NFL announcers

[22Horn]

With exception of a few, what has happened to the good NFL announcers.......this group tonight seem to want to talk louder and faster than their broadcasters and with more knowledge....sometime so fast that their message is not even heard let alone understood.

I normally like S Levy but....!

 

[SabreHorn]

They are too busy trying to convince you that the fattest girl in class should be prom queen. They are forced to sell a nearly unwatchable product made up of unlikable people who think their **** don't stink.

 

[BLucky]

I don't even know who the announcers are. If by chance a game is on, the volume is at 0. My wife accuses me of being in the announcers' heads because I say things a split second before they do. That tells me I don't need to listen to them.

 

[BornOrange0855]

I rarely need to hear what they have to say. I can see with my own two eyes what just happened. I swear I think most of them get paid by the word. I keep the volume at 0 also.

 

[nashhorn]

Me too in the volume at zero, until wife comes in and says she can’t hear it. Ugh

 

[huisache]

they get paid big bucks to make the game interesting to people who don't understand it.

And to get the inside scoop on what is going to happen they have to suck up to a bunch of coaches (all of whom are really smart, knowing guys until they get fired, after which they are failures who should have been fired the year before)

theirs is a thankless job. How would you like to have to sound like a homer to both sides? It aint easy.

 

[dukesteer]

With exception of a few, what has happened to the good NFL announcers.......this group tonight seem to want to talk louder and faster than their broadcasters and with more knowledge....sometime so fast that their message is not even heard let alone understood.

I normally like S Levy but....!

So glad you posted this thread. I thought about doing so last night but pulled back.

Last night’s telecast drove me crazy. Levy was terrible. He thinks he needs to talk all the time. So he does, and comes across as a nincompoop. So do the analyst. And they’re both, well, annoying with their brilliance, to be kind.

Two examples:

Hurts misses his TE one play after hitting the same TE (same play, other side) with a 20 + yard gain, and the analysts pounce. Did they happen to notice that the ball was tipped? I did. So too did probably another 15 million TV viewers.

Next play, the pick 6.

Ahh, do you think the fact that the receiver fell down had anything to do with the results of the play? Duh. Yet, they kept effusively heaping praise on the DB and questioning Hurts. Again, you fools, the receiver fell down!

It was painful, and much of the time I muted the audio.

 

[Seattle Husker]

Payton & Eli have made watching Monday Night Football bearable again. In fact, this is Mystery Science Theater 3000 for football fans. Some of their guests (e.g. Russel Wilson) have been equally as enjoyable to listen to.

Eli pulling the double bird on ESPN2 while describing 9yr old Philadelphia fans flipping him off was amazing TV. The fact that he was goaded into flipping off the cameras by Payton was all the better.

 

[ViperHorn]

As long as they have that earpiece on, someone somewhere is telling them what to say. This is especially true for those who have never played the sport they are working on.