re: ESPN and the destruction of their product

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The whole game of the century crap pisses me off. This was just another game for us, but they hype the piss out of it to make money. frick espn.

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I thought the "game of the century" stuff felt like they were just trying to hype it up, but it probably was the game of the century. With the story lines that are still there - Saban, LSU's old god, vs. Miles, LSU's new god, Bama vs. LSU, #1 vs. #2 from the SEC which has dominated the last five BCS Championships at 7 pm on CBS - it definitely felt like a national championship game with Super Bowl hype.

You still have to win the rest of your games (and the ones before this one were important), but it wasn't just another game for us. Not even close... And you can try to blame ESPN (who didn't even broadcast it), but The Advocate had something like "Biggest Game Ever" on their paper. So the media in general was majorly caught up in the hype. It was an exciting game.