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Topic: "Where my falcons at...?"

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BobcatChopper78
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"Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 9:58:35 AM

Honestly, that was one of the most ridiculous college commercials i've ever seen. Plus, we all know that any rapper in a MAC institution's commercial should always be Jesty Beatz.

Btw, BG's message board from last night's game was hilarious. Outside of when they went up by 2 scores, it was pretty much all negative. One guy was actually rooting for their QB to be injured and out for the game. Stay classy BG...

http://www.ay-ziggy-zoomba.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=28705

Oh, and Go Bobcats!

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 11:59:58 AM

Wasn't that impressed with the video or rap, and that was one of the more awkward booth interviews I've seen.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 12:30:51 PM

It was an odd interview. The guy can't speak. "Props to everyone" - lol. Guess he wasn't the lucky charm they thought he was. I hate crap - I mean rap.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 12:37:00 PM

anorris wrote:

Wasn't that impressed with the video or rap, and that was one of the more awkward booth interviews I've seen.

I thought the full video was okay but I completely agree about the interview. I was cringing the whole time and they kept it going for no apparent reason.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 12:53:21 PM

OUVan wrote:

anorris wrote:

Wasn't that impressed with the video or rap, and that was one of the more awkward booth interviews I've seen.

I thought the full video was okay but I completely agree about the interview. I was cringing the whole time and they kept it going for no apparent reason.

To be fair, I'm not a huge rap person, and yes, the video was fine quality-wise, but that was lost on me when it was put out that they'd hired in a company to do it, and it wasn't a student's work.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 1:16:32 PM

I love rap music and I thought the video was hilarious. Our pathetic fans didn't even clap when Bob Walter was honored on the field during the Temple game. At least the BGSU students know who built the new arena thanks to that video. The funniest part of the booth interview was when the rapper asked, "Where my Falcons at?" and one of the clowns calling the game replied, " Actually, they are on the 5 yard line.". LMAO!!!

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 1:36:21 PM

Uhhh . . . 5th place??

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 1:45:31 PM

I just keep thinking that question would play well in a Ingmar Bergman film.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 2:05:23 PM

Old Zone wrote:

Uhhh . . . 5th place??

LOL!!!

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 2:31:53 PM

Great comeback by the Bobcats last night and good luck in the championship game. I'll be rooting for you. If NIU wins as expected, it will be quite a match up. Harnish is a tremendous player, but I think the Bobcats have the balance necessary to win. And a great kicker.

You witnessed our seventh loss in the last 24 games on the last play of the game. Not the last series or losing late. Seventh on the last play. Gee whiz, we need to get better and a little luckier. When you add in our schedule- WMU/NIU/UT/no Akron- you have to really make plays in every game quarter in and quarter out. We didn't but hopefully we can win in Buffalo. We return 18 starters and all specialists so that will help.

Stroh Center rap? I am amazed at these posts- everybody nationally from ESPN, SI bloggers, to Fox Sports to twitter feeders have been absolutely universal in praise. We have communications from athletics/develoment depts from likes of Auburn, UCLA etc not only praising it but asking about details. It has energized our alums all over the country. If they have any connection to the bldg/donors, they really appreciate it.

It is great.

Our student on ESPN last night soph Roscoe Blair is a fine young man. He did a tremendous job thanking our alums and donors and recognizing others. Might want to cut him some slack at age 19. The announcers did a very poor job holding him ands that is not his fault. He is a an excellent student. The production was handled by a number of young BG grads and others but the stars of the video are entirely BG undergrads. Additionally, if you know the donors shown as I do, the entire video becomes even more memorable and/or funny. Those four guys are miles away from that genre etc but were happy to play along and just have a little fun.

Yes, it is FUN!

Easy to criticize 10 minutes on ESPN w bumbling announcers but let's at least give BG some credit for an inventive approach to publicity and donor recognition and our students for thier hardwork. I realize this is the Bobcat board, but we are all the MAC. The building is a game changer for us. And the video is viral. It works. For us.

Good luck in Detroit. Go Falcons!

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 2:50:03 PM

falconfan wrote:

It looks like it's really working. You guys had literally dozens of fans there last night.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 2:50:26 PM

Mr F Fan is correct. Had the entire video been shown to the TV audience the interview might not have been quite so horrific. The fault goes to the TV crew IMHO for bringing in a student who was obviously not prepared to stand there and make intelligent comments about football, alumni and his "career" of 12 months. What were they thinking? They showed how much prep was done on their end when they wrongly tried to credit him with writing and producing the video. I thought the young man did everything he could to save them but, alas, it didn't work

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 3:03:34 PM

Thought the kid did fine. ESPN should have picked a point where they could have shown more of it, rather than trying to do bits and pieces of it in the middle of play. I actually watched the video of it from a link on another Bobcattack thread and thought it was hilarious. Really liked the old guys who made the Stroh Center possible playing along in it.

ESPN was the one with the egg on their face in my opinion. It's the old lawyer thing, don't ask a question you don't already know the answer to. When they congratulated Roscoe for writing and producing the video and he readily acknowledged that they actually hired an outside firm to do it, the embarrassment became ESPN's lack of prep work.

