Like a chain smoker on a trans-Atlantic flight, we’ve spent the college football offseason shaking and sweating uncontrollably, unable to think about anything other than lighting up that first glorious college football broadcast of the season. Now we’re almost in the clear and are coming in for a landing to the (strained metaphor coming) Heathrow Airport that is this first football weekend of the season.
One of the few problems we’ve had with college football are the TV broadcasts. We’re not the only ones; hell, entire websites have been devoted to the insipid gaffe machines that populate the booths and sidelines of college football broadcasts. Thankfully, Samantha “The Next Erin Andrews” Steele of Fox College Sports is determined not to follow in those footsteps. She’s determined to actually learn the details about the teams she’s covering, and will go to quite the lengths to get them.
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Steele, formerly known as the much-talked-about Liberty University reporter, will be reporting from the sidelines this season for Fox College Sports, and her first assignment is this week’s Kansas/Northern Colorado. And while KU is expected to be a contender for the Big XII North this season, a game against 1-AA Northern Colorado is not exactly appointment television for anyone outside of the KC metro or Greeley, CO.
Nevertheless, Steele’s got a job to do and dammit, she’s going to do it right. Fox College Sports has partnered with a popular Kansas fan site/message board, PHOG.NET, to provide a unique interactive broadcast (follow Samantha on Twitter!), and Steele herself has rolled up her sleeves and waded into the muck that is the college sports message board to find out info about the Jayhawks. As expected, there have been some gems in return:
To be frank, I’d like to occasionally see an attractive woman during the broadcast. Your picture suggests you can fill that role just fine.
Could have been worse…much worse. Showing that famous Midwestern restraint, most board denizens have been sticking to football, or at least pleading with her not to make “Wizard of Oz” jokes. Mad props (yes, mad props) to both Samantha Steele and Fox College Sports for doing their best to actually listen to viewers and provide information that fans actually want to hear. ESPN and Pam Ward, are you listening?
*UPDATE*: Sam tweets today (11/27/09) that she’s going to a high school reunion, but not her own. Some really lucky dude’s date, perhaps?
12:33 pm on September 1st, 2009
screw this amateur
Am I the only one that remembers Lisa Durgan and Leeann Tweeden from FOX, these sideline chicks aren’t getting hotter they’re getting worst, They would put this chick and Erin Andrews to shame…..but like all hot sideline chicks they marry a ball player and get hidden from the public
And on a unrelated note, The Myers and Hartman radio show is the worst radio Ive ever heard, they remind me of the two old men in the balcony on the Muppet show
1:07 pm on September 1st, 2009
She’s gonna need to grow some t*ts first.
1:53 pm on September 1st, 2009
Grow?….Buy!
5:48 pm on September 1st, 2009
Gorgeous!
6:01 pm on September 1st, 2009
I would love to share a candle lit dinner and bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon with her.
6:40 pm on September 1st, 2009
Alpha, watch out, I don’t think she can drink yet !
6:53 pm on September 1st, 2009
All sideline chicks with a microphone should be punched in the face. Shut up and stay out of the way. Go get some pom poms.
7:25 pm on September 1st, 2009
hey favrehater, you seem to be livin in da past….can’t relive the glory days anymore….this girl knows her stuff
11:48 pm on September 1st, 2009
“One of the few problems we’ve had with college football are the TV broadcasts.”
And one of the few problems I’ve had with college football is the BCS.
F-ck the BCS, f-ck the whole bowl system. The other divisions can have playoffs and single-elimination match-play tournaments. Why can’t Division I-A figure this out? It’s not effing rocket science.
12:03 am on September 2nd, 2009
Please don’t associate the Univ. of Kansas(uk not ku) with the KC metro area!…it’s located at least 30 minutes from the nearest suburb. And at least half of Kansas Citians hate those turdbirds….Mizzou & K-State fans.
12:06 am on September 2nd, 2009
Mangina will eat her by halftime….not in a sexual way either, but in a late-afternoon-snack way. FO REALS!
12:12 am on September 2nd, 2009
Durgan, regardless of your feelings on the school, there are many more KU alumni in the Metro than there are either KSU or MU alumni.
8:57 pm on September 4th, 2009
She is cute, but she is definitely a member of the IBTC.
9:38 pm on September 4th, 2009
Wow, got some coarse folks in her. Cut her some slack. She’s def. a cutie and we’ll see how she does on the sidelines.
Like her enthusiasm, it’s refreshing in the ever-cynical world of online sports media. Wish her nothing but the best.
5:50 am on September 5th, 2009
Weak. Nothing special at all.
9:18 pm on September 5th, 2009
What a doll! Love those eyes, I can look at them for days.
10:02 pm on September 5th, 2009
How stunning! Samantha has definitely mastered the gorgeous/cute/adorable/classy look.
12:15 pm on October 24th, 2009
Surprise folks, another hottie doing sports. I do like her thou, and hope she has fully recovered from her concussion (A “dumb” blond moment). Nothing wrong with the breasts, love her dimples!
1:41 pm on October 29th, 2009
sarah, can u email me
5:01 pm on December 1st, 2009
meh..
8:50 pm on December 1st, 2009
If Samantha so much as said hi to me, it would make my year!
3:37 am on December 14th, 2009
Does anything other than loving this angel make sense? Sam can knock me over with a feather, she’s so beautiful!