Look, it is in ESPN's Connecticut, upper East Coast DNA to make fun of "flyover country." And that includes the entire southeastern US.
I mean, what other entertainment company would pick this as the face of a major new undertaking like the SEC Network:
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You know? The same industry that prizes youthful beauty above intelligence, good lucks above good character? What does it tell you when THAT industry picks Finebaum to anchor it all?
ESPN has been trolling the SEC for decades. Not just Tennessee--the entire SEC. And I think they see it as super-paradoxical that the SEC, the top engine of their profit from college football, is a place they look down their noses at.
So, really. Who gives a damn what team they pick to win, or where they set up for a new week of Game Day?
Go Vols!