{"id":11342,"date":"2019-09-20T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11342"},"modified":"2019-09-19T01:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:03:33","slug":"the-big-what-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-big-what-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big WHAT kickoff?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/fox\/fox-big-noon-kickoff-achieves-foxs-goal-of-promoting-their-weekly-noon-game-but-likely-wont-convert-gameday-loyalists.html\">another attempt by Fox to differentiate itself from ESPN<\/a>, the early Saturday college football game is getting some higher-profile teams. Let&#8217;s ignore for the moment that a talking-head set of\u00a0Urban Meyer, Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart, and Brady Quinn raises all sorts of skeevy ethical questions and look at the branding for this game:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2019\/8\/29\/20838803\/sports-media-fox-college-football-big-noon-kickoff-urban-meyer-matt-leinart-reggie-bush-brady-quinn\">Big Noon Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Big Ten and Big 12, the conferences from which this pool of early games will be drawn, have nine teams in Eastern Time and 15 in Central.\u00a0That means for a majority of the people tuning in to watch their team, it&#8217;s actually Big <em>11 AM<\/em> Saturday with the pregame \u2014 called &#8220;Big Noon Kickoff&#8221; \u2014 starting at 10.<\/p>\n<p>The East Coast could at least pretend they know that flyover country exists by not deliberately giving programs names that don&#8217;t work for a majority of the viewers (see also: <a href=\"https:\/\/thebiglead.com\/2018\/01\/26\/jemele-hill-michael-smith-sportscenter-sc6-espn\/\">ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;SC6&#8221;<\/a>), but that would require perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another attempt by Fox to differentiate itself from ESPN, the early Saturday college football game is getting some higher-profile teams. Let&#8217;s ignore for the moment that a talking-head set of\u00a0Urban Meyer, Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart, and Brady Quinn &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-big-what-kickoff\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11357,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11342\/revisions\/11357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}