Pam Ward triumphantly returns for this week's Pammies with a couple gems in this week's nominees.  Elsewhere, ESPN managed to pick up 14 of our 16 nominees this week featuring Craig James and Matt Millen in their starring roles and a couple new faces getting in on the fun.  Also, it's a historic week for the Pammies as the one and only Gus Johnson makes his first appearance!  You'll have to see it to believe how he makes the field this week...

As a reminder as to how the Pammy vote works, each week we'll nominate 15-20 quotes for you to pick the best 10.  The winning quote of the week will earn that person 10 points all the way down to 1 point for 10th.  Remember, you can vote for your favorite five quotes.  Here are your Week 5 nominees...

1) "Texas is the hungrier team. they're playing with fire in their hair." - Craig James (via bjo109)

2) "Unless you know somethin', don't say nothin'" - Lee Corso (via sctvman)

3) "You know I'm a smoke man" - Brent Musburger (via jleimer) obivously referring to him betting sports.

4) "You can watch Texas practice live on Tuesday & Wednesday, on the Longhorn Network." - Kirk Herbstreit (via SEC_wrld)

5) "Harris, steps into it, almost incomplete." - Mike Patrick (via SBisho12) The pass was incomplete. It was nearly intercepted.

6) "Pittsburgh starting to pick up some chunky gains" - Pam Ward (via sctvman)

7) "When they are in the wildcat, you can bet on them either running or throwing" - Brent Musburger (via jshaddo)

8) "I don't wanna say that snap was way inside, but even Ryan Howard would've swung at it" - Gary Danielson (via AlexFromBuffalo)

9) "Ray Graham running away from would-be defenders" - Pam Ward (via patdoc38)

10) "LSU is hammering LSU" - Scott Van Pelt (via Michael Necci)

11) "This is why Lamar miller averages eight and a half carries per touch." - Craig James (via DWW_1992)

12) "The son of the great CRAIG JAMES from SMU with the score" - Gus Johnson (via ConnorKeisel).  There's a hole in the world tonight...

13) "If Tyler Bray were any more laid back, he couldn't see over his hips." - Mark Jones (via CaptTouchback)

14) "You cant make that play in the Big Red Shootout." - Lou Holtz (via David Reeves) commenting on OU/Texas highlights.

15) "You have to read the play, then you have to play football" - Matt Millen (via crippenstation)

16) "Plenty of time and four timeouts" - Mike Patrick (via MrIronD) late in the Miami/VT game when Virginia Tech was driving for the go-ahead TD.

Vote For Your Week 6 Pammy Nominees! (vote for up to five)

The winners will come Wednesday morning so make sure you vote early and often and check back for the full Week 7 announcing sked later this week!

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The early reviews are in and mostly positive on Gus Johnson's new role calling college football games on FX. Pitted against the likes of ABC, CBS, ESPN, ESPN2, and the MLB playoffs though, the majority of college football fans have yet to experience one of the loudest announcers coupled with the most naturally loud sport. 

I found myself drawn to FX as the Aggies and Red Raiders provided a bevvy of big plays and scoring despite having rooting interests watching other games. While I didn't get to watch a lot of the action, I felt lucky to have been able to this catch during a commercial in another game. Take it away Gus:

I think if you're a college football fan, the bottom line is that you don't have to fear Fox and FX's foray into college football as you did during the dreaded BCS on Fox experiment. With Fox broadcasting two conference championships and the Cotton Bowl, it will be interesting to see if Johnson can finish out his rookie year on a high note with the potential of drawing some very big games. 

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American League Championship Series - Detroit Tigers vs Texas Rangers 
FOX- Joe Buck, Terry Francona (Game 1 & 2), Tim McCarver (Games 3-7), Ken Rosenthal

National League Championship Series - Milwaukee Brewers vs. St. Louis Cardinals
TBS - Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, John Smoltz, Craig Sager

Saturday, October 8th

ALCS Game 1, Detroit Tigers @ Texas Rangers (FOX 7:30/8:05 pm)

Sunday, October 9th

NLCS Game 1, St. Louis Cardinals @ Milwaukee Brewers (TBS 3:30/4:05 pm)
ALCS Game 2, Detroit Tigers @ Texas Rangers (FOX 7:00/7:45 pm)

Monday, October 10

NLCS Game 2, St. Louis Cardinals @ Milwaukee Brewers (TBS 7:30/8:05 pm)

Tuesday, October 11

ALCS Game 3, Texas Rangers @ Detroit Tigers (FOX 7:30/8:05 pm)

Wednesday, October 12

ALCS Game 4, Texas Rangers @ Detroit Tigers (FOX 4:00/4:19 pm)
NLCS Game 3, Milwaukee Brewers @ St. Louis Cardinals (TBS 7:30/8:05 pm)

