Fox Sports Covers Their Fumble »
Way back on August 24th, as the Carolina Panthers were playing the Miami Dolphins in an NFL preseason game, the announcers came on to tell us that one lucky fan would be going home that night with a car. How else did they plan on keeping an audience, with the starters long gone and no one in their right mind wanting to tune into the rest of a boring game?
As it turns out, I heard that announcement, and it did pique my interest, but I fell asleep anyway. That's the risk you run when you start a game at 7:30 on a school night. But there were those who didn't fall asleep, and they lasted until there were a little less than two minutes left in the game, when they saw Tony Siragusa present Greg "Catman" Good with a car. Not just any car, mind you - a Porsche. Unfortunately, it was a toy car. The whole thing was just a joke gone horribly wrong in an attempt to keep viewers until the end of the game and make sure advertisers were happy.
