Jefferson Pilot

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RDU VOL#14 said:
“Welcome to Starkville, Mississippi, for this 11am kickoff between the visiting Vanderbilt Commodores and the hometown Mississippi State Bulldogs. I’m Dave and with me in the booth as always is Dave, and who could forget about our sideline reporter Dave?”
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The 3 Daves what great memories...a much simpler time. The SEC was the SEC fewer damn interlopers.
 
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I remember laughing at Dave Archer because sometimes he's start a thought about a play and you could tell the moment he didn't know where he was going with the thought nor how to end it.
 
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Jackcrevol said:
what did the 2000's give us, other than 16:9 aspect ratio? all tv sucked. years of wandering in the wilderness in all sports.
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More televised Vol games. Back in the day just to see 2 televised Vol games was a treat, to have 3 was truly special.
 
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I wonder if any of us will look back in 20 years and say, "Yes, I remember the good ole days when ESPN carried 26 college games a week - some on Thursday, some on Friday, some on Saturday....and occasionally on Sunday and Monday. You could never get enough of football. They fed it to us like we were fatted calves".

I doubt it.
 
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volsfan125 said:
Before Jefferson Pilot, they was Raycom Sports and before that the time slot was TBS's Super Football Saturday from the mid 80's to early 90's.
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Dayum, when did we get old...HAHAHAA

Miss the JP, Paycom, and TBS broadcasts for sure, but then again I miss a time when college football was ONLY played on a Saturday.
Friday was for the high schoolers (good football fans were in attendance at their local game rather than watching at home), Sunday was for the NFL, but Saturday was for the religious and faithful college fans.
 
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DarkVolder said:
The three Dave’s who could forget
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Seems one was named maybe Dave Neal?? I think his son (can't remember his first name) does some games now for ESPN+ and prob some regular ESPN broadcast. I don't generally know who's broadcasting cause I usually have it muted but when I was a kid and only one or two games A WEEK were on involving any sport.... we knew all about the broadcast etc. Now....they are so ubiquitous it seems irrelevant.
 
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tennrich1 said:
Seems one was named maybe Dave Neal?? I think his son (can't remember his first name) does some games now for ESPN+ and prob some regular ESPN broadcast. I don't generally know who's broadcasting cause I usually have it muted but when I was a kid and only one or two games A WEEK were on involving any sport.... we knew all about the broadcast etc. Now....they are so ubiquitous it seems irrelevant.
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Pretty sure that's the same Dave Neal, he now does mostly SEC games on the ESPN networks, usually SECN. He does football, basketball, and baseball. In basketball he has been paired with Dane Bradshaw a lot but I think Dane has moved up the ranks a bit and is getting to do more ESPN2 and ESPN games. He was pretty young when he got the play by play gig for JP.
 
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wmcovol said:
That was the beginning of the TV expansion. Before that there was 1 college game a week, occasionally a night game addition.

Some of the greatest SEC games in history were not televised. You’d watch the Dickey, Battle or Majors Show religiously. We’d also watch the ABC review show with Bill Fleming covering 5 or 6 game highlights on Sunday morning. People today have no clue.
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I remember in 1989 staying and watching Headline News Sports at 20 and 40.past the hour all night just to catch a couple of highlights of Tennessee upsetting UCLA in the Rose Bowl.

And then staying up the following Sunday night to watch George Michael's Sports Machine to see if he would show anything from that game.

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dobre_shunka said:
I remember in 1989 staying and watching Headline News Sports at 20 and 40.past the hour all night just to catch a couple of highlights of Tennessee upsetting UCLA in the Rose Bowl.

And then staying up the following Sunday night to watch George Michael's Sports Machine to see if he would show anything from that game.

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George Michael’s Sports Machine was awesome.
 
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ETV said:
Tennessee was televised a LOT back in the mid to late 90's.
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Yep but life of the Hill began long before then. Until 1983 there were very few Vol football games televised.
 

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VolsSportsFan said:
I'm old enough to remember hoping maybe half the games were on TV.
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Ah yes, the old days when we thought the NCAA was the "bad guy" for trying to keep big media money away from college sports.

Then NCAA v OK Board of Regents (1984) was lost by the NCAA and all of us fans cheered because we got lots of TV games and the schools got lots of money from media companies.

Now look, the NCAA is still the "bad guy" because they didn't control the big media money coming into the schools even though they lost the lawsuit trying to control the big media money.
 
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Who all remembers when, the only two ways we saw the games were through the voice of John Ward or the Majors and Fulmer shows? As a kid, my highlight of the weekend was waiting for the shows to come on Sunday afternoons.
 
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JL24 said:
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Jefferson Pilot Sports hates us. That was a gratuitous clip of Shane Matthews handing the ball off for a Florida touchdown against the Vols at the 1:08 mark. I’m 70% joking. Seems very unnecessary given that it was the only clip
they showed that had nothing to do w/ Bama or Vandy
 
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