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The game was in Starkville. I'm guessing ESPN figured every viewer had been to a McDonald's at some point in their lives. Except for Todd Mirinovich.
 
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I watched the whole game and they made no mention of it. Apparently there are no restaurants in Starkville.
 
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but Starkville in the past 5-7 years has completed been "renovated" including the restaurants.
 
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and right at the beginning of the game they said something about Taste of the Town coming up later?
 
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Ol Blue said:
The game was in Starkville. I'm guessing ESPN figured every viewer had been to a McDonald's at some point in their lives. Except for Todd Mirinovich.
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Nice Todd Marinovich reference though... Good things
 
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At least in Starkville we have teeth to eat at McDonalds, the taste of the town in Kentucky will obviously be at a soup bar.
 
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ESPN's ombudsman wrote about this recently (by the way, a lot of his columns are kinda interesting). In the Notre Dame-Purdue game a few weeks ago they cut away to do "Taste of the Town" and missed a critical point in the game which naturally pissed off a lot of viewers and filled up the complaint box at the WWL. Our game wasn't really decided til the last minutes so they possibly just couldn't find a good time to fit it in without distracting from what was going on on-field.

Here's the article - Good Read

And here's the text from the article pertaining to the "Taste of the Town" feature.
The second unfortunate choice came later in the game: the placement and handling of the often-used "Todd's Taste of the Town" segment. The pre-produced feature about a local eatery and the attendant on- and off-camera commentary stretched over six plays of a 17-14 game while Purdue was surging and Notre Dame was struggling.

The color and pageantry of college football is a key element of the sport's charm and popularity. Barbequing tailgaters, cheerleaders, bands, diehard fans in goofy costumes and clever signs are as much a part of the collegiate experience as the game itself. Some "color shots" enhance the live coverage, others are best used going into and out of commercials.

But forcing pre-produced non-football elements between plays in an exciting game is distracting and a disservice to the audience -- do them at halftime, during an extra timeout or when the game is no longer in doubt. If it doesn't fit because the actual game is more exciting or there are important developments, then it doesn't fit and needs to be dropped. Leave the flow of a good game alone. The viewers will appreciate it, and it's good for the broadcasters' reputations.

On the last play of the game, Blackledge correctly anticipated the call, predicting that Notre Dame's eventual game-winning, fourth-down TD pass would go to Kyle Rudolph. Now that's the kind of announcing the audience really relishes.
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their short features get moved to the backburner until they reach their pre-paid advertising slots filled. Got to pay the bills before you can show those little features that don't have bearing on the game.

They really should show the feature during the pregame.
 
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In the Notre Dame-Purdue game a few weeks ago they cut away to do "Taste of the Town" and missed a critical point in the game which naturally pissed off a lot of viewers...
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I think that's the most logical explanation. I kept thinking that it was going to come up after a commercial break, but with the pace of the game there really wasn't a good time for it.
 
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whatever said:
Ol Blue said:
The game was in Starkville. I'm guessing ESPN figured every viewer had been to a McDonald's at some point in their lives. Except for Todd Mirinovich.
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Nice Todd Marinovich reference though... Good things
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Thanks. Obviously flew over everybody else's head.
 
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