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Your 2010 Pam Ward Chronicles: Week 10

We're going to combine the voting for week 9 and 10 because of conflicts preventing the Pammy vote from happening last week. It'll be just as epic and nobody from Week 9 will get a free pass, so don't worry. Keep up the awesome contributions and we should have the voting up by Monday morning.
Here's your full week 10 announcing schedule. Leave anything you hear in the comments or you can tweet it to us.
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"A pass is a trick play for GT." -- Craig James (via Sctvman)
"Paul Johnson needs to understand field position." -- Craig James (via Sctvman)
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Your 2010 Week 9 Pam Ward Chronicles

Your full week 9 announcing schedule is here. I'll be missing most of the nooooon games, but will be around all day after that. And here we go.
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"A pick six is always worse than a punt." -- Dave Norrie via Sctvman
"It doesn't matter if you've got an inch, 3/4 or a half inch......... cleat that is." -- Craig James (via Sctvman)
"That mayday stuff, that nostradamic stuff." (about the clock being wrong on the stat) -- Craig James (via Sctvman)
"It was a great 4th quarter for North Carolina State" -- Rece Davis (at the end of the 3rd) (via Sctvman)
"Third and California for FSU." -- Jesse Palmer (via Sctvman)
"Danged if you do, danged if you don't." -- Craig James (via Stvman)
How many do we drink when Craig James says "big [time] play!" tonight?
no commentsYour 2010 Pam Ward Chronicles: Week 8

I'll be out of town Saturday, but you know the drill -- leave any and all awful announcing you hear in the comments. If you're not near a computer, you can tweet awful announcing using the hash tag #pwaa or sending it directly to us @awfulannouncing.
Here's your week 8 announcing schedule. Go.
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"It's Santa Claus. When it's released, it's, like, interesting." -- Craig James (via Sctvman)
"They don't care if it's the New York Giants, the San Francisco Giants or the Little Giants." - Jesse Palmer (via Sctvman)
LaMichael James being helped off the field is "a great sign for this offense" according to Jesse Palmer (via Sctvman)
no commentsYour 2010 Pam Ward Chronicles: Week 7

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"He was just a half-step from taking it to the paydirt." -- David Norrie (UCF-Marshall) (via Sctvman)
"Last year, Lattimore was the best college player except he was playing in high school" -- Trevor Matich (via Musburger's Flask)
"Tebow, he's thick. Here's Denard, [holds up pen]" -- Trevor Matich (via Musburger's Flask)
"Tonight from Morgantown." -- Beth Mowins In UCF/Marshall game (via jdhood)
"Go channel your inner Pirate" -- Mike Leach (via Bay Area Boogie)
"Do you realize there are only three main killers (colors with his impediment): red, green and yellow? But think of what Michaelangelo did with those killers." -- Lou Holtz as Mack Brown before the game (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"Jeff Mullens says he plays from the neck up." -- Jesse Palmer (via Sctvman)
"Coffman could've scored in touch football." -- Dave Lapham (via Sctvman)
"He is a 230 pound ballerina." -- Dave Lapham (via Sctvman)
"Most people like sandwiches with their Biere, don't they?" -- Dave Lapham after KU tight end Tim Biere gets smushed by a couple of KSU defenders (via Musburger's Flask)
"My quad and hammy hurt form that exercise." -- Craig James (via Sctvman)
no commentsYour 2010 Pam Ward Chronicles: Week 6

