I'm here to count the band shots.


Texas should win this easily.

SSR, that will take focus, persistence and several cycles through your fingers and toes. Godspeed.

Texas 45
Ohio State 24
Band count: 108

God I can't stand Vasgersian. I'm so glad he's not doing Padres TV anymore.

Bandshot 1.

Matty V should be a local weatherman. Tim Ryan should be wearing brown shorts and hauling boxes.

Matt V. announcing this game too... sigh.

Was it The Blind Boys of Alabama doing the National Anthem? It was no Bonerama, but still pretty cool.

I know this is off-topic, but on Thursday I plan on making the long drive to watch the National Championship Game in 3D. I have no idea how that'll be (aside from the fact that I know I'll be on the edge of my seat seeing the 100 shots of the band geeks from both schools), but I'll talk about it in the appropriate thread once I get back from it.

Oh c'mon, get to the game already! All the Fox stalling is pretty frustrating.

I don't know why, but I consider Jim Tressel to be an overrated Division I-A coach. The Longhorns will run them over.


Texas 41 Ohio State 24



So this is the final game for Matt Vasgersian, hopefully this does not mean Chris Rose to the booth.


2 bandshots from Texas, 3 before the game even starts.

Band shot, shot of someone's mom, and then another band shot! Oh yay. Wash, rinse, and repeat for how many ever dozens of times the next 4 hours.

Damn Chris Myers is doing this game to. Talk about burnout.

Texas 48
Suckeyes 26
Band Count 140

Texas 40
THE Ohio State U 20 (just a random guess)

Band Count 169
Promos for that lying show with Tim Roth 50

Good grief. How many people need to be on the field for the coin toss!

Tony Stewart, yeesh.

How come "Fat" Tony is doing the coin toss. I'd rather see Cloris Leachman.

Bevo looks to be about as excited for the pregame as we are.

Tony Stewart takes the air off Bevo's spoiler and spins him into the wall.

Is it me, or does Tony Stewart look like he could be the next John Daly. He better start losing weight or he won't fit in his car.

That Frito Lay CEO has some serious helmet hair.

Laura Okmin scares me......

I hate to admit this, but I used to work for Frito lay in Sacramento. Actually not that bad of job.

Um, how does Tostitos "inspire greatness in others"? I mean, honestly! That's what that CEO said. How does a brand of tortilla chips "inspire greatness in others"? The only inspiration I get is when I dip the chips into the salsa mix.

Laura looks like one of the "Desperate Housewives of Organge County"

@49er - well-stocked vending machines in the breakroom there, huh?

4 pregame bandshots, keep that in mind.


First in-game bandshot to Texas.

@ Mal, no I stocked at grocery stores.

"He brings a load while running the ball."-Ryan

Is the sound mix off? I hear the drums from the band well enough, but can't hear the announcers very well.

Band shot.

Come on Pryor, he had room to get past the first down marker!


BAND! OSU! 2 shots in the game, 6 shots overall.

Two stupid plays in a row. Pryor running out of bounds too soon with the marker right in front of him and then the sub penalty.

@ Mal and you are complaining. Matt is horrible.

@ 49er - good point - it's like someone whispering a pew behind you at church. Regardless of what they are saying, it is annoying.

matt v and ryan forced me to mute the it and turn on espnradio. it's about 5 seconds ahead of the tv but well worth it

-dan

aaaaand three and out.

I like Vasgersian, but football is not his best sport.

Fuck me hard.

band in dorky berets.

BAND OSU!! 7 is now the count.

I think Ohio St. is going to win this game. I don't think Texas wants to be there. They want to be in the Championship game.

band in dorky cowboy hats.

@49er, well Ohio State wants to be in a non-BCS game, where they belong. ;-)


One thing I must say, Pryor is very elusive and is not erratic on the run so far.

Matt: "The Nissan Z Factor player today, Tim, is Terrell Pryor".

Tim: (silence)

Vasgersian is terrible with sneaks or something like that, Wells never carried the ball, Boeckman did.


Band OSU! 8!

Did you know that McCoy is the next sexy rexy? There will be a bunch of ponies in austin.

BAND OSU! 9!


We're in for a long night.

Tim: "It's based on the get off by the defensive end."

Texas band! 10! 6th since kickoff.

Knowing how Ohio State rbs have been fairing, beanies ball are going to collapse.

"Get off" is one of Tim Ryan's go-tos, right ahead of "A Gap."

