{"id":43354,"date":"2025-11-10T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/43354\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:53:07","slug":"how-espn-missed-the-mark-on-lubbocks-true-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/43354\/","title":{"rendered":"How ESPN Missed The Mark On Lubbock&#8217;s True Essence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN called their College GameDay intro a \u201clove letter to Lubbock,\u201d but I call it a load of baloney.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong \u2014 the ESPN crew was great in person. They hit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kfmx.com\/tags\/lubbock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lubbock<\/a> restaurants, sampled real West Texas grub on-air, and captured the electricity of Texas Tech fans perfectly. But that polished opener? A complete dud and a total cop-out.<\/p>\n<p>First off, the idea that Lubbock smells like stockyards is just lazy. We don\u2019t have stockyards here. Every now and then, a strong wind might blow in something nasty from miles away, but on the regular, our air smells like dust and sunshine \u2014 nothing more. The climate\u2019s too dry to hold any of that \u201ccow pattie\u201d nonsense anyway.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN College GameDay\u2019s Tribute Missed\u00a0a Real Lubbock Legend<\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s talk about their musical name-dropping: Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, John Denver, and Meatloaf. Okay, let\u2019s unpack that. Buddy\u2019s a solid checkmark, Waylon\u2019s from Littlefield (and they\u2019ll fight you over claiming him), and Denver and Meatloaf were here and gone quicker than a popcorn fart in the wind.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, the most glaring omission is the one name that should\u2019ve led the list \u2014 Natalie Maines. She\u2019s actually from Lubbock, and she\u2019s the leader of a band that has sold 30 million+ records, making them the most successful all-female band of the modern era. Leaving her out wasn\u2019t an oversight \u2014 it was a cowardly move.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, anyone still mad at Natalie Maines has said things ten times meaner than the one comment she made 22 years ago. Maybe it\u2019s time for folks to take the popsicle stick out and reread that part of the Bible about forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kfmx.com\/lubbock-college-gameday-venues\/?utm_source=tsmclip&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5 Places ESPN Should Never Set Up For Texas Tech Vs. BYU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ESPN could\u2019ve easily said, \u201c&#8230;and the still locally controversial Natalie Maines.\u201d That would\u2019ve been honest. Instead, they chose the safe route \u2014 or as we like to call it around here, being chickenshit.<\/p>\n<p>41 Breathtaking Photos From The Tallest Building in Lubbock, Texas<\/p>\n<p>Lubbock looks amazing from the tallest building in town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Chrissy<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech&#8217;s Tortilla Throwing Tradition<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Topher Covarrubio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN called their College GameDay intro a \u201clove letter to Lubbock,\u201d but I call it a load of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-43354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}