Ah, TV football announcers....

[AWD]

"Here comes Peyton Manning, who has 13 come-from-behind wins in his career. Let's see if he can make it 14."

The score is 6-6.

Somebody wanna smack the announcer??

[fofer]

1. I'm with you.

Football announcers have to be some of the most overpaid people in the universe. They rarely actually CALL the game anymore---God forbid---because they're too busy chortling at inside jokes or spewing meaningless stats.

One of my favorite announcer quotes ever: "To win this game, they're gonna have to start scoring some points."

Actual quote, no word of a lie, although I forget which game it's from.


fofer

[sasquatch]

2. There are a lot of in idiots in TV football anouncing

I hear the dumbest things on Sunday's and it isn't from televangelist:evilfrown:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. I turn of network TV and listen to my local announcers on radio

Fox and CBS announcers are fucking morons. At least our baseball annoucers on NESN are worth listening to.

[Lindsay]

4. Technically

the announcer was right...the Browns were up 3-0 at one point.

Man, ya gotta love games with a lotta offense. :eyes:

[trof]

5. It's the minutia that I love.

"Ya know, Charlie, Kinsolving has averaged 38.73 yards in his field goal attempts the last two season with a 78.29 success rate."

"That's right, Harry. His longest successful attempt was from 43.929 yards in last year's Denver game.
Of course he had the wind at his back."

"Right your are, Charlie. Two-nine-zero degrees at 13 knots. That's be 15 miles an hour. Kind of a right quartering tailwind. The barometric pressure was 29.97, and steady. That always helps, not to take anything away from Kinsolving's skill as a kicker."

"I guess you know this Harry, but for our fans - Kinsolving is the only left-footed kicker in the NFL who is missing the pinky toenail on his right foot. It doesn't seem to bother him in his set up and approach. Still, ya gotta admire an athlete who can overcome a physical handicap like that and still excel at his game."

"You said a mouthful Charlie. He's no quitter. Our viewers might also be interested to learn that he lost that toenail in a water skiing mishap when he was 11. Sure doesn't pay to try barefoot skiing when there are gators around."

"Boy, that goes without saying Harry. Any kids watching out there, DO NOT try this at home."
blah blah blah blah blah

[underpants]

6. I have one name for you:Todd Christiansen

Spelling of his last name might be off.

Easily the best color guy in all of football. He mostly does mountain zone games now but he has the ability to call a game (well researched), entertain, inform, and most importantly not insult your intelligence.

I do have to say that Troy Aikman has set himself apart as in the NFL. The change the line-up to include Chris Collinsworth (it was Darryl Johnston) but Aikman's telecasts were unique in that the replay of each play was not the close up shot where you can't see what is happening around the ball handler but the game film shot and you could see everything that was happening. They need to show a lot more of that and stop working so hard to create superstars.

[VermontDem2004]

7. The announcer got it right

The browns were up 3-0, anytime you are trailing at any point in the game and you come up with a victory, guess what? It is a comefrom behind victory.


Also, an announcer said this quote once but I can't remember where it was from.
"90 percent of the game is half mental."

[GOPisEvil]

8. I think that's a Yogi Berra quote.

I think. :-)

[VermontDem2004]

9. Maybe

Now that I think of it, it might be him.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Is Jack A Root That Guy's Real Name OR,

did he just pick that name, like people in Hollywood most times do? He should be doing Blow by Blow on Dick Trickle's driving instead of college football with a moniker like that! They could call it NASTYCAR! How do I explain Jack A Root to my grandsons?

[VelmaD]

11. What drives me nuts...

and it isn't just the footbal guys who do this...is when the score is something like 14-7 and they say the theam on bottom is "within 7 points". Argh. NO. They are within 8 points you fuckin' idiot.

My other peeve is on football officials. If I hear one more say "false start prior to the snap" I'm gonna hurt someone. Of course it's prior to the snap you moron. If it was after the snap it wouldn't be a freakin' false start now would it. Sheesh.

Darth Velma

[DrGonzoLives]

12. Could be worse...

You could have the Bill Walton "The team that scores the most points will win this game" special...

[HEyHEY]

13. John MAdden..dumb as a stick

"Now here's a guy when he puts his contacts in he can see better"