His ability to finish? You mean get sacks?

Hello everyone.

I hate when they show that highlight on Lie to Me.


FIRE BRUCE DEHAVEN NOW!

Damn fine kick

Ohio State getting off to a better start? Where have I seen that one?


BAND OSU! 11!

...from a bunch of draft dodgers

Enjoy that Rod Marinelli-led defense, SS.

/kidding
//wouldn't wish that on my harshest enemy

Cut to Penguins-Rangers on VS, and the shot is Cindy Crosby complaining to refs. Nice move NHL !

they will show those "courtesy" nut shots that only a crosby could love.

@ RJBO, Ruskell is just hiring guys that he worked with in Atlanta and Tampa Bay.


If you notice, no Super Bowl appearance when he was GM with either team. I'll be outraged if they hire this loser.


BAND! TEXAS! 12!

Folks, we have a baseball crew on tonight's football game telecast. Getting this info took a little while, but here goes...

Bill Webb is tonight's director--he is the lead MLB on Fox director and directs 120 Mets games on SNY.

Producer Jeff Gowen has done football games in his long career, including an analyst-only experiment Fox tried for one game in 1995 (the analysts none other than Terry Bradshaw and Jimmy Johnson). Recently, though, he has been the lead producer of the MLB on TBS. Interesting tidbit: Gowen was once married to Olympic swimmer Dara Torres.

Hes like a returner with ball in his hands. - Ryan, who incredibly has a law degree

What an odd looking option play.

christ, that was like watching a chicago bears third down play.

Deven - double space that and put it in a spiral binder and you have yourself a darn fine research paper, son.

You better believe we've got band! OSU! 13!


And right after the commercial break it's Texas band! 14!


Wells is a beast of course.

Matt V: "Gotta love the Texas marching band uniform."

RJBO - what is the new photo?

BAND OSU! 15!

Pryor, it's okay to keep running.

Nice tackling Texas

I didn't think this was going to be a band off. With a Step It Up during half time.

@Mal: Jim Cantore with a painted NBC peacock on his head during the Winter Classic.

What a tool.

If this keeps up, will Muschamp be fired as coach in waiting ?

What...the...fuck...

jeez...someone should be counting Muschamp shots. How many times do we get the Musch face?

Way to go Texas, you finally realize Pryor is mobile.


Awful snap, awful kick, OSU waste points.


Texas driving to end the first quarter.

BAND! TEXAS! 16!


Pregame = 4
1st quarter = 12

Texas = 8
Ohio State = 8

Total = 16

At least these "Allstate recession" commercials are better than the "My State Farm agent gave me ice for my insulin after Katrina" ones.

Vasgersian and Ryan define "Awful Announcing".

TEXAS BAND to start the 2nd quarter. Ugh.

Well, the only reason I am researching this is to see if there is a difference in crews as to how many band shots we see. I'd think a baseball crew would give us more band because baseball TV is more theatrical.

I wrote on here the other night that the lead BCS production crew is the "E" NFL crew while the Sugar was done by the NFL "B" crew, which, along with the rest of their BCS production, doesn't make a bit of sense to me.

Apparently no team has been held scoreless in the 1st quarter since the '85 Bears. What are these jackasses talking about?

Ohio State band! 18!


Texas has no deep passing game so far. A lot of short passing.


First down Texas, TEXAS BAND! 19!

The Salvation Army has a band ?

don't worry longhorn faithfuls, ohio will screw this up

MattVag: "A gain of maybe 2" when Obanagya is tackled behind the line of scrimmage.

wow...where is texas' balls? no endzone lovin?

Short pass on 3rd and goal from the 18? Oh well.


Texas 3 Ohio State 3


Band Count: Texas 10 Ohio State 9

Slate Sanchez > Matty V.

And Slate Sanchez has to be the one to die a horrifying death from nuclear fall-out... where's the justice?

what pun?

Matt Vasgersian has one foot out the door.

Or maybe both

Texas band! 20!

Texas band again! 21!

Matt V: "I love when the Hail Mary works, and the PbP man blows it out."

Better than "...and without that Pledge Pin."

The Big XII is not as good as we thought.

Anybody seen the "new" ESPN.com?

IDK, Anonymous at 9:02. I didn't hear the full quote myself, but I'm sure it was something asinine.

Aerial coverage of a game where the stadium has its roof closed = logical.

