I’ve expressed numerous times that I don’t care for College Gameday. Many of you seem to agree, especially since they got rid of Pollack and we’re left with the bloated musings of Herbstreit et al for a waste of a Saturday morning. The addition of Pat McAfee and his brocephus idiocy only makes it worse…then there is this news flash:
Oh, fuck off, Pat. You’re not right for anyone with an IQ over 50 and who isn’t pounding White Claws and Zyns from sunup to sundown.
My proposition to ESPN and Mickey would be to replace Gameday with good old Saturday morning cartoons, instead. Not the new Disney cartoons but the old ones. Here’s a quick reminder of the CBS lineup from 1984.
Well, five hours isn’t quick, but it’s still a trip down memory lane. Even though most of the cartoons back then were really just glorified advertisements for toys, the production value was typically lousy and thrown together as fast as possible, kind of like Gameday is today. Still, I couldn’t quit watching the Saturday morning lineups, especially Pee Wee’s Playhouse.
Given the choice, I’d rather watch paint dry on the side of an elephant’s ass than watch Gameday, but if I had to commit to watching anything for three plus hours, give me back my 80’s lineup of shows and a quarter pounder with cheese in a big styrofoam clamshell, and I’d be a happy man.
So, as a talking point, what were some of y’all’s favorite cartoons growing up as a kid?
Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies for me. Hannah-Barbera in a pinch.
Pee-Wee’s Playhouse is a trip when under the influence.
For current cartoons, Rick & Morty, American Dad, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, Archer and always The Simpsons.
💯 anything by Hanna-Barbera was in my rotation.
Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show. They still make me laugh.
I’ll take some Foghorn Leghorn any day. “I say son.” How many remember Mr. Green Jeans?
It’s background radio during our tailgates. But when I’m at home, I don’t tune in. It doesn’t add anything that you can’t find out from many other sources, and I have other things to do on Saturday mornings. I took my daughter to the Gameday set before the ND game because it was a huge game. But I prefer SEC Nation, and that’s only because Marty & McGee do their show the hour before. The problem is they set up way too far from our tailgate spot in Athens, so I’ve only visited their set in Jacksonville. I don’t care one way or the other re: McAfee.
And NO I would not like to see Pat McAfee back. What little bit of gameday I have watched he doesn’t fit the show. Bring Pollack back. At least he could intelligently talk football.
After more than a decade and a half away from the show and having replaced that time with mediation, yoga, charitable works, communing with the Dalia Lama, and having paired that reflective and spiritual life with a diet rich with antioxidants and hormone-free organic legumes, my considered opinion of ESPN’s College GameDay is:
I haven’t watched a second since Pollack got screwed for “disrespecting Saban”. Now Satan is joining the crew. Now they have cheer leaders for both Ohio State and Alabama. Screw them
Exactly and a reason of why my post focuses more broadly on ESPN coverage.
Cartoons: Anything Hanna Barbera Looney Toons, Bugs, Daffy, Wiley Coyote, Road Runner, Pepe Le pew, Woody Woodpecker, Speedy, Foghorn Leghorn.
I forget what was Saturday monrings and re runs now. Loved the Pink Panther but it WGN on weekday mornings IIRC, Garfield was good, Gummy Bears. I can’t remember what came on the same time as Muppet Babies but my younger sister and I would get argument as she loved it but something was on the same time I wwanted to watch.
Gameday/ESPN: Pat leaving would be a first step in making Gameday watchable. I was skipping it on some mornings before Pat or fast forwarding to catch actual football conversation, others it was just back ground noise while I hit up GTP and other blogs killing time before a game. The show was reduced to the producer or whatever the Bear was for decent incite into a game. What game prediction and analysis is shown has devolved into how to beat Vegas.
Football coverage no longer has enough X’s and O’s. I have to go to youtube for that and filmguy network is devolving into a Pat McAfee in attitude. Pat needs to go to a NFL show.
Further even camera work during game broadcasts needs improvement, they need to show the entire field more often rather than focus on isolated battles. Plays will be completed and you don’t know what the D was trying to do, routes on the other side of the field etc.