Week 6 is upon us. Here is your full announcing schedule for week 6 college football.
With MLB playoffs in full swing, NHL regular season and NBA preseason beginning, submissions have been slow for the Tuesday-Friday games, but leave the awful announcing you hear on Saturday in the comments. We'll update as the day progresses.
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"Helu ... goodbye!" -- Rece Davis after a Roy Helu TD
Brad Nessler said earlier that WVU won the Big East in 2006 after Rutgers beat Louisville. Nope, Louisville won league, went to Orange Bowl (per Sctvman)
Note from gtl6363 in the comments of the announcing schedule: Nessler is being inducted into the Minnesota Broadcasters Hall of Fame on Saturday night so ESPN allowed him and Joe Tessitore to switch spots in order to free up Nessler to attend the ceremony. They'll be back to their regular pairings next week.
Kirk Herbstreit picked Tech because he said, "Baylor has no chance in Lubbock." The game was in Dallas (via Sctvman)
"Taylor Martinez is to Nebraska what iPad is to Apple." -- Desmond Howard (via Sctvman)
Lee Corso picked Boise State to be the only team in the top 4 to finish the season undefeated. He then also said Nevada is the longshot team with the best chance to go undefeated. Boise State plays Nevada later this season. (via KabaModern)
"I think Auburn's gonna win this game, but they're going to have to outscore Kentucky." -- Kirk Herbstreit (via Sctvman)
"Illinois has got to be ahead of the chains." -- Brian Griese (via Sctvman)
"It hits at the 25 (really the 15) and takes a Syracuse bounce to the 20." -- Mike Gleason during a punt (via Sctvman)
"This guy is a bug; he runs all over the place." -- Doug Graber (via Sctvman)
"You win with your eyes as a quarterback." -- Andre Ware (via Sctvman)
"Tyrelle won't run, unless he decides to run." -- Chris Spielman (via Anon)
"This is a secondary that knows it's gonna have a chance to get its hands on a lot of ball." -- Chris Matin referring to Wisconsin's defense (via PDub)
"You can't go out and score 17 points in one possession or even in two." -- Andre Ware after UGA scored to make it 17-0 over TN. (via Aaron2hott)
"Speaking with the imprecision of Wisconsin's QB, Scott Tolzien." -- Chris Martin
"It's the competitiveness of Pryor that makes him not want to get tackled." -- Bob Griese (via Sctvman)
"The 919 area code is the one that engulfs Raleigh." -- Steve Martin (via Sctvman)
"He seems to throw better when he gets hit." -- Dave Pasch on Chappell (via Sctvman)
"Michigan State is back." -- Bob Griese (via Sctvman)
Andre Ware looking forward to two Big 12 teams like Nebraska in a Bowl game. (via Sctvman)
"Georgia looks like it has a pretty good chance to get its first SEC win" -- Andre Ware when UGA's up 41-14 (via Sctvman)
"That's hot." -- Dave Lapham when the camera was focused on a couple of attractive women (via The Pitty)
"That worm is going to turn and we're going to win a bunch of games." -- Dabo Swinney on Clemson radio (via Sctvman)
"It hit him in a bad spot... right in the hands." -- Matt Millen on Roundtree's drop in UM/MSU game.
"Great job by Rob Spence leading Syracuse's offense." -- John Congemi -- Rob Spence was fired last year. (via Kevin Brown)
"Somewhere on the sideline, Tracy is going 'oh no!'" -- Verne Lundquist talking about Tracy Wolfson, a UM alum as UM was losing to MSU, 31-10 (via JFein)
"I think it's time that all those big schools should jump above Boise and TCU. I'm talking about Auburn, Arizona, LSU, if they win tonight." -- Gary Danielson (via Eric Sorenson)
"I don't know if there is a better place for tailgating than Stanford." -- Craig James (via bspn)
"Boy, that was quick! Gutendberg's got a printing press near the locker room!" -- Verne Lundquist on newspapers reading "Gamecocks beat 'Bama!"
"I love Spurrier." -- Verne Lundquist (via Sctvman)
"This fan base is overwhelmingly South Carolina." -- Verne Lundquist on South Carolina game being played @ South Carolina (via Sctvman)
"Oh my goodness! Oh!" -- Verne Lundquist (via Sctvman)
"Alabama will not crack mentally." -- Gary Danielson in the 4th (via Sctvman)
"To move the ball down the field." -- Mike Leach on MSU's game plan. (via Sctvman)
"You don't need to manage the clock when you score in one play." -- Todd Blackledge (via Sctvman)
"The last ten minutes should be broadcasted on CourtTV, not ESPN." -- Joe Tessitore
"Les Miles looks like the mad science genius." -- Todd Blackledge
"He's athaletic." -- Lou Holtz (via Sctvman)
"LSU would be a good place to stand during a lightning storm." -- Mike Leach
"It's possible to overbelieve in this business." -- Mike Leach
"Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks." -- Mike Leach
"Those three guys were covering that receiver so they were unable to cover the other ones." -- Mike Leach (via Sctvman)
no commentsYour 2010 Pam Ward Chronicles: Week 5

