ESPN mandolin blooper

**Scott Tichenor** · Jan-09-2012, 6:57am

Guess this announcer won't be hanging out with us.

**Beanzy** · Jan-09-2012, 7:01am

Orange you glad he didn't call it a banjo?

**jbrwky** · Jan-09-2012, 7:01am

It's an old Chinese instrument. I play the Cantonese.

**Pipeous** · Jan-09-2012, 7:19am

maybe he just has a speech impedement? he drives a rincon as well, maybe a cadirrac

**Kip Carter** · Jan-09-2012, 7:31am

eeeeeexxxxxxxxccuuuuuuuuuuuussssssseeeee ME! It is a peach imspediment thank you very much!
Kip...

**JEStanek** · Jan-09-2012, 7:46am

Orange topped with a sweet tone.

Jamie

**journeybear** · Jan-09-2012, 7:55am

If this had been from the Orange Bowl, I could see where the sportscaster might have had oranges on his mind. But this was from the cotton-pickin' Cotton Bowl, where the notion of picking has a very different association. But anyway, he is a color commentator, so what does he know, or need to know?

BTW, we do have confirmation from the wiki: When [Collin] Klein was in kindergarten, he became interested in learning to play the piano, and began taking lessons the next year. He would later learn how to play both the violin and the mandolin.

His multiple skills were not enough to help his team win the Cotton Bowl. The Arkansas Razorbacks defeated the Kansas State Wildcats 29-16.

**Malcolm G.** · Jan-09-2012, 8:08am

And I'll bet he has a university degree - on a sports scholarship.

**farmerjones** · Jan-09-2012, 8:22am

Didn't that guy used to play some sort of sports type thingy?

Like some sort of ball? Maybe it was bootball or something like that.

**outdoors4me** · Jan-09-2012, 8:31am

Oh my....

**chriss** · Jan-09-2012, 8:33am

I was so upset by this commentary that I went into the kitchen and ate up all my mandolin oranges!

**Jim Hilburn** · Jan-09-2012, 8:45am

After I left my last electrical job I'd occasionally stop by the office and the girl who was their purchasing agent would ask me "Are you still making Mandalay's?"

**Steve Ostrander** · Jan-09-2012, 9:04am

I'll forgive him since I don't know who Collin Klein is...

**OldSausage** · Jan-09-2012, 9:19am

The odd thing about Collin Klein is not that he plays mandolin, but that he lives in a sod house.

**journeybear** · Jan-09-2012, 9:26am

I wasn't going to mention that because it seemed like a dirty little secret. Odd what these researchers will turn up when they do a little digging ...

**Ed Goist** · Jan-09-2012, 9:46am

I love seeing humorous stories like this on the Mandarin Cafe.

**Jim Garber** · Jan-09-2012, 10:31am

Ignorance with confidence!! Excellent!

**JeffD** · Jan-09-2012, 11:05am

Well it shows you how much of a nich of a nich of a musical backwater we are.

Something to keep in mind.

**John McCoy** · Jan-09-2012, 1:25pm

According to the wiki quote journeybear found, he also plays the Violence, which seems quite appropriate for a footbowl player

**Geordie** · Jan-09-2012, 2:14pm

Originally Posted by JeffD

Well it shows you how much of a niche of a niche of a musical backwater we are.

No, it just shows you how uninformed ESPN commentators are.

**Big Rig** · Jan-09-2012, 2:28pm

Jesse Palmer is another ex-jock with no journalist degree or experience that ESPN always seems to hire. I find them more informative with the volume off.