Marshall alums vote early and often for their fave
I did some journalistic snooping while visiting the Tribeca Film Festival (see post below) and discovered how and why "We Are Marshall" won the vote for favorite football flick - thus earning the right to be shown at the "drive-in" Saturday at the World Financial Center.
Turns out a site frequented by Marshall alumni caught wind of the contest and mounted a vast Internet conspiracy to vote early and often. Hence some of the nutty results, including a 93-7 blowout of "Rudy" in the final.
Too bad Notre Dame doesn't have an active alumni community.
(I'm old school, of course. I would have voted for "Brian's Song.")
I know it's a busy sports weekend, but I won't be blogging. I think the wife and kids have started to notice that I've been ignoring them.
See you Monday. Enjoy college boxing on SNY at 4:30 p.m. Wait . . . college boxing?
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Neil,
Russo and Francessa covering the first round was cringe-worthy at best. They knew very little about some of the players and cited Joe Schmo callers as their sources on whether these picks are good. Also technical difficulties that threw them off a draft pick, forgot to acknowledge draft picks, didn't say the name of the Texans draft pick, and off-topic several times.
Dude,
I'm glad you listened so I didn't have to.
Driving down the NJ Turnpike and knowing only two AM stations was my real problem. Before I lost all reception of 1050, I though Colin Cowherd and John Clayton did a solid job. Both are very knowledgeable in the College Football/NFL realm of things. Their snide comments and quick wit made it actually enjoyable rather than cringe-worthy. It helped that the entire first round was a complete rapid fire segment.
More often than not, I've found that ND alums like myself aren't so big on Rudy.