Thursday, October 13

ALCS Game 5*, Texas Rangers @ Detroit Tigers (FOX 4:00/4:19 pm)
NLCS Game 4, Milwaukee Brewers @ St. Louis Cardinals (TBS 7:30/8:05 pm) * - If Necessary

Friday, October 14

NLCS Game 5*, Milwaukee Brewers @ St. Louis Cardinals (TBS 7:30/8:05 pm) * - If Necessary

Saturday, October 15

ALCS Game 6*, Detroit Tigers @ Texas Rangers (FOX 7:30/8:05 pm) * - If Necessary

Sunday, October 16

NLCS Game 6*, St. Louis Cardinals @ Milwaukee Brewers (TBS 3:30/4:05 pm)* - If Necessary
ALCS Game 7*, Detroit Tigers @ Texas Rangers (FOX 7:45/8:05 pm) * - If Necessary, ^ If ALCS ends, TBS 7:30/8:05

Monday, October 17

NLCS Game 7*, St. Louis Cardinals @ Milwaukee Brewers (TBS 7:30/8:05 pm) * - If Necessary

When I think of Bob Uecker, I think of Harry Doyle. When Brewers (and most baseball) fans think of Bob Uecker, they think one of baseball's best announcers. They're not wrong -- he's brilliant -- but 'Major League' introduced me to Uecker and, thus, to me he'll forever be the guy who once inquired, "That's all we got? One goddamn hit?"

But in real life he's always been a legendary announcer for the Brewers (and WWF and Miller Lite commercials) and thanks to The Outside Corner, we have his awesome call of Nyjer Morgan's one goddamn game-winning hit that propelled the Brewers into the NLCS (no Nyjer Morgan f-bombs included, unfortunately): 

Of course, it doesn't take a degree in journalism to see the conflict of interest between ESPN's role in college football and their sizeable financial backing of the Longhorn Network.  Heck, it makes Craig James look like a beacon of virtue (oh hey Poynter, we're still waiting for that Craig James article by the way).  We've covered the news exaustively at AA in the offseason, but now that the college football season has started, we've seen how ESPN has decided to delicately dance around the 10,000 pound elephant in the room.  

First, there was the mysterious appearance of Texas on ESPN's website amongst other top 25 teams when the team wasn't ranked.  Now today, during the Red River Rivalry game, fans saw the definition of a shameless plug from stalwarts Brent Musberger and Kirk Herbstreit.  Naturally, amongst all the talk of how important it was for people in Texas to call their cable operator, there was no mention of ESPN's involvement in the network.  But hey, you get to watch LIVE TEXAS PRACTICES!!  I guess mentioning the force and money behind the Longhorn Network would actually involve transparency and journalistic integrity and all of those silly things ESPN clearly doesn't believe in any more. 

[Video H/T SportsGrid]

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There's a new leader at the top of the Pammies standings for the first time this season.  Your friend and mine Craig James has replaced Pam Ward at the top of the standings with Gary Danielson and Matt Millen close behind.  A lot of great games all throughout the day starts with the Red River Rivalry and ends with Ohio State/Nebraska on ABC.  Oh, wait, that Ohio State game is going to be terrible... and Millen's announcing?  God, it's going to be a long night in Columbus.  Leave us with all the best and most awful quotes you hear throughout this football Saturday and we'll put it to a vote on Monday.

"If Oregon wants to win, they can't take advantage of mistakes." - Craig James (via bjo109)

"Since transferring from Buffalo, Maynard plays in much louder stadiums." - Jesse Palmer (via bjo109) Ya think? 

"Friday nights have a tradition: there's always a one point last second drive." - Jesse Palmer (via bjo109) loves those one point drives.

The Brewers just defeated the Diamondbacks in extras to win their first postseason series since 1982. It was the boisterious Nyjer Morgan who delivered a single into centerfield that scored Carlos Gomez for the walk-off win. TBS' Sam Ryan was in the middle of interviewing Ryan Braun until a dancing Morgan interrupted their interview. Ryan then ditched Braun, and attempted to interview Morgan instead. For those of you who get their jollies from unedited swearing on the air, you'll enjoy this short but sweet interview with Morgan.

For good measure, Morgan even throws in a Ric Flair "WOOOOO" in there as well.

The local radio calls almost always trump the national calls in enthusiasm, and that certainly was the case last night in the finale of the Tigers/Yankees series. In the above clip, that's 97.1 The Ticket in Detroit's Dan Dickerson on the call. Not unexpectedly, his offering is in contrast to the almost melancholy offering we were treated to by the TBS crew. To cement my nerdom in the annals of the internet, I'll throw out that my ringtone on my phone is the Dan Dickerson call of the Magglio Ordonez walk-off HR that sent the Tigers to the World Series in 2006. For 5 years that's been my ringtone, and for 5 years I've ignored my friends and allowed it to play through and go to voicemail.

