December 01, 2007
I Loathe ABC's "Coverage" of Football
We are attempting to watch the Mizzou - Oklahoma game (forgot to add that at the beginning because I'm so annoyed - heh)
I had to get away from the television. Musburger and his television partner Kirk Herbstreit are making me want to strangle someone... anyone... preferably one of them.
Why are they there? They don't seem to be the least bit interested in the game. Musburger doesn't know who the players are - for that matter I wonder if he knows he's calling a Big 12 game. (last week he said it was a Big 10 game - sheesh!) They're more interested in yakking at each other and showing us cute graphics and talking about the possible Bowl games coming up.
And let's not forget the sideline guy (can't remember his name and don't care) who apparently knows more about football than anyone else on the field as he's soooo keen to tell us exactly how each team "should" be doing things.
Why is there not a "mute telecaster" button so I can have the crowd, but not these bozos?
At one point the cameras are once again giving us the oh so excellent view of Musburger and Herbstreit in their nice black coats whereupon Musburger says - you can see the injured player is leaving the field under his own power. I'm yelling at the television "We could see it if you morons would show us the FIELD instead of you two!"
ARG!!!!
Can we PLEASE have the guys who are broadcasting the Pitt - West Virginia game? THEY actually seem to be interested in the game and... wait for it... know what's happening on the field!!! What a concept. (yes we are flipping between games - can't stand the horrid commercials)
I had to get away from the television. Musburger and his television partner Kirk Herbstreit are making me want to strangle someone... anyone... preferably one of them.
Why are they there? They don't seem to be the least bit interested in the game. Musburger doesn't know who the players are - for that matter I wonder if he knows he's calling a Big 12 game. (last week he said it was a Big 10 game - sheesh!) They're more interested in yakking at each other and showing us cute graphics and talking about the possible Bowl games coming up.
And let's not forget the sideline guy (can't remember his name and don't care) who apparently knows more about football than anyone else on the field as he's soooo keen to tell us exactly how each team "should" be doing things.
Why is there not a "mute telecaster" button so I can have the crowd, but not these bozos?
At one point the cameras are once again giving us the oh so excellent view of Musburger and Herbstreit in their nice black coats whereupon Musburger says - you can see the injured player is leaving the field under his own power. I'm yelling at the television "We could see it if you morons would show us the FIELD instead of you two!"
ARG!!!!
Can we PLEASE have the guys who are broadcasting the Pitt - West Virginia game? THEY actually seem to be interested in the game and... wait for it... know what's happening on the field!!! What a concept. (yes we are flipping between games - can't stand the horrid commercials)
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My Dad & I were just talking last night about how I used to hate the former Brooklyn Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully [he co-broadcasted the '86 World Series with Joe Garagiola]. Everything he said was bad juju and he made things happen, like with the Evil Eye, that was not so fortuitous for the team we were rooting for [the Metsies]. I know just what you mean.
Posted by: Erica at December 02, 2007 05:33 PM (8ywTC)
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Every now and then The Hub comes out of a hole somewhere in the bowels of house and I haven't seen him for a few days so I go, "Hey, new beard? Where have you been?" And he says, "Watching football." And I go: "Oh. That's nice; is it a good game?" You know, like I'm totally feigning interest the same way he feigns interest in my old garden rose soliloquies. Then he knows I'm feigning interest, but he'll say something like, "The best team keeps getting beat; it's kinda weird." And then I say something like, "Wow, that DOES sound interesting. So the best team isn't really the best team, after all, then." And he looks at me like I'm retarded.
Posted by: dogette at December 04, 2007 09:35 AM (q/UVc)
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