10/3/09: The Iowa Hawkeyes crush SEC powerhouse Arkansas State, 56-0. Watch the highlights, and be awed by the devastation!
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GAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
FEEL THE WRATH OF THE MIGHTY HAWKEYES!!
4:43 is INCREDIBLE!
99 yard touchdown run by All-America Iowa tailback Herschel Sanders; charging through sixteen linebackers too! I know Arkansas State wasn’t a national title level team as in years past, but that’s still incredible!
Solid performance by Hawk QB Ricky Unitas too. Nothing fancy, but he got the job done.
There is fire at the travel agency.
But seriously
Pam Ward….shudder.
There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 22, 2010 2:22 PM CDT up reply actions
I would listen to Pam Ward all day
before I’d stomach a Mike Patrick-called game (“Did you see THAT!?!?!?!”) or any FOX Sports telecast.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 22, 2010 2:24 PM CDT up reply actions
She's horrible.
But it has more to do with her seemingly calling every single embarrasing Penn State loss in 2003 and 2004. Oh, bad memories.
There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 22, 2010 2:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Is it just me
or did she finally cross the line into post-op tranny last season? She looked rough.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 22, 2010 2:33 PM CDT up reply actions
I thought she was no longer allowed in front of the camera.
Only the voice at this point. At the beginning of the halfs they represent her with something animatronic, made out of canvas sail and rope.
by HawkeyeRecon on Jul 22, 2010 2:35 PM CDT up reply actions
I just saw part of "The Crying Game"
last evening, and I’m pretty sure Pam Ward was in it.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 22, 2010 2:38 PM CDT up reply actions
At least she says "Trey Stross" correctly.
Which puts her in the top 75th percentile of our announcers, most of whom struggled to avoid “Troy” “Strauss” or “Number 86.”
"If you want to become a man--come to Iowa" All American IOWA LB PAT ANGERER, whose best friend is a dog.
by The Director on Jul 23, 2010 1:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Don't forget Todd's Taste of the Town!
Wherein our intrepid reporter visits some local eatery and orders some oversized dish and declares it the best thing he’s ever eaten, only to have it supplanted the following week.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
It's not Blackledge's fault that a) His name is "Todd" and b) ESPN producers are silly.
There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 22, 2010 7:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Whats wrong Rambler?
You afraid his knowledge of high fat eateries is somehow going to get linked to his schooling at Penn State?
Who's leg do I have to hump to get a drink around here?-Brian
Of course not.
He has inspired me. If I go to a game in Madison, I’m going to stop and have some fried cheese.
There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 23, 2010 8:02 AM CDT up reply actions
Beat. Down.
That’s what I wish I could say about that game. However, rewatching those highlights just proves the point that I’ve made many times; the game was ugly and uninspiring, but Arkansas State never really threatened to win. It wasn’t so much Iowa “escaping” as them taking the day off.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
RUKIDDINGME?
Arkansas State had wide receiver Plaxico Rice, Iowa totally shut him down along with their tight end Keith Jackson (As in BOTH Keith Jacksons combined). That’s not taking the day off, Kyle.
There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 22, 2010 2:24 PM CDT up reply actions
By the end of the game,
I prayed I would not have to see another jump pass for a touchdown again.
Who's leg do I have to hump to get a drink around here?-Brian
I have a friend...
who is an Iowa grad, and loves to be sarcastic and critical. I took him to that game last year (I’m pretty sure it was the only one he attended live). Needless to say, that was a 1 hour and twenty minute drive back to Waterloo that was very critical of the Hawkeyes.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
I was very disappointed and dejected after that game
by HawkeyeRecon on Jul 22, 2010 3:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Prater missed some early games.
The inexperience of his back-ups was evident against UNI and Arkansas State. So was the inconsistency of the quarterback.
"In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic!" - Homer Simpson
by EastLosRandy on Jul 22, 2010 3:51 PM CDT up reply actions
I feel kind of sorry for the Red Wolves.
Playing Iowa that tough in football… but still not winning the Bubba’s Cup.
I'm sick, but I'm pretty...
I didn't notice before
But Bulaga had some responsibility on that Pick 6. He got beat to the outside on a stunt, Stanzi got pressured and flushed to the right, and made that awful throw.
This was Bulaga’s first game back after a 3 week absence, and he was slow this week, plus the next two weeks against Brandon Graham and O’Brien Schofield.
He was pretty damn good in the games after that, though.
http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2008/08/pam-ward-chronicles-week-one.html
“Northwestern players…looking over to the sidelines…they want to go for it.”- Pam Ward,
It is 3rd and 9
Keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either, Dude.
by AcrimoniousAngerererer on Jul 22, 2010 4:32 PM CDT reply actions
I have no doubt
that the coaching staff has worked up a little vignette of this and the UNI game for showing during the dog days of training camp, when everybody is tired, cranky, and wants a day off.
A fella steps out for a two pound burrito and all hell breaks loose.
Aside from dressing like someone in an SNL skit,
and being obviously butch, what is the problem with Ms. Ward? Seems to me she gets the names and numbers right. This is television we’re talking about. What is she not doing? I’ve never understood the hate.