Might be a good time to link this from Mocksessions.com
"Clemson wins it for the homecoming queen." -- Lee Corso (via Sctvman)
"To stop the DT, you have to chop his knees down." -- Chris Spielman (via Sctvman)
"Pat Fitzgerald's bald spot is going to look like mine." -- Bob Wischusen (via The Pitty)
"Michigan St. without its head coach because of a blood clot from his heart attack two years ago." -- John Saunders (via thethirdhalf)
"They've been banging on Rob Bolden's eardrums." - Mark Jones (via JFein)
Your 2010 Pam Ward Chronicles: Week 4

Your 2010 Pam Ward Chronicles: Week 3

ESPN College GameDay is in Auburn, AL for the Auburn/Clemson game and hopefully you're here for the Week 3 Pam Ward Chronicles.
Here is your full announcing schedule. Below are the few nominations we've had so far. Leave any derps in the comments and in due time you'll see them featured above.
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Jesse Palmer: If we look at NC State's true freshmen running backs, the one that has impressed me most is Mustafa Green...
Craig James: He puts his foot in the ground and moves it north.
Jesse Palmer: And he's good at running the football as well as catching it.
"That's not a Kerry Collins old wind up" -- Mark Neely (via Sctvman)
"Wilson... over the middle, oh-oh it's hanging up there and it's caught. And now it's fumbled!" -- Rece Davis, mostly so I could link this.
"He didn't throw the fastball outside." -- David Norrie (via Sctvman)
"The runningback looked like Sylverster Stallone in Cliffhanger." -- David Norrie (via Sctvman)
"Georgia's defense has to step up. They kept getting punched by South Carolina last week without throwing any counter punches." -- Chris Spielman
"I'm selfish, I wanna see the kid play. He has circus man freak skills & I don't get to see him." -- Chris Spielman on AJ Green
"So the defensive holding is on Thaddeux Brown, the quarterback." -- Mark Neely
"I think that a big conference team should have to lose two games before BC, no Boise State, gets a chance at the National Championship." -- Lee Corso (via Sctvman)
"Texas heads into Lubbock with 10, 12 straight Big 12 wins." -- Lee Corso (via Sctvman)
"There was a woodwind out there trying to make the team." -- Tom Hart on Michigan's open tryouts. (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"And of course we know the football is oblong." -- Anthony Herron (via Rob Rogacki)
"On 3rd and short, it's dealer's choice." -- Andre Ware (via Sctvman)
"That's a high-risk, low-reward throw." -- Brian Griese (via Sctvman)
"They almost got the quarterback sandwich, on special today." -- Chris Spielman (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"Hindsight is 20-20. Spike it to the ground." -- Dave Lapham after a QB run (via Sctvman)
"Jeremy Reeves buttoned him up." -- Bill Land (via Sctvman)
"Unbelievable injury situation for the Mean Green" -- Dave Ryan (via Sctvman)
"Each team with one play stoppage in this first half." -- Dave Ryan (via Sctvman)
"A little bit of out and up there." -- Andre Ware (via Sctvman)
"Georgia essentially will have to go the length of the field, as they start at their own 25." -- Dave Pasch (via Sctvman)
"6-foot-4, that's a lot of Hokie to throw over." -- Ryan Rose (via Sctvman)
"Every time I flip around, I turn it on and watch. It's a really good show." -- Bob Griese on SportsNation (via Sctvman)
"They're the real deal. You need offense to win championships." -- Chris Spielman (via Sctvman)
"Not a hurry-up, but kind of a half-hurry-up." Chris Spielman
"Locking up those horns, baby!" -- Dave Lapham (via Sctvman)
"Hold your water." -- Bob Griese (via Sctvman)
"So Massachusetts, missing the 2-point conversion is down 12 and needs three scores." -- Tom Hart (via Sparan Chris)
"If you're putting a guy in the bear hug, you got to call the flag." -- Chris Spielman (via Sctvman)
"Childs, please!" -- Dave Pasch after Greg Childs game winning touchdown for Arkansas (via Abe)
"All that shucking and driving led to the penalty." -- Ryan Rose (via Sctvman)
"He couldn't hold the water." -- John Gregory
"We can't speculate that his toe went down." -- Andre Ware (via Sctvman)
"They need their receivers to get going and Jermaine Thomas is going for 1500 rushing yards." -- Pam Ward on a running back. (via Sctvman)
"Cam Newton is a two hundred and forty...thousand pound playmaker." -- Wendy Nix (via Murph)
"The most impressive legs of any two teams in college football playing today." -- Mike Leach (via Sctvman)
"Cutcliffe encouraging the defense to be more stout." -- Beth Mowins (via Sctvman)
"A lot of times a player is picking up the futbol is susceptible." -- Mike Leach (via Sctvman)