You know, it'd be nice to see a replay of that catch that Wells made, as I wasn't even sure that Pryor meant to pass to him, but I guess we have to see a standard highlights package of Beanie instead. Sigh.

Marky Mark is an Ohio st cheerleader?

Did Texas spend their practices learning how not to tackle ?

Tim Ryan is not as good as everyone thinks that he is.

My browser froze the first time, Mal.

Oh crap, Nathan is back.

Laura Okmin is pretty hott, but she cannot report in a cow pasture.

I think Texas practices consisted of tackling plastic bags blowing in the air

Marky Mark is not tall enough to be a cheerleader.

Haven't you been listening to Vag, 'Yet Another Idiot'? All plays to Wells must now be referred to as a "Big Beanie Gainer."

Ignore the trolls with extremely tiny genitalia, SSReporters. Like gonorrhea, it'll eventually go away.

SSR, this is why we can't have nice things

I think there might've been an "English ____" variation in earlier posts too, SS.

OSU BAND! 22!


Texas does not know what a run is in the Big XII.

@RJBO - I was trying to follow the game on GameCast and it showed it as "game preview" even after the game was well into the 1st quarter.

@jg 9:11 I'm a longtime Horns fan, we've never known how to tackle.

Why does Tim Ryan sound like Dan Fouts?

my browser froze both times I tried at work and I got yelled at by my wife for swearing in front of the kids when I opened the full screen video/commercial at home.

Um, yeah I have been. I heard that phrase; I'm not sure why I was asked in particular about it, but yeah, that phrase just doesn't sound right, even though by face value it should be fine.

@ Nero - funny.

Texas band! 23!


FOX is the worst.


Pryor again can't be tackled.


OSU BAND! 24!


Vasgersian sucks with field position marking.

Matt Vasgersian having a horrible going away party.

If this keeps up, Herbstreit will have all offseason to pimp OSU on the WWL.

THE HORROR !

I did, Mal. And Ford apparently spent all its bailout money on the front page. Damn.

At least they are giving people a link to provide feedback about the new design. That's a wonderful idea.

FOX only has three BCS games next and is gone, thankfully.

I don't buy Budweiser/Bud Light (Rum, Labatt's, Newcastle, Stella Artois), but if I buy a 6-er of something with "drinkability," will the freaking commercials go away?

Sad to say, but I'll take TRTIMP, "Nes" (as McGuire kept calling him), or Captain 3 Sheets in a heartbeat.

Thank you for that useless comment, Matt. IDIOT!!!!!!!!!

Um, what was the joke that Matty V. made about Night Ranger winning the Battle of the Bands between the OSU and Texas bands? I mean, what the hay? I have no idea what kind of humor he was even going for there.

Matt V: "The winner of the Battle of the Bands?"

Fox executives that were former first chair oboes?

Double band shot! 26!


And of course Vasgersian mentions bands.


Ohio State does not want this game, another penalty.

Thankfully Sean McDonough was doing the basketball game on ESPN. The night has not been a total loss.

I hope to God that Sean McDonough will be doing one of the BCS games when they go to ESPN.

Apparently Gatorade doesn't want white dudes to drink "G".

Ali with parkinsons could still kick the tail of most those guys in the G ad

And then they come back from break with an obvious product placement--or maybe they're doing a public service in letting people know what in the hell G is supposed to stand for.

Matt V: "What was the difference in the the battle of the bands competition on Friday at the Scottsdale Waterfront? The Winner in the battle of the bands: Night Ranger."

Followed by...

"If its a battle of the band uniforms then Texas wins because those folks all look like they just got through loading the family into a log ride at Wally World"

they will stop showing drinkability when you start being a nuggnut.

Sorry Sean Wallys world is closed for the season.

I had to step out and I come back to find out that no one has scored a TD yet. I should have stayed out longer.

Brad Nessler will hopefully do the national championship game since Brent Musberger has an insane crush on the Rose Bowl.

that looks like an awful injury. Hope he's okay.

Matt V: "The game college football fans are waiting for..."

Utah vs USC in the semis?

verison phone is the the useless version of a swiss army knife

SSR 9:28

Agreed

+2 Lord Nero. Seriously, how in the hell can commercials get worse every year? I'm dreading the Super Bowl ads Madison Ave. came up with this year.

