{"id":110,"date":"2007-11-03T16:59:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2012-05-11T03:24:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:24:21","slug":"the-u-on-espn-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"The U on ESPN U"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(I&#8217;m not going to go into the actual details of today&#8217;s game.  It&#8217;s just not pleasant.)<br \/>\nFor what I think was the third time this season, UM&#8217;s game was on ESPNU today.  Thankfully, the place where we watch our games gets ESPNU now.  One thing struck me during the broadcast, compared to other televised football games &#8212; the commercials suck.  Normally, you see a lot of car commercials, and other ads targeted at the largely-male football-watching audience.  This game was loaded with a lot of two-minute, &#8220;infomercial-style&#8221; ads.  One we saw twice was for Proactiv &#8212; an anti-acne skin care system, pitched by Jennifer Love Hewitt.  We also saw one for the DR Wood Splitter (or something like that) twice.  Saw a Bose commercial a few times.  I can&#8217;t remember the others, but you get my drift.  They aren&#8217;t doing a very good job of selling ad time for these games.  There was one upside to this &#8212; the game moved a little more quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I&#8217;m not going to go into the actual details of today&#8217;s game. It&#8217;s just not pleasant.) For what I think was the third time this season, UM&#8217;s game was on ESPNU today. Thankfully, the place where we watch our games gets ESPNU now. One thing struck me during the broadcast, compared to other televised football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,17,33],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-football","tag-miami","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}