Mr. Boh Knows ...
Yeah, I really don't think she's all THAT bad, either.
I mean, certainly not significantly worse than most of the rest of the play-by-play troglodytes out there. There really are very few truly outstanding people doing that job, and she’s not worse than middle-of-the-pack.
"Kittens give Morbo gas."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 22, 2010 10:52 PM CDT up reply actions
She's not terrible
Probably run-of-the-mill. But being paired with Ray Bentley really brings down the quality.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Well yeah, but it's not her fault he has the apparent intellect and on-air personality of a manhole cover.
"Kittens give Morbo gas."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 22, 2010 11:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah...
…blame the people who hired her!
No, no, if I had a job in broadcast journalism, and I was that bad, I’d attempt to get better.
Pam Ward can eat her own dick.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 23, 2010 12:23 PM CDT up reply actions
I personally prefer guys announcing sports with male players
and women announcing sports with female players. especially former participants of the sport doing the announcing.
by HawkeyeRecon on Jul 23, 2010 11:24 AM CDT up reply actions
She's too much like Joe Buck for me.
And again, she was there for so many awful losses. She may have been there for 6-4, but I’ve managed to forget everything about that game aside from “6-4”.
There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 23, 2010 8:05 AM CDT up reply actions
Again, I think
Fred Pam Ward must be taken contextually. Is she Musburger (hey, I still like the guy)? No. But there are so many hacks in the profession that her work really must be held up alongside the rest. ESPN employs no fewer than four other play-by-play announcers that I have far less tolerance for. Anyone who watched the Orange Bowl can attest to the generally low quality of FOX announcers not assigned to the NFL and Verne Lundquist is only fine when he’s not off on PGA tangents while a play is unfolding. Pam Ward is a lot like the Iowa defense; steady, vanilla and really manly.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 23, 2010 9:29 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
She's just easy to remember
so everybody takes out their frustration with average announcers on her.
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. - Werner Herzog
Yep.
Were she a man, no one would likely take much issue at all (much less speculatively comment on her sexual orientation).
"Kittens give Morbo gas."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 23, 2010 9:38 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yes, Pam Ward is way more competent than several others.
On the other hand, if you ever read awfulannouncing.com, then you know they have (had?) an award named after her for the worst announcing gaffes of each week.
But, I guess we probably shouldn’t take everything on the internets as gospel.
/breitbart’d
(And yes, most of the crap she takes is about the pitch of her voice. I’m guessing that in real life, she is probably a nice lady.)
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 23, 2010 9:54 AM CDT up reply actions
Yes, it's def the pitch
And even more so tone and perhaps even the cadence of how she says things. It’s just not quite right, and therefore like nails on a chalkboard to me.
And I fully admit this is totally sexist, but if she sounded more like a woman, I probably wouldn’t complain as much. It’s like she tries to sound more manly because she thinks that’s what people want to hear (a man announcing). There are other women announcers and side line reporters that don’t get caught up in that. Maybe it’s a generational thing? It reminds me of the women from the 80s (and by extension those same women now) that dressed how they thought a man would dress if he were woman (those horrendous big blazers with shoulder pads) instead of dressing like a woman in order to ‘fit in’ with the good ol boys corporate culture.
by HawkgirlSTL on Jul 23, 2010 10:29 AM CDT up reply actions
It's the voice that stands out to me...
…I know far more about football than any of the announcers, so I just want to tune them out. Pammy insists on muscling her way into my consciousness, and then just lingers there saying stupid things that either have nothing to do with what’s on the field, or saying names wrong, etc.
She just needs to go away. Maybe they could make her the announcer for the postgame (“The Smyth* Family is making it’s way through parking lot C where they left their minivan parked in tailgate mode…”)
*Smyth, actually pronounced Smith
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 23, 2010 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions
its an issue of inflection and emphasis for me
my brain tells me she’s doing it wrong, i tend to listen to how people say things as opposed to what they’re actually saying.
Keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either, Dude.
by AcrimoniousAngerererer on Jul 23, 2010 8:51 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, I agree.
Penn State had to stage a comeback touchdown drive to beat Northwestern in 2005 and Pam Ward could only sound excited by just adding a higher inflection. Really, it’s nothing personal but I do find her voice sometimes painful to hear.
There is fire at the travel agency.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 23, 2010 10:06 AM CDT up reply actions
Is it just me?
Or does it seem as if she just does’nt want to do the game she is at? It sounds as if she want’s to be anywhere but where she is at. Kind of a monotone, ho-hum inflection in her voice that seams to say, man I should be in Texas for that game as opposed to Iowa City for this game.
Who's leg do I have to hump to get a drink around here?-Brian
In fairness...
if you were stuck doing the second or third biggest Big Ten game on ESPN on Saturday at 11:00 AM every week (which means you have to be up and moving at o-dark-thirty on Saturday morning in places like West Lafayette), then you would rather be someplace else also.
Iowa City is the lone exception to this corollary, of course.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 23, 2010 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions
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