I am also tired of human interest stories. They need to be told but they air it in shows during the week, 20mins in gameday and then go back to it in games, showing the same 5-10min clips and then bring it up often during the game the person of interest is involved in. Please scale it back a touch and focus a bit more on schemes used by the teams, the chess match the coaches play.
Too old to rewatch Saturday morning cartoons. I would rather see aired great regional games of the past. Prior to Saturday kickoff might be nice.
I really DGAS if CFB game day is on or not. It’s been terrible for years. Meaningless blathering for the masses. I wish I could say it has no impact on my life. However Herbie has had way too much influence over the sport including playoff rankings. Along with pushing his personal views on the sport in general. Along with his newest interference into recruiting against Georgia. I expect their new star Saban to be less influenced by his paymasters. I can’t see Saban being told what to promote and saying OK. Hopefully Saint Nick plays it straight as he sees it.
No matter what you do or say Herbie your still a loser to Georgia. You always will be!
We were talking about maybe chromecasting old games to our tailgate TV. How cool would it be to watch Hobnail Boot and ‘22’s matchup before the Tennessee game? We have enough kids to get away with cartoons, too!
HOW DARE YOU ATTACK THE ZYN!!! I’ve never had one but I probably would have lived on those things instead of dip in the service! Lol, those sponson watches and field daying spaces don’t stay awake by themselves! And, getting that buzz before PT? Cant wait to see that take get obliterated by the real veterans, lol
I don’t know what changed, tbh; I’m sure it’s my sorry arse: I know moving back to Athens from out West and so many noon kickoffs really compressed my Saturday mornings and paying attention to GameDay (6am start in Reno) went away. I had even texted my friends that I don’t even buy the preview magazines anymore. Kirby has things rolling now and I don’t obsess the way I used to and really don’t trouble myself with other teams and tv shows. Workout, chores, get the tailgate right and watch the Dawgs roll – – just ain’t no time for the studio shows. Also, there’s enough content on YouTube to get my football nerd fix. Now, ima gonna kiss some ass, but I’d rather see some of y’all’s posts then the stuff on studio shows.
As an 80s kid – Saturday Morning Cartoons forever!!! Thanks to streaming and some DVDs, I get the old days rolling. Hell, on Long Run/Ride Saturdays I even treat myself to some sugared cereal 🥣 and some Johnny Quest, Thundarr, Scooby-Doo action
GO DAWGS!
i liked all of the above. Warner Bros were the best, to me. Hanna Barbera ones were also good.There was a cartoon called Astro Boy that I liked in middle school. The Max Fleisher Popeye cartoons, often seen on the Popeye Club, were ok.And Friz Freling’s Pink Panther was great. Pee Wee’s Playhouse was demented, but I watched it. 😉
As for Hillbilly Mrs Doubtfire, I don’t begrudge him getting paid for his schtick, but I don’t find him entertaining. And he has developed quite a case of rabbit ears. We all remember what you said about us, pat. I’m sure that will create a welcoming atmosphere for you and Big 10 Tweedle Des and Tweedle Dumb, should you guys show up. Pat stays, Pat quits, who cares?
”Hillbilly Mrs. Doubtfire”. You, good sir, win the internet for today. I’m going to have to “admire and acquire” that one for future references. Cheers!
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Haven’t watched Game Day in years, so no opinion. Don’t care to start.
As far as cartoons go, I grew up in the 60s, and the Warner Bros cartoons were the best. Rocky and Bullwinkle was great, liked George of the Jungle/Super Chicken/Tom Slick. Enjoyed The Jetsons.
is it weird I remember the Super Chicken theme? And Dudley DoRight was good (why was Snidely Whiplash green?). Rocky and Bullwinkle were great. I had quite an adventure in a bar called Bullwinkle’s in Clemson SC the evening of the unfortunate 1981 game with UGA. I loved cartoons back in the day. It’s all CGI now.
Pat McAfee can go pound sand for all I care.
I haven’t grown up yet so… Southpark, Archer, Squidbillies, and Robot Chicken.
“Hey, Hey, Hey….It’s Fat Albert!”
And I really, really hope McAfee goes.