{"id":790,"date":"2006-11-06T08:44:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T08:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/06\/jackass-wide-receiver-night-in\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T08:44:48","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T08:44:48","slug":"jackass-wide-receiver-night-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/06\/jackass-wide-receiver-night-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackass Wide Receiver Night in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the Cowboys-Redskins game yesterday<\/a> apparently had a wild finish. There were three field goal attempts in the final 31 seconds, one of them blocked and partially returned, with a penalty setting up the game-winning attempt with no time on the clock. Wild stuff, sure to be good highlight fodder, right?<\/p>\n

So, I made a point to stay around for halftime in the Pats-Colts game, when the “Football Night in America” crowd on NBC talks about interesting games from earlier in the day. And sure enough, we get highlights from this game: we got to see Terrell Owens catching a touchdown pass, and getting flagged for using the ball as a celebration prop. We got to see Bill Parcells reprimanding Owens, and Owens throwing a tantrum. And we got to see Owens drop a sure touchdown pass, followed by some post-game comments from Owens.<\/p>\n

Field goals? What field goals?<\/p>\n

The Ravens-Bengals game got the same treatment, with Chad Johnson as the central figure.<\/p>\n

I know it’s only halfway through the season, but NBC’s handling of the highlights really sucks. The last few years of ESPN’s highlights show weren’t as good as back in the mid-90’s, but at least they were about football<\/strong>, not the off-field antics of overpaid jackasses. Give the highlight show back to Berman and Jackson (who still do highlights, on an irregular schedule as part of the late SportsCenter, which means I’ll have to try to catch them in the morning reruns…)<\/p>\n

And meanwhile, Marvin Harrison caught eight passes for 145 yards and two touchdowns against the Patriots. In a just world, he would get twice the coverage, and twice the money of Johnson and Owens combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, the Cowboys-Redskins game yesterday apparently had a wild finish. There were three field goal attempts in the final 31 seconds, one of them blocked and partially returned, with a penalty setting up the game-winning attempt with no time on the clock. Wild stuff, sure to be good highlight fodder, right? So, I made a… Continue reading Jackass Wide Receiver Night in America<\/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-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}