Last night ESPN tipped off the college basketball season with a marathon of games starting at 9 o clock, pacific time when Memphis played UMass. They then showed St Marys playing Fresno State at 11:30 pm and the Hawaii game at some ungodly hour of the morning. The ESPN announcers didn’t hesitate to make jokes about how late it was, how they were “burning the midnight oil”, and how they were having to prop their eyelids open throughout most, if not all, of the broadcasts. Well, the joke’s on you, ESPN! During the St Marys game they displayed a graphic of last years West Coast Conference standings and, instead of displaying the University of San Diego Toreros’ logo next to their name, put the San Diego State Aztecs logo. Whoops.
To the production assistants who might be reading this and are caught being lazy once and a while, here’s some help. You might be asking yourself “Wow, how did he get that?” Simple. I went to google, typed in “USD Toreros logo,” and achieved success. And you can do it too!
I’ll hold my tongue on the San Diego State Athletics blasts because there are readers and even contributors to this website who might slit my throat if I say negative (but true) things about their team. Lets just say it’s a little bit wrong to mix up a team that missed the tournament with a team that beat UConn in the first round of the dance in what is shaping up to be the moment of the sports year in San Diego (professional teams included). But it’s okay because USD’s beast in the middle, Gyno Pomare, reminds me a lot of Darryl from The Office. And to ESPN, a word of advice. Before you fire off more “midnight oil” jokes, make sure your production staff isn’t passed out at the controls.
