T21:50:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T21:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/06\/saturday-football-weirdness\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T21:50:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T21:50:44","slug":"saturday-football-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/06\/saturday-football-weirdness\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Football Weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boggling discovery of the week: <a href=\"http:\/\/williams.prestosports.com\/sports\/fball\/2007-08\/news\/1106_ESPN_College_GameDay\">ESPN will be broadcasting from my alma mater<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Williams College will play host to archrival Amherst College in football at noon in the 122nd meeting of &#8220;The Biggest Little Game in America&#8221; on Saturday, November 10th.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s College GameDay Built By The Home Depot with host Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard will make its first appearance at a Division III game when they kickoff their show at 10:00 ET live from Weston Field.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, that&#8217;s just freaky.<\/p>\n<p>I should note, though, that this is not the first time that ESPN has visited the Purple Valley&#8211; back in the mid-90&#8217;s (1995? 1997?), a Williams-amherst game was broadcast on ESPN2. It was a horrible, rainy day, the field was a mess, and the game ended in a 0-0 tie.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope this turns out better for everyone involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boggling discovery of the week: ESPN will be broadcasting from my alma mater: Williams College will play host to archrival Amherst College in football at noon in the 122nd meeting of &#8220;The Biggest Little Game in America&#8221; on Saturday, November 10th. ESPN&#8217;s College GameDay Built By The Home Depot with host Chris Fowler, Lee Corso,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/06\/saturday-football-weirdness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday Football Weirdness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}