U of M thread (in the Lions Forum) :)

[DanO]

You're allowing other people to dictate what you do............................You should never do that.

GO LIONS "10" !!!!!!!!!!

[NewOrleansLion]

A "Millen Sucks" chant would be the only time that Green and White and Maize and Blue would stand arm in arm with one common cause. Maybe it could work in the Middle East.

[SeattleLionsFan]

Dear espn. I will be watching the um/msu game this year with the sound off, including the commercials. Instead I will be listening to frank beckman and Jim brandstater on the radio.

Screw you!
Slf

[gibby]

A "Millen Sucks" chant would be the only time that Green and White and Maize and Blue would stand arm in arm with one common cause. Maybe it could work in the Middle East.

Are you saying it's a good thing to get the chant going


Or




Sending Millen to Afganistan?



I'm good with either one

[gibby]

Dear espn. I will be watching the um/msu game this year with the sound off, including the commercials. Instead I will be listening to frank beckman and Jim brandstater on the radio.

Screw you!
Slf

I usually listen to the radio when the game is on. That way I don't really need to focus on the broadcast as much, I can listen to the action (well this and a DVR).

[froot loops]

I'm not sure SLF's alternative is any better.

[SeattleLionsFan]

I love me some Brando. No one screams homer broadcaster like Brando doing Michigan games.

I have no problem with dudes enjoying football calling games!

[gjdodger]

How 'bout this. No "Fire Millen" chants, no sound turned off. Just take note of all of the advertisers and send each of them an e mail, saying due to ABC's insensitivity in putting Matt Millen on the Michigan-Michigan State broadcast, I'm less inclined to buy your products.

[nhwbrooklyn]

Pat Caputo The Oakland Press

There should be absolute outrage Matt Millen is the analyst for the MSU-Michigan game

Some decisions are just wrong, disrespectful and despicable.
ESPN/ABC assigning Matt Millen to be the analyst for the Michigan State-Michigan game Saturday in Ann Arbor is one of them. This state has struggled mightily economically and with its self-image. One of the worst aspects of that image's beating was the Lions' failure the eight years Millen was team president. The 0-16 season is directly on Millen. And so are all those bad draft picks, and one bad season after another.

But this goes beyond just the record and his ineptitude as a football executive. It's about Millen, the person, and the way he has conducted himself. There was the interview with Sports Illustrated upon his return to broadcasting when he insulted this state further by saying: "I understand. In Detroit, they need a bad guy. I was a bad guy. I was to blame for the fall of the auto industry and the housing market. Somehow, I had something to do with Kwame Kilpatrick, although I'm not sure what. But that's what happens when you lose in this game. You give everyone a cheap and easy story to jump on.'' It wasn't a cheap and easy story. It was a long and painful journey. Eight years in football's version of Hades. Millen would have been just as vilified if the economy was going great guns and Kwame the male version of Mother Teresa. He has no credibility in this state. None.

Now this state's moved on, ever-so-slowly pulling itself out of the hole. Millen has moved on, too. Good for him. Have him do the biggest MSU-Michigan game in a decade, forcing millions of people in this state to listen what they only know too well is utter pablum. You know who should try to do something about this? Channel 7. They are starting their happy, giddy "We've got the big game" talk this week on their newscasts. Well, what about this issue? Going to cover it? It's news. A lot of chatter about it on Twitter, that's for sure. Oh, and what about how your listeners are so important to you, and how much you care about them? Do you care enough to stand up to the insensitive flack at your network for doing this to "your people?"

Perhaps the higher ups at ESPN thought... how can we get MSU and UofM fans to see past their differences and unite on something at the very moment their teams play and passions are at there highest?

[nhwbrooklyn]

I love me some Brando. No one screams homer broadcaster like Brando doing Michigan games.

I have no problem with dudes enjoying football calling games!

I just want 'brando' to say "Where did he go George?" one time for me. That man has a cartoon voice.

[mason reese]

I'll be disappointed if there isn't a sea of "Fire Millen" signs at the game.

[froot loops]

I love me some Brando. No one screams homer broadcaster like Brando doing Michigan games.

I have no problem with dudes enjoying football calling games!

I don't like listening to Brando calling a Michigan game, too much complaining about the refs. But he's not my issue, I can't stand listening to Beckmann.

Homers are all right, certainly Blaha is a homer. I wish Blaha would give a score coming out of a break. He can go 10 minutes without giving a score and you unconsciously start rooting for someone to score just so he will tell you what it is.

[nhwbrooklyn]

If you ever get a chance, watch a boston based feed of a celtics game... there is nobody in the broadcasting business that is more of a homer than Tom Heinsohn. You might have heard of him as the guy who gives out "tommy points". It's obnoxious but thats how horrible Boston fans like their sports fed to them.

[gibby]

How 'bout this. No "Fire Millen" chants, no sound turned off. Just take note of all of the advertisers and send each of them an e mail, saying due to ABC's insensitivity in putting Matt Millen on the Michigan-Michigan State broadcast, I'm less inclined to buy your products.

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[Mainevent]

If you ever get a chance, watch a boston based feed of a celtics game... there is nobody in the broadcasting business that is more of a homer than Tom Heinsohn. You might have heard of him as the guy who gives out "tommy points". It's obnoxious but thats how horrible Boston fans like their sports fed to them.

That's nothing. He was almost as bad of a homer when he was calling nationally televised NBA games for CBS back in the 80s.

I've grown really dislike Blaha as an announcer on the radio. He's always so far behind the action, in both football and basketball, it's really annoying. Even on Pistons' TV games he's annoyed me to the point that I'd rather get the other team's feed most nights.