Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
A promo for KFDF's lunch-hour live sports talk show, The Huddle (of which I later became the director). Taking its cue from the then-ubiquitous ad war between Sega and Nintendo, this pitted "our sports" against "their sports" (portrayed by a succession of Odyssey2 sports video games, footage I gathered at home). Burchuss the fiddygibber jumps up at the end to yell "HUDDLE!" (a reference to the "SEGA!" scream at the end of Sega's TV spots), and a good time is had by all... unless you're actually a viewer trying to comprehend what the spot is actually about.
A NOTE ABOUT VIDEO QUALITY
I began archiving my work-related video years before YouTube existed. It was an age of darkness, an age of limited web storage, an age of... {shudder} ...dial-up connections.
More to the point, my work archive at my site was all dependent on... {shudder some more} ...Adobe Flash. These videos were converted, usually from either the master MII or Beta tapes of from VHS dubs, with a program called Sorenson Squeeze. Sorenson is great for what it does, but with scenes featuring a lot of motion, there's often a lot of pixellation and motion artifacting that's considered unacceptable these days. The Sorenson files were also generated at a very small resolution, and thus the video extracted from them could only be the same resolution. (I no longer work at any of the TV stations for whom I produced these spots, and as such no longer have access to the master tapes.)
I hope you enjoy this little walk down local TV memory lane.
A promo for KFDF's lunch-hour live sports talk show, The Huddle (of which I later became the director). Taking its cue from the then-ubiquitous ad war between Sega and Nintendo, this pitted "our sports" against "their sports" (portrayed by a succession of Odyssey2 sports video games, footage I gathered at home). Burchuss the fiddygibber jumps up at the end to yell "HUDDLE!" (a reference to the "SEGA!" scream at the end of Sega's TV spots), and a good time is had by all... unless you're actually a viewer trying to comprehend what the spot is actually about.
A NOTE ABOUT VIDEO QUALITY
I began archiving my work-related video years before YouTube existed. It was an age of darkness, an age of limited web storage, an age of... {shudder} ...dial-up connections.
More to the point, my work archive at my site was all dependent on... {shudder some more} ...Adobe Flash. These videos were converted, usually from either the master MII or Beta tapes of from VHS dubs, with a program called Sorenson Squeeze. Sorenson is great for what it does, but with scenes featuring a lot of motion, there's often a lot of pixellation and motion artifacting that's considered unacceptable these days. The Sorenson files were also generated at a very small resolution, and thus the video extracted from them could only be the same resolution. (I no longer work at any of the TV stations for whom I produced these spots, and as such no longer have access to the master tapes.)
I hope you enjoy this little walk down local TV memory lane.
