Sabres Embedded—Zach Benson Goes Back To The Fairgrounds

[Porous Five Hole]

A little long, but fun to learn about his family and history. 

[ponokasabre]

Really cool embedded, love Benny 

[sabremike]

[DarthEbriate]

I don't watch Sabres promo videos, so I'm just going to make up an angle that this clearly means he isn't serious about hockey because he wasn't on the ice 24/7 during the summer and that he was busy eating cotton candy and operating the Scrambler instead of hitting the gym and working on his burst.

[Porous Five Hole]

1 hour ago, DarthEbriate said:

I don't watch Sabres promo videos, so I'm just going to make up an angle that this clearly means he isn't serious about hockey because he wasn't on the ice 24/7 during the summer and that he was busy eating cotton candy and operating the Scrambler instead of hitting the gym and working on his burst.

I understand not being interested in the promo videos.

I will say these hokey videos help my wife become more interested and invested in the players & the team. She didn’t grow up a hockey fan. 

[DarthEbriate]

6 hours ago, Porous Five Hole said:

I understand not being interested in the promo videos.

I will say these hokey videos help my wife become more interested and invested in the players & the team. She didn’t grow up a hockey fan. 

It's the same goal as the Olympics vignettes or the Indy 500 Delta Force theme intros. The human story can be as compelling as the sporting story.

[mjd1001]

1 hour ago, DarthEbriate said:

It's the same goal as the Olympics vignettes or the Indy 500 Delta Force theme intros. The human story can be as compelling as the sporting story.

On a side not but related....sometimes the networks take it too far.

About 7 or 8 years ago the Indy500 was on TV and I was watching.  Like it often happens, 2 cars were fighting for the lead with only a few laps left, swapping the lead ever 1/2 to lap.  Some geniuses decided to not even do 'split screen', but to put 2 pictures on the broadcast....one in the upper corner, one in the lower corner.  So what you ended up seeing was some empty space and each picture was only 1/3 the size of the screen.

What was the split screen for?  Well, if you wanted to watch the last couple laps, the cars fighting for the lead, it was now in the upper left corner of the screen, maybe taking up 30% of the screen. The other view?  Close up of the faces of the wives, with their hands covering their mout looking nervous.

Auto racing is famous for that. I don't remember if its worse on the Indycar broadcasts, Nascar, or F1, but on occasion they will show you the winner cross the line, and there are other cars still finishing the race, still fighting for position. But nope, the Camera cuts to the wife/girfriend of the winning drive so we can all see how happy SHE is. Doesn't matter if your favorite driver was in the middle of a pack fighting for a top 10 finish that may move them up or down in the standings. Gotta show everyone how happy the wife is 3 seconds after the winner crosses the line.

I get it pre race or post race.  I don't like it but I get it. But when a big race is on the last lap or finishing, no one is being 'drawn into' the broadcast at that moment for much other than to see who wins and how they do it.

Edited 15 hours ago by mjd1001

[LGR4GM]

Finally watched this... when Benson jumps with all that weight, my word his legs are trees. Glad he said he needs more burst.

Fun video, really cool look into his life and seeing him with his family was great. Offered Grandma, mom,  grandpa donuts in that order, he gets it. 

[DarthEbriate]

14 hours ago, mjd1001 said:

On a side not but related....sometimes the networks take it too far.

About 7 or 8 years ago the Indy500 was on TV and I was watching.  Like it often happens, 2 cars were fighting for the lead with only a few laps left, swapping the lead ever 1/2 to lap.  Some geniuses decided to not even do 'split screen', but to put 2 pictures on the broadcast....one in the upper corner, one in the lower corner.  So what you ended up seeing was some empty space and each picture was only 1/3 the size of the screen.

What was the split screen for?  Well, if you wanted to watch the last couple laps, the cars fighting for the lead, it was now in the upper left corner of the screen, maybe taking up 30% of the screen. The other view?  Close up of the faces of the wives, with their hands covering their mout looking nervous.

Auto racing is famous for that. I don't remember if its worse on the Indycar broadcasts, Nascar, or F1, but on occasion they will show you the winner cross the line, and there are other cars still finishing the race, still fighting for position. But nope, the Camera cuts to the wife/girfriend of the winning drive so we can all see how happy SHE is. Doesn't matter if your favorite driver was in the middle of a pack fighting for a top 10 finish that may move them up or down in the standings. Gotta show everyone how happy the wife is 3 seconds after the winner crosses the line.

I get it pre race or post race.  I don't like it but I get it. But when a big race is on the last lap or finishing, no one is being 'drawn into' the broadcast at that moment for much other than to see who wins and how they do it.

The 2 split screen makes almost no sense. Just do a single extra picture in the upper right...

For racing, everyone is in fire suits and helmets, or worse -- in a helmet and moving 200 mph. The only people they can show with emotion and faces are the team chief and the wife. It's a tricky broadcast to show the humanity. They're better now with the mic'd up style radio and tons of onboard cameras. But back in the day, filling a 2-hour race was a challenge beyond the cool nyeeooommm sounds.

Edit: Off Topic, but on the topic of nyeeooommm sounds...  Our GM had to go and ruin everything with his talk of palm trees, but I still have the Sabres cars built and ready for action.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by DarthEbriate