At One Click Sports News, we try to provide Duck sports news in ‘one click’. Unfortunately, that’s not the case all of the time. In this particular instance, we could have linked (or not linked) to this site on our main page without any comment. But we just could not do that. And after watching the video and reading the comments, we think you’ll agree.
So, if you did not get to see the end of the OSN broadcast of the Oregon-Arizona football game, take a look at it here and read the comments (”Oregon’s Commentators Don’t Seem To Understand College Football”).
I had family at the Arizona game. And I’ll tell you this: they are never going to a game at Arizona again. The facilities are terrible, and the fans are worse.
Did anyone else have a less than enjoyable experience at the Arizona game?
JJ
Tags: Awful Announcing, Dennis Dixon, Ducks, Football, University of Arizona, University of Oregon
Avinash Says:
November 19th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
You rushed the field when you beat USC. When you were favored. At least Arizona got the concept right, terrible fans you might think they are.
J.R. Hippe Says:
November 19th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Northwest sports “fans” are the worst. Eat it, Oregon. You choked.
Joe Smith Says:
November 19th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Hey J.R. Hippe,
Choking had nothing do with it. If you didn’t notice the most dynamic player in college football had a knee injury. Why don’t you go blog someplace else where you actually know what you are talking about. For instance a proctology website….because you obviously have your head up your @ss!
Daisy Says:
November 19th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
I know I won’t go back. Listening to fans cheer when they discovered Dixon was injured, the pep band playing from the boxes down at the Duck section, the bathroom with one sink so you had to stand in line to wash your hands, made me realize Arizona fans and their coach are a perfect match.
Awful Announcing Says:
November 19th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
While I appreciate the link and the debate that’s about to come……it’s college football people. Fans are insane. Oregon rushed the field in both the USC and ASU game. I’m sure not many of the AU fans knew the extent of Dixon’s injury (like all of us) and were just giving him the business.
He didn’t seem very “heckled” when he stopped to talk to Erin Andrews right next to the stands at the end of the video.
jtlight Says:
November 19th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
AA,
I posted on your site as well, but one note. It’s NEVER OK to cheer for someone getting injured. Now, that seems to be what rubbed the Oregon fans the wrong way, but from what I heard, it’s not like that were at OSU or something. Heckling is pretty tame. Beer bottles and physical assaults are another (haven’t heard stories of this yet).
OSN embarrassed duck fans for the complete lack of journalism they showed. There was nothing dangerous on the field, and Dixon wasn’t being heckled to a great degree.
If they did, fine. But that’s classess morons, not a dangerous situation. We can talk about this and the lack of AU facilities all we want, but OSN was a joke with how they handled the end of the game.
jtlight
Ian Says:
November 19th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
I was at the game. Horrible seats for the visiting team. I think I could see my house in Phoenix from Tucson.
In the stadium, they showed no replays of the plays I was interested in (block in the back, fake punt fumble, etc). Just a bunch of floating A’s on their jumbo-tron. Oh, but they had plenty of replays for the missed call on the face mask by Nick Reed.
We ran into a few OK U of A fans, but most were pretty rude and classless. Makes me think UofA stands for university of A**holes.
I’m a big duck fan, but I’ll watch the game on TV rather than going south again, even if it is only a 2 hour drive.
Bryan Says:
November 20th, 2007 at 1:26 am
I was at the game and most of the UA fans around me were fine. They were sorry about DD and most apologized and realized that they were given a huge break when he went down.
That said, it was disappointing to hear the crowd cheer when Dixon went down and didn’t get back up. Cheering for an injury is not ok.
Additionally, the students rushing the field wasn’t the problem, it was that they left their seats and crowded the sideline with almost 4 minutes left. They were throwing things on the field and pushed right up to the sideline.
Credit to them that nothing major happened, but they shouldn’t have been down there before the end of the game.
Yes, UO students rushed the field twice this season, but both times it was at the end of the game, and didn’t interfere with the end of the game. The same can’t be said for UA during the UO game.
Mookie Says:
November 20th, 2007 at 8:34 am
There is a difference between the 500 fans that possibly taunted Dixon, than the other 50000 that were not. Admit it, you guys blew it, don’t blame Dixon’s injury on the loss completely. Brady Leaf is a pathetic back up, your special teams nailed you, as well as your awful defensive play.
Samurhino Says:
November 20th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Was that the same defense that held Arizona to 3 points in the second half and 20 points overall? Yeah that’s an awful defense. Or maybe you meant he defense that stopped Arizona 9 straight times. The Ducks were stunned at Dixon going down for one quarter…had Dixon not gone down the Ducks would’ve beat Arizona by 30. I would be very interested to see how the Wildcats would do without four of their top six offensive playmakers, two of their starting linebackers and playing a backup QB with an ankle injury. I hope the Ducks put 70 on Arizona next season. Stoops and his coaching staff are a bunch of temper tantrum prone five year olds. It’s extremely sad when the student athletes have to try to physically restrain the coaches from fighting. Ridiculous. Just thank you lucky stars for all the Duck injuries and a bunch of lucky bounces. I guess it is better to be lucky than good.
Time4OregonFootball Says:
November 20th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Ok, I’ll give Arizona some credit for playing a tough game. But we did lose our star quarterback, and you can’t deny the importance of this key position. Without an effective general, battles are lost. Give me a break. The leading Heisman Trophy candidate in the country goes down, and you say “don’t blame losing Dixon” for Oregon’s defeat? Also, has anyone brought up the pathetic officiating? What is it with Pac 10 officials anyway? If any one of those bad calls had gone against Stoops, the man would have died of a coronary on the spot–which is usually standing 10 to 15 yards out on the field of play. Someone put a leash on that dude.
Sid Wicks Says:
November 22nd, 2007 at 6:41 pm
I was not there, but friends reported the cheering for the Dixon injury.
Was anyone at the UOAA pre-game tent? I heard the ASU band stopped by to play the fight song. Once would have been fine - but over an hour?
Not cool.
Lastly Mook, I know you and your boys are trying to salvage something of a season, otherwise you are never here.
I will repeat myself just for you, sweetheart.
Imagine if you will, USC a few years back w/o Williams, Smith, White, Leinart, and Bush.
That’s just on offense.
Kind of mirrors the Ducks right now.
Would you say USC “choked” if they didn’t have those guys?
Stick to basketball. Perhaps you know something about that.
Sid Wicks Says:
November 22nd, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Sorry AZ band