ND's Talking Heads ... The good, bad & ugly

[greyhammer90]

You have the right to be paranoid. It's like cable. Most of you are too young to remember, but cable when it first came out was commercial free because you paid a monthly subscription. They slowly over time added commercials and told you it was to keep from passing along rising costs to the subscriber. You figured a few commercials were better than seeing your cable bill go up.

That's super depressing.

I suspect the ads will come in a form that aren't strictly ads, but sponsored articles to get around the "no ads ever" restriction. Articles about how "Company" made the suit for "Athlete" at the draft and how every suit is hand tailored and blah blah blah, and then the rest of the article will be about the guy getting drafted and a person who isn't really paying attention won't see the *Article sponsored by Company disclaimer at the bottom.

 

[theclassickiller]

Crab cakes guy?

Wasn't Driskell the crab cakes guy?

 

[Irish#1]

Wtf is this true?!?

Yes it is. There were no packages back then. You got basic cable and paid extra if you wanted Showtime or HBO. They were the only movie channels available and they only showed movies. They weren't into creating their own series or movies. The number of channels available was pretty small with a lot being shopping networks. It was a cruel world back then.

 

[BobbyMac]

Yes it is. There were no packages back then. You got basic cable and paid extra if you wanted Showtime or HBO. They were the only movie channels available and they only showed movies. They weren't into creating their own series or movies. The number of channels available was pretty small with a lot being shopping networks. It was a cruel world back then.

You didn't if you gave Crusader $100. In exchange I'd give you a hot plate that if I remember this correctly, would enable you to get all premium channels for free if you hooked it up between the cable box and the tv. Once again, that was the rumor.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

You didn't if you gave Crusader $100. In exchange I'd give you a hot plate that if I remember this correctly, would enable you to get all premium channels for free if you hooked it up between the cable box and the tv. Once again, that was the rumor.

*peering closely*
"Dude, I totally just saw a nipple!"

 

[greyhammer90]

*peering closely*
"Dude, I totally just saw a nipple!"

I feel personally attacked

 

[GrangerIrish24]

*peering closely*
"Dude, I totally just saw a nipple!"

I used to watch this channel like if I was studying the zapruder film.

 

[Veritate Duce Progredi]

*peering closely*
"Dude, I totally just saw a nipple!"

If you turned that channel on after a certain time (or one of the scrambled channels), i think it was around 1 am, you'd get the first 5-10 mins unscrambled which was usually enough time to see some nudies. Many a night were spent waiting for those golden minutes.

 

[condoms SUCk]

Oh.........my..........god.

 

[Irish#1]

You didn't if you gave Crusader $100. In exchange I'd give you a hot plate that if I remember this correctly, would enable you to get all premium channels for free if you hooked it up between the cable box and the tv. Once again, that was the rumor.

Or you just went out to the cable box and took off the filter. I knew many that did that. They tell me it worked great.

*peering closely*
"Dude, I totally just saw a nipple!"

That's pretty much what you saw.

While there was only HBO and Showtime each of those had several feeds to cover the countries time zones. If you missed something on the east coast feed, you could catch it on the west coast feed.

 

[IrishLion]

You didn't if you gave Crusader $100. In exchange I'd give you a hot plate that if I remember this correctly, would enable you to get all premium channels for free if you hooked it up between the cable box and the tv. Once again, that was the rumor.

My stepdad "confiscated" one of these from the police locker one day for "professional study on pirated cable."

Aka, we watched Wrestlemania that weekend for free, and then young IrishLion discovered Channel 72 later, and was changed forever.

 

[ThePiombino]

Spice > Playboy

Change my mind.

 

[gkIrish]

*peering closely*
"Dude, I totally just saw a nipple!"

Yea that was me. I also tried watching WWF PPVs this way. Sometimes you could watch half a match or something.

 

[GrangerIrish24]

Spice > Playboy

Change my mind.

Fact. Spice and the TV guide channel controlled my 1996.

 

[IrishLax]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Details about the secondary <a href="https://twitter.com/NDonNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NDonNBC</a> option on NBCSN this weekend. The Daelin Hayes aspect, in particular, should be quite interesting. <a href="https://t.co/lzrGvlazOu">pic.twitter.com/lzrGvlazOu</a></p>— Douglas Farmer (@D_Farmer) <a href="https://twitter.com/D_Farmer/status/1197566753016037376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I plan on watching this.

 

[IrishLion]

It's gonna be dope. Very cool that Hayes gets to be involved, too. I wonder if he's the film and television program.