The fact that the ESPN crew was in BG a day early for a class on "TV football production", one would have thought that ESPN would have done their own homework for the Roscoe interview.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 3:27:46 PM

BobcatSports wrote:

The fact that the ESPN crew was in BG a day early for a class on "TV football production", one would have thought that ESPN would have done their own homework for the Roscoe interview.

I wonder what they learned in that class because in my opinion those announcers were terrible. It wasn't the JV crew or the 3rd string. It was like ESPN found these guys on the street, gave them suits and told them to talk about MAC football for 3 hours even though they probably had never watched a MAC game. They made 5 year old comments that I couldn't believe a professional announcer was making for a DI FBS football game.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 4:10:59 PM

Color commentator Ray Bentley not only does a weekly MAC game but also played linebacker in the MAC.

If for nothing else, Bentley gets credit for going off on today's football players for not using proper technique in tackling.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 4:12:50 PM

I suppose one question to be asked is that if the second quarter could be turned into an infomercial for a brand new basketball arena that can't sell out the grand opening, where was the opportunity for such a moment for Ohio during the Temple game.

I know of several campus rappers that could have used the ESPN exposure. And if it's because of the viral nature of Mr. Frack's dribbling, I know of about a gazillion page views of some dance our band did.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 4:23:03 PM

Falconfan is right. The video was funny and raised the profile of the school in a positive way. I've actually shown it to other people, and I have renewed interest in heading to that vast wasteland on I-75 to check out the arena when the Bobcats travel there.

The people ripping ESPN are absolutely right. These announcers seem intent to prove that they don't even belong on the D list. They do so much wrong fundamentally. In the last two broadcasts of Ohio games, they've called one or more schools by the wrong name, gotten multiple players' names wrong, and completely misunderstood basic rules and tactics. The guys on STO do much, much better, and they're not anyone you'd confuse with Vin Scully.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 4:43:02 PM

bobcatsquared wrote:

Color commentator Ray Bentley not only does a weekly MAC game but also played linebacker in the MAC.

If this were the case then I don't remember whether it was him or the play by play who said it. If it was the play by play guy then Ray should've been able to correct him on the spot but didn't. When the MAC East records were shown in the 2nd half I believe one commented about how if we lost then he wouldn't want to be the one who had to figure out the tiebreaker for who won the East. Now I thought it was Ray who said this but if not he should've known that we had already beaten the 2 other teams Temple and Kent and had Miami the next game.

So even if he does do a MAC game every week he does a poor job of soaking up knowledge to help him sound like he knows what he's talking about. That is just 1 example but I deleted the recording I had of the game to go back and give you more.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 5:22:26 PM

I thought the Stroh Center Rap video was great when I saw online, and what they showed of it last night looked great. Agree with others who would have liked to see the whole thing, as you didn't really get to see a lot of the donors being great sports and playing along with it. I also thought that the kid did fine, just that he was left out there for too long.

As for the broadcast crew...was this a spontaneous decision to bring him on? They looked like there had been NO prepwork for him, no pre-interview by them or a producer.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 6:11:29 PM

I dug the video. Old dudes and cardigan rhymes? So full of win.

As for the announcers, one of them mentioned Weller being well out of range or something to that extent. Weller shoves it in his face, 49 yds, splits the pipes. I left the couch for that one.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 6:55:27 PM

The combination of old people and rap music is traditionally referred to as a "Rappin' Granny" scenario.

"I'm rappin' granny and I'm here to say...I bake cookies in a special way."

This sort of business only serves to make the viewer uncomfortable and should be avoided at all costs.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 7:08:07 PM

We had the rap posted on this board recently, and as I remember it got good comments here.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 8:17:20 PM

OUBob wrote:

Problem is, these guys only look at THIS year's stats. If they had done their homework (or at least had career stats of key people available), they would've seen that Weller hit a 52-yarder in '09 and at 51-yarder last year. They might not pull these guys in off the streets, but the midweek guys usually also do a weekend game involving AQ schools, so they put most of their effort into that game.

As for the interview, the problem was that they had two middle-aged white guys who don't know rap. (I'm an old white guy who agrees with Stevie Wonder that rap isn't music.) Their kids probably listen to Justin (Yuck) Bieber or Britney (Gack) Spears. You can tell when somebody's uncomfortable doing an interview and ESPN's guys were almost as uncomfortable as the kid was. Clearly, everybody there was out of the their league.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 8:30:38 PM

Pete Chouteau wrote:

Hammer, meet nail. I was only able to watch the time edited reair this morning on ESPN, and somehow the "infomercial" for the Stroh made the edit, but the Hershey punt block and several other key plays were cut from the rebroadcast. Someone in CT really wanted that interview and infomercial to hit the airwaves to the detriment of what actually occurred on the field.

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RE: "Where my falcons at...?"

Posted: 11/17/2011 9:00:28 PM

I thought Bentley's most embarrassing moment in a never ending series of embarrasing moments was his saying BG was struggling to score in the red zone, just as they were going in for their 4th redzone score of the evening. ESPN had shown the graphic a number of times were we were 0 for 5 in redzone trips and the play by play guy had to do the 'ol hey Ray, I think you mean the Bobcats are going 0fer in the redzone, not BG.

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