NFL broadcast thread (née ABC to kill MNF?)

[ice grillin you]

i like collingsworth but aikman is way better than he is and gruden is also better

collingsworth gives strong opinions but adds little football wise...what he says i pretty much always agree with but he never ever comes with anything that makes me go hmmmm or think yeah i never thought of that

hes pretty elementary

[Munson]

Aikmen is excellent. I just wish they'd get that douche Joe Buck out of the booth

[MDS]

i like collingsworth but aikman is way better than he is and gruden is also better

collingsworth gives strong opinions but adds little football wise...what he says i pretty much always agree with but he never ever comes with anything that makes me go hmmmm or think yeah i never thought of that

hes pretty elementary

i hate it when we disagree

aikman can be good at times but very often says insanely generic things or nothing at all. to an extent buck brings him down, though.

collinsworth notices things no one else notices and is pretty much the only one who routinely rips players and coaches apart. gruden is still very lovey dovey because he obviously wants another gig at some point.

[Rome]

Football broadcasts should be a single guy talking about what's going on.

Period.

Same as in baseball.  Just assume everyone listening is blind and simply describe what's going on in front of you. 

Three iceholes in a booth talking at once is like pure torture to me.

[Sgt PSN]

Football broadcasts should be a single guy talking about what's going on.

Period.

Same as in baseball.  Just assume everyone listening is blind and simply describe what's going on in front of you. 

Three iceholes in a booth talking at once is like pure torture to me.

That's for radio broadcasters.  I'd be fine with a single commentator for baseball like Scully, but there's pretty much no one out there who could carry a broadcast by himself.   For football I do prefer to 2 man team though.  PBP guys in football don't strike me as any more knowledgeable about the sport than serious fans.  They're knowledge is limited to the stats and information given to them from the researchers but their actual game knowledge doesn't seem to be very impressive.  No way Joe Buck would be able to predict the next play like Gruden or break down the previous play like Jaws.   

[MDS]

joe buck could laugh at artie lange without being his funholey self

hes a terrible human being and i want to punch him

[ice grillin you]

joe buck is a big a pompous ahole as you will ever come across and it over shadows the fact that hes a very good announcer

hes kind of like the drew rosenhaus of broadcasters

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Well, the worst example of his "good announcing" is his anti-climatic and borderline angry call of DeSean's punt return last year. Almost exasperated. Just bad bad bad.

[ice grillin you]

i guess its the difference btwn a homer ear and hater ear but i didnt hear that at all and thought the call was actually very good

his UNBELIVABLE at the end didnt sound anti climatic at all to me....but 95% of fans think announcers are anti their team...so i can see where you are coming from

[General_Failure]

joe buck could laugh at artie lange without being his funholey self

If Artie Lange were ever funny, yeah, Joe Buck should definitely laugh.

[MDS]

he was funny on the joe buck show, thats for sure

i guess its the difference btwn a homer ear and hater ear but i didnt hear that at all and thought the call was actually very good

his UNBELIVABLE at the end didnt sound anti climatic at all to me....but 95% of fans think announcers are anti their team...so i can see where you are coming from

it wasnt a terrible call, which is a stretch for him, mostly because it was so shocking. buck is pretty obviously disinterested in what he does, or in the least attempting to be so neutral that he comes off as insanely bland. to me it seems like hed rather be somewhere else.

the pimp play kind of caused him, ever so briefly, to wake up and actually be a real announcer and he did it pretty well. problem is if you look at his key calls, say during the super bowl or during the 2010 nfc title game, its pretty shocking how level headed and mundane he is as such critical points of the game.

but really the ultimate proof in how pointless announcers are is nfl ratings. theyre off the charts, and with the exception of michaels (despite being a zealot of epic proportions), gumbel and a few of the cbs guys, the announcers are pretty unlikable (buck, tirico) to just plain bad at their jobs (kenny albert, stockton). 

[SD]

Well, the worst example of his "good announcing" is his anti-climatic and borderline angry call of DeSean's punt return last year. Almost exasperated. Just bad bad bad.

I thought it was a great call. He rarely puts emotion into his calls since he's a national announcer but he clearly went out of character when that happened.

Overall I like Joe Buck. He has a great voice (or should I say 'had') and calls the game without adding too much commentary. Don't know why he rubs so many people the wrong way.

[ice grillin you]

im with you on buck cept he does come off as pompous and douchey and while that doesnt bother me i can def see why people would be straffed by him...but saying hes an awful announcer is untruth....i hate al michaels to death because of his politics but i still have to admit that hes been a great pbp guy

[MDS]

yet you love tony la russa and hes right there with michaels as a disgusting right wing zealot

splain that

[ice grillin you]

i dont care about larussa either way i just laugh at people when they say hes a terrible manager