Don Draper missed out on a great Cotton Bowl

Don Draper missed one heck of a moment in college football history.

I’m a big fan of the show Mad Men, which aired the latest season premiere Sunday night. In the episode we see our favorite ad man Don Draper share an elevator ride with someone who works in his office that he barely recognizes. It turns out this employee of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, Bob Benson in accounts, is able to get tickets to the 1968 Cotton Bowl between Alabama and Texas A&M. Benson appears to admire Don’s work and wants to try and emulate his success. This will surely be a story that develops throughout the season now that Peggy Olsen has moved on to bigger and better things after years as Don’s upcoming apprentice of sorts.

Don appears to have little time to waste on sports throughout the series. It just doesn’t seem like his thing. Don would rather be smoking a cigarette, sipping on an Old Fashion (neat) and either coming up with new ad campaigns on a napkin or scoping out his latest woman to fancy, when his eye somehow wanders away from his lovely wife and aspiring actress Megan.

So, what game did Don miss out on? One of the greats.

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Arizona State adding some new helmets in 2013?

Photo evidence might suggest that Arizona State is going to be adding at least one new helmet to the uniform mix this season. The new additions appear to include a white helmet and a maroon one with the previously updated pitchfork design on the side.

HT: UniWatch

Podcast – Tim Tolley from FanSided150.com

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I had planned on posting a nice interview I recorded with Tim Tolley, from FanSided150.com. Unfortunately, after needing to reschedule a couple of times with Tim and finally getting a chance to record the podcast with him yesterday there was some sort of technical error that wiped out the final 20 minutes of what was about a 25 minute conversation.

I had noticed a glitch for a couple of seconds during the recording process but believed I had caught it quickly enough to still keep the recording going largely without a problem. However, when it came time to mixing the audio down I somehow lost the majority of the conversation. Unfortunately, this was one of the times I decided not to record our Skype chat through a second audio recording program, as I often do. Please, let this be a lesson to any podcasters out there, new and veteran, don’t risk cutting corners when recording a conversation. Scout’s motto: Always be prepared.

The audio attached to this podcast cuts off rather abruptly.  I am aware of that and unfortunately at this time there is no way to fix it. Tim was kind enough to offer his time though and in fairness to him I wanted to share the little bit of audio I did have anyway.

I will return with a new podcast sometime next week and will take some extra measures to ensure there are no hiccups. In the meantime, I encourage you all to check out the FanSided 150 for free recruiting analysis all year round. Follow FanSided 150 on Twitter. Follow Tim on Twitter as well.

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Virginia Tech’s new digital camouflage helmet for 2013

Virginia Tech is once again going to be wearing a digital camouflage design on their helmets for a game this season, which has become a nice trend around college football for some schools in honor of the nation’s military. The Hokies were a military appreciation helmet last season, but this year’s edition is heavy on the orange.

Photo via UniWatch

These helmets will be worn for a September 21 game against Marshall. This is interesting because the Hokies have that September 21 game marked on their calendar as a “White Effect” game. It would have seemed like an appropriate opportunity to roll out a white Hokies helmet as the fans will likely be decked out in all white.

I sort of like last year’s military appreciation helmet better than this version, but when it comes to honoring the troops and those who have served it is difficult to find too much fault in any design. Don’t worry though, because I am sure Virginia Tech will serve up something we can poke some fun at for the 2013 season.

NCAA Football 14 bringing new real-life physics to game

A day after getting our first official glimpse at NCAA Football 14, we now have video footage to drool over, and it is most certainly worthy of that. This year EA Sports is porting over the more realistic physics found in the Madden franchise, giving NCAA Football more realistic movements and collisions  This is generally the trend with these two franchises, with features from the NFL title making their way to the NCAA game a year or two later. In this case, it may have been worth the wait if you have been waiting for tackles and the breaking of tackles to feel more authentic.

I’m just going to allow Oregon’s Kenjon Barner and a couple guys from EA Sports to do the talking here.