"We've got kind of a zoo coming on here, these animals competing, right here in the arena." -- Mike Leach (ref in the game is a chief financial officer of the St. Louis zoo) (via Sctvman)
"Spurts right through it." -- Pam Ward (via Sctvman)
"He hit Thomas square on with his side." -- Pam Ward (via Sctvman)
"That timeout did the Nebraska defense a huge favor." -- Craig James calling the Arizona State-Wisconsin game. (via Eric Sorenson)
"For Florida to win the championship, you have to make short-yardage plays." -- Gary Danielson (via Sctvman)
"When you have the public media and the Tweeting and everyone has iPhones, that arrest number is shocking." -- Gary Danielson (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"It's the cardinal and gold versus the maroon and gold in downtown Minneapolis." -- Dave Lamont (via Sctvman)
"Lane Kiffin is the guy in the drive through getting coffee spilled on his lap." -- Dave Lamont
"This guy could get touchbacks in Canada." -- Pam Ward (there are no touchbacks in Canada, but she did correct herself).
"You know guys, I like this Ark...Ark... Arkan... sas ball...ar...club." -- Bob Griese
"The play here is vision." -- Chris Spielman
"Nice to see Joe [Montana] too. He's getting gray; I like that." -- Brad Nessler followed by some awkward silence.
"He keeps jumping up & down moving that hand saying, 'ow! ow! ow!" so I can't tell what's wrong, but it doesn't look good for Armando Allen." -- Holly Rowe
"Everybody's an expert..." -- Brad Nessler as camera shows fan arguing a call
"If you see anymore guts than that all year, give me a call." -- Brad Nessler
"There's some conTusion on USC's defense." -- Dave Lamont
"No sign of the field goal team." -- Mike Patrick on third down (via Sctvman)
"Looks like your 9-iron." -- Verne Lundquist after a field goal curved in. (via JFein)
"Here's the first snap. A little bit outside, as Bob Uecker used to say." -- Gary Danielson (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"Gordon just out-athletic'd Florida on that play -- Gary Danielson
"I'm glad you went with out-athletic'd instead of out-physical'd" -- Verne Lundquist (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"Michigan was down to a team, UMass, in the Championship Series." -- Pam Ward (via Sctvman)
"Dirty Laundry on the field." -- Mike Belotti (via Sctvman)
"When you get in the red zone, the field becomes more wider than it does vertically." -- Chris Martin (via mcnealc31)
"Squirts out there, then he becomes Leo DiCaprio...catch me if you can." -- Chris Martin (via mcnealc31)
"Since then (stat shows 3/9 passing) wow 30%. Wait.. a little less than that. 33%." -- Chris Martin (via mcnealc31)
"Frankie Hammond Jr.! Off the suspended list!" -- Verne Lundquist (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"And that will do it for the first quarter." -- Roger Twibel after the 3rd quarter. (via The Real Randy Jackson)
"I'm familiar with this intentional grounding stuff." -- Gary Danielson (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"Throws it deep..." -- Vern Lundquist referring to TD from 9-yard line. (via B-Flo)
"What you want to do is squeeze him from the side and shut the front door." -- Kelly Stouffer (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"We call that the dead leg. He gave him the dead leg and snuck on in there." -- Robert Smith (via JFein)
"There's been some Major League hittin' going on in this game. This one's not for sissies, this game." -- Brent Musbuger (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"Newton is banged and he's not going to get it." -- Brent Musburger (via JFein)
"Goodbye Stephon Gilmore, hello endzone." -- Andy Demetra (via Sctvman)
"We have four children. All of them are girls, except two" -- Lou Holtz
"Michael Floyd wants a slopppy burger named after him and I immediately thought of you (Blackledge)." -- Brad Nessler (via 49er16)
"Mike Stoops is on some Red Bull, chased by expresso." -- Mark Jones (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"I've never seen a thermometer block a punt, throw an INT that was returned for a TD, or let them have a kickoff return for a TD." -- Bob Davie
"Never time we do the thermometer we're gonna go buy a big time thermometer. That one came from a local thrift shop. I'm not sure of the credibility of that thermometer." (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"It was well played by Notre Dame. They defended it very, very well. There was nobody that came free." -- Lou Holtz on MSU's fake FG in OT
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Your 2010 Pam Ward Chronicles: Week 2