The series-clinching strikeout capped off a memorable game five full of clutch pitching and insane drama. Personally, I spent much of the game writhing on the floor of my apartment as Tigers pitchers maneuvered around the Yankees 200 million dollar roster. As someone who always takes delight in Yankee schadenfreude, I'm sad that so far I have not been able to locate the John Sterling call.

In the always appropriate and necessary ALDS lockerroom celebration, Victor Martinez poured NON-alcoholic champagne on his seven-year-old son. (video via SB Nation Detroit)

Then, Tom Verducci was doused as he attempted to interview Jose Valverde.

Two more Game 5's today on TBS as Arizona/Milwaukee (5:07 PM) and St. Louis/Philadelphia (8:37 PM) compete to see which fanbases will have to continue to endure that constant "Written in the Stars" song for another series.

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Updates to follow...

Friday, October 7

6 Boise State @ Fresno State (9PM ESPN) Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore

Saturday. October 8

1 Oklahoma v. 10 Texas (Noon ABC) Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Erin Andrews - Cotton Bowl, Dallas

Minnesota @ Purdue (Noon ESPN) Beth Mowins, Mike Bellotti

Louisville @ North Carolina (Noon ESPN2) Bob Wischusen, Bob Davie

Maryland @ 13 Georgia Tech (Noon ESPNU) Rob Stone, Danny Kanell

Mississippi State @ UAB (Noon FSN) Ron Thulin, J.C. Pearson, Jeremy Bloom

Kentucky @ 14 South Carolina (Noon SEC Net) Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano

Connecticut @ 16 West Virginia (Noon Big East Net) Mike Gleason, John Congemi, Eamon McAnaney

22 Florida State @ Wake Forest (12:30 ACC Net) Steve Martin, Dave Archer, Scott Pryzwansky

Army @ Miami-OH (1PM ONN) Tim Bray, Gino DiGiandomenico

Boston College @ 8 Clemson (3PM ACC Net) Rich Waltz, Keith Jones, Jenn Hildreth

Illinois @ Indiana (2:30 BTN) Eric Collins, Chris Martin

18 Florida @ 2 Louisiana State (3:30 CBS) Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson

Air Force @ Notre Dame (3:30 NBC) Tom Hammond, Mike Mayock, Alex Flanagan

Miami @ 17 Virginia Tech (3:30 ABC/ESPN) Mike Patrick, Craig James

Iowa @ Penn State (3:30 ABC/ESPN) Dave Pasch, Urban Meyer, Chris Spielman, Quint Kessenich

Missouri @ 20 Kansas State (3:30 ABC/ESPN3) Carter Blackburn, Brock Huard

Pittsburgh @ Rutgers (3:30 ESPNU) Pam Ward, Dan Hawkins

Arizona @ Oregon State (3:30 FOX College Sports) Steve Physioc, Yogi Roth, Desmond Purnell

Arizona State @ Utah (3:30 FSN) Craig Bolerjack, Joel Klatt, Petros Papadakis

Central Michigan at NC State (3:30 ESPN3) Dave Weekley, Rene Ingoglia

South Alabama at Texas-San Antonio (5:30 Longhorn Network) Andrew Monaco, Ahmad Brooks

15 Auburn at 10 Arkansas (7:00 ESPN) Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge & Holly Rowe

Georgia @ Tennessee (7PM ESPN2) Mark Jones, Ed Cunningham

Vanderbilt at No. 2 Alabama (7:00 ESPNU) Clay Matvick, Brian Griese, Allison Williams

25 Texas A&M @ Texas Tech (7PM FX) Gus Johnson, Charles Davis, Tim Brewster

East Carolina @ Houston (7PM CBS Sports Net) Dave Ryan, Rich Rodriguez

Marshall @ Central Florida (7PM Bright House) Dave Baumann, Mark Royals

Colorado @ 4 Stanford (7:30 VS) Ted Robinson, Glenn Parker, Akbar Gbaja-Biamilla

Ohio State at No. 14 Nebraska (8:00 ABC) Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Heather Cox

Syracuse @ Tulane (8PM CST) Sean Kelley, Deuce McAllister, Eric Richey

San Jose State @ Brigham Young (10:15 ESPNU) Adam Amin, David Diaz-Infante

Texas Christian @ San Diego State (10:30 CBS Sports Net) James Bates, Aaron Taylor, Brooke Collins

UCLA @ Washington State (10:30 FSN) Joel Meyers, Brian Baldinger

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Ron Jaworski might have started something after all.  Check out this sports report from Erin Hawksworth on Seahawks Gameday from the Seattle Fox station.  She's obviously very excited about the great mood Seahawks fans are in, maybe a little too excited.  Nothing like seeing a polished TV reporter just plow through dropping an F-bomb like it didn't even happen.  Beast mode.

[h/t Hot Clicks]

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