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ESPN/ABC Announcing Teams



Dave Neal won't ever die. He just won't. He'll be back for the 12:30 eastern game with Andre Ware and Cara Capuano. The rest of the list was released yesterday. So dive in here if you're interested in seeing who will be calling the college football games.

This announcement helps temper my amazement when I looked down at my BlackBerry in between kid's rides at Williamsburg's Busch Gardens and saw this from reader E.H.:

"C’Lay-

Take all this with a grain of salt, but I thought someone should look into it. I would do it myself except baby #3 is coming in 9 days….yes, my wife and I aren’t that bright.

So, a friend of a friend ran into Dave Neal at lunch recently in Atlanta. Dave conveys that he and the JP crew will be doing the early ESPN game this season. Have you heard this? Are they bringing their non-HD cameras, 3 week late scoreboards and ALL the Dave’s?

Please don’t use my name on this one. I need to protect the innocent."


You'll recall that I buried the JP/LF/Raycom hatchet after Dave Neal reached out to me through a third party. Even still, I had cold chills.

In light of our make-up, I don't know how ESPN overlooked me as his partner instead of Andre Ware. So I don't have a Heisman, I can match my subjects and verbs together in the correct tense...usually. Regardless, the only analogy that really fits here is that Dave Neal got too big for the other two Daves. Yep, he's Beyonce to their Destiny's Child.

Anyway, the 11:30 central game will never die. Ever.

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Posted by Clay Travis at 9:52 AM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Flip4au said...

I guess it was time to shake it up a bit at ESPN/ABC . Why did they bust up Mike Patrick and Todd Blackledge? It's not that i have a problem with Brad Nessler but Patrick and Blackledge did the sat. night SEC game pretty good. I still like Ron Franklin calling SEC football.But please God put Dave Neal down. I had hoped that the new Espn/abc agreement would have ended him. I realize that you and him have kissed and made up but I can't stand him since his TBS days.Sorry for the rant but I was having a perfect day till I read this.

July 10, 2009 2:20 PM  

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