[CBFF] Greg Olsen - 7th Floor Crew Song

Tue May 1 18:26:07 MDT 2007

If you want to listen to the Greg Olsen song entitled "7th Floor Crew"

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Madsen" <jerrywm at gmail.com>
To: <post at chicagobearsfanforum.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: [CBFF] Draft Coverage (why NFLN is better)


>I gave the ESPN coverage about 3 minutes.  When I heard Keyshawn
> describe Calvin Johnson as "a cross between Randy Moss and me", I
> tuned the egocentric SOB off.
>
> Thank you NFLN!
>
> I think it was Tom who asked me what I liked about the NFLN's
> coverage.  In order, it would be these things:
>
> 1 - Rich Eisen beats outs Chris Berman and Suzy Kolber as a host every
> day of the week and twice on Sundays.
>
> 2 - Adam Schefter used to strike me as a smarmy little twerp, but then
> I started to listen to what he had to say and you know what?  He's
> right most of the time.  He scooped Chris Mortensen on the Randy Moss
> trade AND he predicted Troy Smith would go to the Ravens about an hour
> before he was drafted.
>
> 3 - I'll take Mike Mayock over Mel Kiper, but only because he's a
> change-of-pace and his hair isn't so big it makes me want to save it.
> Otherwise, the two are interchangeable.
>
> 4 - When the NFLN breaks-down a recently drafted player, they not only
> include college highlights, but they also breakdown their combine
> footage, which (unless I'm mistaken) they have exclusive rights to.
>
> 5 - Lastly, NFLN actually has cams inside certain war rooms.  It was
> really neat to see the clip from inside the Ravens war room as they
> were making their first pick.
>
> There ya have it.
>
> Jerry
>
> On 4/30/07, Nat Mara <azbearfan34 at cox.net> wrote:
>> No doubt the coverage had way too many people.  I thought Keyshawn was 
>> about
>> what I expected, opinionated  and he got on my nerves.  Tony Kornheiser 
>> will
>> always get on my nerves.  The Brady saga was over the top and I believe 
>> next
>> year I will watch it on NFLN instead.
>>
>> Nat
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cbff-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com
>> [mailto:cbff-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com] On Behalf Of mactbone
>> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:59 AM
>> To: post at chicagobearsfanforum.com
>> Subject: Re: [CBFF] Draft Coverage
>>
>> To be fair, I've heard stories about most of the ESPN guys... Salisbury 
>> is a
>> horrible speaker though and shouldn't be on the air.
>>
>> I didn't like Keyshawn. There were way too many people for ESPN at the
>> draft. Tony Kornheiser still sounded like a moron. I was hoping he 
>> wouldn't
>> act so dumb about a sport that he's covered for years, but I guess ESPN
>> really wants to bring the casual fan to such an exciting event like the
>> Draft - and all they need is for someone to ask the dumb questions. ESPN
>> should've admitted that the draft is definitely for a niche audience and
>> there's no reason to dumb down anything.
>>
>> I wish I could see NFLN's coverage since I've heard nothing but good 
>> things.
>> -Chris
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Kenny Claxton <kenny.claxton at gmail.com>
>> To: post at chicagobearsfanforum.com
>> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 12:59:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: [CBFF] Draft Coverage
>>
>>
>> I did catch some of Keyshawn Johnson's work and he was very good. He may
>> wind up doing this after he hangs them up. Salisbury at least was fired 
>> by
>> Espn-am 1000 and not a moment too soo. He was an awful qb, an awful 
>> analyst
>> and apparently a perv according to reports.
>>
>> On 4/30/07, Tom Shannon <tshanno at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: cbff-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com [mailto:cbff-
>> > > bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Madsen
>> > > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 8:48 AM
>> > > To: CBFF
>> > > Subject: Re: [CBFF] Draft Coverage
>> > >
>> > > Let me say it again, in the same way the Sun-Times sports coverage
>> > > outshines the Tribune's, the NFL Network's Draft coverage outdid
>> > > ESPN's.  I have so little use for the eastern sports programming
>> > > network these days.
>> >
>> > Jerry,
>> >
>> > I don't get the NFL Network.  But I didn't think ESPN did a bad job.
>> > Their main team of Kiper, Mortenson and Berman covered things from a
>> > lot of angles.  Keshawn Johnson was surprisingly good.  In fact, there
>> > were several instances when I think he irritated Kiper because, when
>> > he disagreed with him, he did it for very well-defined, logical
>> > reasons.  Michael Smith surprised me as well.  He really had a good
>> > grasp on what each organization was thinking in the first round.
>> >
>> > But the guy I really loved was Jaworski.  They let him show film of
>> > some of the prospects where he could specifically show strengths and
>> > weaknesses in the breakdown.  I can never get enough of that stuff.
>> >
>> > The second day was the best when most of the time was spent listening
>> > to Jaworski, Mortenson, Kiper and Suzy Kolber talk about various NFL
>> > related issues and the state of the league in general.  All of the
>> > prospects were minor but the conversation was great.  They did it
>> > without a lot of the loud yelling that seems to characterize the
>> > programming during the week.  I was glued to my TV and I consider it
>> > to be a day well spent.
>> >
>> > The only two drawbacks were Steve Young and Sean Salisbury.  Young
>> > came across as too loud and obnoxious.  Salisbury was... well...
>> Salisbury.
>> >
>> > What was it that you specifically didn't like?
>> >
>> > Tom S.
>> >
>> > "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
>> > --George Orwell
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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