He moved his hand, so that is a good sign.

looks like is collar bone is pringles. that sucks cuz that shit hurts really bad

RJBO 9:28

The BCS lords do not approve of your statement

My TV is muted. Maybe I should keep it that way.

Hey we get a Texas bandshot! 27!

Colt & Shipley are roommates = AJ Hawk's dating Brady Quinn's sister

thank god this Vasgersian fraud is finally being exposed Nationally.

I'd take waterboarding over the years of listening to his drivel on Padre telecasts the past few years.

"The Buckeyes have outyardaged." - Matty V.

"Out-Yardaged" and "Out-Time of Possessioned?" Wot?

"Out-time-of-possessioned?" This, folks, is a grammarian's worst nightmare.

@ RJBO: = Jerome Bettis is from Detroit (Super Bowl XL)

Matty V. just debacled the English language.

Going for it on 4th and 7 ?

How Bellicheatian of you Mack Brown

Yay, more band! 28, this last one was from Texas.

Texas looks really flat, and they're going for it on 4th and 7.


Okay, I think OSU may blow them out if they don't watch it. Pass protection is crap.

Very true, Mal (on both accounts).

In other bad news for the 'Horns, #4 Women's basketball just lost at Purdue.

Manning Face from McCoy's parents.

is game is starting to become ugly

Colt is probably coming back.

jumpyness before the play?

I doubt this game is selling a lot of nacho chips.

That's funny...the umpire was briefly on the wrong side of the ball when OSU started this possession.

This game is very Sun Bowl-ish.

Nothing is worse than waterboarding. Just ask Al Michaels.

I really don't think Matt gives a damn tonight, this is pathetic from both men.


Think of it this way, this means Thom or Chris Rose could be promoted to NFL duty, and that doesn't sound so good.

secretly texas team has been switched with the "make a wish" foundation.

The hot chick next to his parents is Colt's girlfriend. She runs cross country.......AT BAYLOR!!!

Matt V: "A long one, right down centerfield. He tried to hit a home run with that one."

I thought Matt V was through completely with Fox after this game was over.

No kidding.

This is arguably the worst BCS season since its inception, this has been so boring.

At the end of 4 and a half, it's Indians 6. Rangers 3.

SSR, if you were very ambitious, you should try counting the number of telecast minutes filled with too-loud drumming. I feel like I'm at some tribal council.

BAND TEXAS! 29!

even the refs look bored

Texas Band for #30.


A big gainer, a big penalty, band shot #31, Texas again.

If that were the case, Mal, we'd have Tom Hamilton screaming like a nut on the Indians radio broadcast.

A WAAAAAAYYYYY BACK...GONE! Victor Martinez!

/that dude sucks

Matt should never call another football game again.

FOX really got screwed with the playoff rotation this year.

Jints-Iggles early Sunday game.

SS, Fox needs Thom to stay on Big Ten Network because they need a large presence to justify all the crap they put the Big Ten markets through over the past couple of years.

Band shot #32, Texas.

@chad--now that u say that about the drumming, i will never be able to not hear it for the rest of the game. Thanks

Matt V: "The Yellow Line is Unofficial."

That should be the name of the blog I'd finally start.

Longhorns finally woke up.

Again another band shot for Texas. That's 33 total band shots for both teams since kickoff.

colt's gf could suck the sorrow off a recent widow.

Colt McCoy channeling his inner Chris Simms.

Nevermind.

Bevo just dropped a load on that play.

Oh my goodness Colt that was dumb, throw it away!!!


6-3 Ohio State at halftime in a boring half of football.


2 more band shots for Texas, 35 BANDSHOTS at the half.

Joe Benninanti doing the Penguins-Rangers game displayed more emotion in 5 minutes than these two have all night.

@Rockchalk-- Sorry about that... I have a need for strangers to share my misery.

And RJBO, Fox actually puts up a little graphic at times that says "Remember: The Yellow Line is Not Official." Just giving you some graphical ideas for your blog.

to sum up the first half...meh.

Two men on and Josh Hamilton up for the Rangers. He hits a drive to deep center. Grady Sizemore leaps to rob Hamilton of a 3 run homer to preserve the Tribe's three run advantage.

Get Matty V & Tim Ryan a 5-Hour Energy.

Matt has seen this football a lot this year.

Reece Davis, Brock Huard, Rod Gilmore and Bob Griese as in-studio cast. Interesting. Getting Griese ready for next year?

by interesting, i mean the regulars must still be on vacation.