Really!? College Station!?

[NittanyLion15]

Boneheads at ESPN call State College, College Station when talking about the whooping Michigan took last year during the UCF Temple broadcast a few minutes ago.


To people outside of college football it may see like a whatever moment... but the lack of ESPN's attention to detail, or really giving a crap about reporting THE RIGHT stuff is ridiculous.

The mispronunciations during the Penn State Iowa game were ridiculous. I mean THAT'S YOUR JOB

 

[ftlpsu]

I picked up on it....

 

[ILLINOISLION]

Have also heard in the past (on more than one occasion) State College incorrectly identified as College Park.

 

[NittanyLion15]

Have also heard in the past (on more than one occasion) State College incorrectly identified as College Park.

It just makes no sense to me. I consider myself to be a big college football fan, and pride myself on knowing where the majority of school are located. My friends who are every bit as passionate about the sport as I am, can also name almost all of them. The fact that ESPN has announcers on the air that blow a call like that when they know prior to the broadcast that they will have to do a segment to market the upcoming big games over the weekend.

College Station my ass... Anyone notice how college station just happens to be where Texas A&M resides, who I'd say is VASTLY overrated and ranked with 3 losses? Why boost A&M? .... Because it's arguably Bama's best win

 

[KnightWhoSaysNit]

If we could just get them to say "U-P" instead of State College or Penn State that could get really fun.

 

[Nittany Ziggy]

The fact that ESPN has announcers on the air that blow a call like that when they know prior to the broadcast that they will have to do a segment to market the upcoming big games over the weekend.

The path to becoming an announcer on espn involves blowing more than his call!

Or...... it was a slip of the tongue - the tongue in the mouth of a numbskull who’s words ought not to be given any weight anyway.

This announcer has probably slipped his tongue in places other than the mouth of said numbskull!

 

[PennState_one]

Please let us leave the BIG

 

[Dave-97]

The stadium is in University Park, not even State College. This has annoyed me for years. Yes, I have a low threshold.

 

[pandaczar12]

I hate ESPN as much as everyone else, but it likely is just a case of an announcer being human and making a mistake.

 

[artsandletters]

The stadium is in University Park, not even State College. This has annoyed me for years. Yes, I have a low threshold.

I’ll bet my threshold is lower than yours but I won’t try to prove it here.

 

[j4golf]

Well, hopefully if they are scheduled to announce a home game for ESPN they travel to college station

 

[NittanyLion15]

ESPN wants to know how to fix their ratings? How about start by taking care of the little things, maybe the big things will take care of themselves.

 

[psu7113]

Boneheads at ESPN call State College, College Station when talking about the whooping Michigan took last year during the UCF Temple broadcast a few minutes ago.


To people outside of college football it may see like a whatever moment... but the lack of ESPN's attention to detail, or really giving a crap about reporting THE RIGHT stuff is ridiculous.

The mispronunciations during the Penn State Iowa game were ridiculous. I mean THAT'S YOUR JOB

Agree with your sentiments, but to be fair you did misspell whopping...

 

[PSUrob182]

it is absolutely mind blowing that grown men would give a shit about this. OP how old are you