Nice Job ESPN!

[whatfun]

I was watching the Xavier/Temple game tonight and the announcers were talking about the longest active winning streaks amongst Div. I teams. ESPN then showed a graphic listing the different teams in order of consecutive wins.

In the middle of the list with 11 straight wins was "Northern Illinois."

I emailed ESPN to tell them about this "mistake" but also to tell them that there is really no excuse for such mistakes - except outright laziness and ignorance.

Below is a link to the ESPN website to complain - I think they need to hear from people, just to let them know we are paying attention. I encouarge everyone to submit a complaint.

http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/contact

[morrism0]

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I sent in a complaint, unfortunately I was limited to 500 characters!

[TravelingPanther]

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sent

kaboom

[Deke3]

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done .

[4N6]

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Done. I saw the broadcast too. Thought I was going to soil myself. Hard to believe they can't get this right.

[06panther10]

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What a bunch of crap. Honestly, this is getting rediculous. I never really cared much about this because I know people make honest mistakes sometimes, but geeze, they have done this to us about 20 times this year.

Its one thing to say NIU instead of UNI, but when you continually get the freaking state wrong, you need to be beaten down.

I bet the Huskies were pleased to see the broadcast tonight and find out that they had a good basketball team.

[JayJ79]

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I would hope that the university (athletic dept. or whatever) makes a formal complaint on this recurring problem. To both ESPN, and the NCAA itself.

[clenz]

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They got a very "nicely" worded letter from me....

[9YRPLAN]

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i see NIU far more than I see UNI when we have random TV games

Tony Gonzalez, who has played his entire career in KC, thought Kirk Ferentz was the coach at iowa state

announcers continually referred to drake as "the drake" last year

most of the country thinks we grow potatoes

face it, no one else cares about the state of iowa

[JayJ79]

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announcers continually referred to drake as "the drake" last year

next thing you know, there will be someone like Citdog who will INSIST on the "the"

[06panther10]

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People called them "the Drake" because it is a reference to a Sienfeld episode, not becuase they are ignorant.

[clenz]

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next thing you know, there will be someone like Citdog who will INSIST on the "the"

It's THE Citdog, of The Citadel...aka one of THE worst FCS football teams in THE country

[9YRPLAN]

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People called them "the Drake" because it is a reference to a Sienfeld episode, not becuase they are ignorant.

ESPN...yes. every other station...no.

[Snagglepuss]

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Boy, Siena really did get screwed. They could have been matched up with Northern Illinois but instead they're stuck playing Northern Iowa.

[SteinPizza]

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Boy, Siena really did get screwed. They could have been matched up with Northern Illinois but instead they're stuck playing Northern Iowa.

Sienna is screwed either way. Pick your poison; getting picked apart through the air by Kurt Warner (UNI), or getting run over by Michael "The Burner" Turner (NIU).