"I wanted to wear that today." -- Brad Nessler on green rain suit. (via Sctvman)
BASEBALL QUOTE!
"I was just thinking, in a couple months time, Jayson will find out what he is worth." -- Tim McCarver on Jayson Werth's contract situation (via JFein)
"All you do in the FB position is bang heads all day." -- Jeremy Bloom (via Sctvman)
"James Madison's best work since the Federalist Papers." -- Rece Davis (via Sctvman)
"As our old friend Hank Stram said, they're going left, Jack, they're going left, Jack." -- Brad Nessler on NASCAR (via Sctvman)
"We welcome two of the bluest of bloods." -- Brent Musburger (via Sctvman)
"He came in motion." -- Kirk Herbstreit with a TWSS (via JFein)
"Polk is great with the YAC... yards after (pause) tackle." -- Tom Glasgow (via kblinco)
"He can run a 4.4 forty in flip-flops." -- Chris Martin (via Dazzle)
"He will throw this away and live to play another down." -- Brent Musburger (via Sctvman)
"McElroy went to the hot spot beautifully." -- Brent Musburger (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"Mee-chigan hangs on." -- Rece Davis (via JFein)
"There is no tonic to cure that ailment. They want to hit people." -- Brian Griese (via Sctvman)
"If this had been back in the day, Mark would say, 'Mom! Make him stop! Get Bob off of me.'" -- Rece Davis on the Stoops brothers facing off (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"I have seen the mustache. He would have more hair on his lip than he did on his head." -- Craig James on Berman's mustache (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"ACC stands for Awful Coast Conference." -- Rece Davis (via Sctvman)
"Ohio State out-physicalled Miami." -- Mike Patrick (via Rick James Bible Owner)
"The Cavaliers are stepping on their own parts right now." -- Barry Tompkins (?) (via TheRealShaqBlog)
"This game is encouraging for Notre Dame's defense." -- Lou Holtz, 100% serious after Denard Robinson racked up 502 yards himself. May, with the rest of the world, rolls his eyes. (via Joshuaishere)
The 2010 Pam Ward Chronicles: Week 1

“They are going to go for two, because that makes it an 11 point game, which is a touchdown, a 2-point conversion, and a field goal so if they make it they get it to a potential two score game.” -- Bob Davie debating if Hawaii should go for two in a 49-36 game that USC leads with 3:52 left. (via Brady Green)
FROM THE COMMENTS:
"Samford? Samford and Son, Labor Day Weekend." -- Desmond Howard (via Sctvman)
"They're using the pistol offense and they have plenty of bullets."-- Lee Corso on UCLA (via 49er16)
"Jacobs got to bring his arms and make the tackle." -- Chris Spielman (via Sctvman)
"Kellen Moore? All he does is win, win, win. All he does is win, win win." -- Charles Neal during Delaware St./Southern
Stouffer: "I might start calling you giggles." (via Rick James Bible Owner)






Jones: "That looks like your security detail." (via Rick James Bible Owner)