Is it a coincidence that they give us this option the same weekend that Flutie will be talking up his alma mater?

"Boston College Story Hour(s) with Doug Flute, presented by Notre Dame Football on NBC" doesn't sound appealing.

 

[Some Irish Bloke]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Details about the secondary <a href="https://twitter.com/NDonNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NDonNBC</a> option on NBCSN this weekend. The Daelin Hayes aspect, in particular, should be quite interesting. <a href="https://t.co/lzrGvlazOu">pic.twitter.com/lzrGvlazOu</a></p>— Douglas Farmer (@D_Farmer) <a href="https://twitter.com/D_Farmer/status/1197566753016037376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I plan on watching this.

Yep, I'm tuning in as well.

Jess Smetana is hilarious; for anyone who doesn't already, she is a quality twitter follow.

 

[IrishLax]

Yep, I'm tuning in as well.

Jess Smetana is hilarious; for anyone who doesn't already, she is a quality twitter follow.

The best was when she pissed off Katy Perry lol

 

[EvilleIrish]

Yep, I'm tuning in as well.

Jess Smetana is hilarious; for anyone who doesn't already, she is a quality twitter follow.

She ain't tough on the eyes either....

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

Correction to that Tweet:

I do believe that Jess was caught in the "layoff" (purging) by SI.

 

[ulukinatme]

Damn, she's a treasure. Cute, Irish fan, and knows the dank memes and gifs. I think I'm in love.

 

[Irishize]

Correction to that Tweet:

I do believe that Jess was caught in the "layoff" (purging) by SI.

I heard her on the Pod of Gold w/ Eric Hansen & Tyler James and she’s still working for SI.

 

[Irishize]

It's gonna be dope. Very cool that Hayes gets to be involved, too. I wonder if he's the film and television program.

Is it a coincidence that they give us this option the same weekend that Flutie will be talking up his alma mater?

"Boston College Story Hour(s) with Doug Flute, presented by Notre Dame Football on NBC" doesn't sound appealing.

I do believe Daelin is majoring in communications so this will be right up his alley.

 

[KizerWilhelm]

Audibly groaned at the second half of this tweet.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No. 16 <a href="https://twitter.com/NDFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NDFootball</a> hosts Boston College in the final home game of the season this Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ET on NBC.<br><br>At halftime, a special feature will air commemorating the 35th anniversary of <a href="https://twitter.com/NDonNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NDonNBC</a>'s Doug Flutie’s 1984 Hail Mary when he was BC's QB.<a href="https://t.co/AOAXCk4TZ7">https://t.co/AOAXCk4TZ7</a></p>— NBC Sports PR (@NBCSportsPR) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCSportsPR/status/1197567558100094976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[SouthernIndianaNDFan]

It's gonna be dope. Very cool that Hayes gets to be involved, too. I wonder if he's the film and television program.

Is it a coincidence that they give us this option the same weekend that Flutie will be talking up his alma mater?

"Boston College Story Hour(s) with Doug Flute, presented by Notre Dame Football on NBC" doesn't sound appealing.

Haha definitely not a coincidence, and thankya jesus!

 

[Free Manera]

I wish NBC would just do a 180 and do homer ND broadcasts. Stop with the artificial unbiased bullshit (i.e insisting the color guy is always an alum from a rival school).

It should just be a 3 hour recruiting video for ND. When you watch a non-conference game on the Big 10 or SEC network, they don't pull for the nonconference team. It is usually pretty skewed toward the conference team, in fact.

It's just soft. It should be damn the torpedoes, this is the Notre Dame football channel so deal with it. Then the non ND fans can hate ND even more, everybody wins.

 

[KizerWilhelm]

Brady, on NBC: "If the opportunity was offered to me and I had the opportunity to do so, it’s definitely something that I’d be attracted to. However, I have not been approached by them." https://theathletic.com/1437799/201...-brady-quinn-ready-to-reinvent-himself-again/

 

[KizerWilhelm]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Unfortunately, I’m in the transactions again. After two seasons (and 14-plus glorious months) covering Notre Dame football and enterprise for <a href="https://twitter.com/IndyStarSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IndyStarSports</a>, my position has been eliminated. This isn’t a complete shock in light of the mega-merger, but it still hurts. 1/</p>— Mike Berardino (@MikeBerardino) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeBerardino/status/1204052046762123264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

So, Driskell is really bad at this lol...

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[ACamp1900]

Purdon't