If you are like me and can't stand many of the sports announcers on the television today, here's a great website/blog - www.awfulannouncing.com - that picks apart the awful announcers that shouldn't be in the booth - and that includes Bryant Gumbel. Bryant, it's time to leave the booth.
While I'm at it, the Monday Night Football team is terrible - and I like Kornheiser with PTI, but not in the booth. They always leave the game in the third quarter with these boring interviews with celebrities. Hey, this isn't Oprah. Concentrate on the game.
And what is it with these five and six person populated football pregame shows? There are going to need more chairs if they keep this pace up. Let's stick with four, or better yet, three. And there should be a moratorium on the number of formers players on these shows.
2 comments:
Wholeheartedly agree with your Kornheiser assessment. Brilliant on PTI. Unnecessary in the booth.
When you get down to it, the sports with the best announcing are the least popular sports. Watch Tennis, Golf, Bowling, or Figure Skating, and you're honestly going to hear the best play-by-play there is on TV. That's because they don't announce it like it's on radio. We can see the action so there's no need to give every detail vocally. The announcers offer insight, but on a limited basis. They let the sounds of the game and the crowd tell the story and chime in after a point or a shot.
I'd love to see the NFL run that experiment. Set up the play (formation and key figures, e.g. "Randy Moss in the Slot") and just let the play happen. Follow up with some insight IF NEEDED.
I don't watch three-hour long TV shows. Why would I want to hear two guys bantering non-stop for the same amount of time?
It's cliche`, but less is more.
Great Comment Rusty!!
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