This week on ESPN, we’re going to have awful announcers calling the shots instead the great preseason homers like Kevin Reilly, Ron Wolfley and Don Tollefson, inept ESPN guys Emmitt, Herman Edwards, and aloof people like Jay Cutler. Here’s what it would sound like if some of these du...
The average score was 2.64. CBS was the best scoring network, with their announcers receiving an average grade of 2.73. ESPN was right behind CBS, though the network had just two teams (compared to six for CBS), with an average grade of 2.71. Fox brought up the rear with a 2.53 averag...
Jim Miller of New York points out that NFL announcers have begun to refer to mass confusion at the line of scrimmage as a "scrum." But a scrum is a relatively orderly event used in rugby to put the ball back into play after an infraction. Mass chaos in rugby, Miller notes, is proper...
This is catching on like wildfire, isn't it? When you look at the number of overmatched NFL announcers, here's a genre that loves to take too many words to say something. The Wendy Torrance Award for "Single scariest moment when you realize that all hell could potentially break loose" ...
In football safety news, last month TMQ supposed, "The next step will be for the on-air game announcers of ESPN, ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and NFL Network to stop praising vicious hits; to express disdain for the players who make helmet-to-helmet hits, while criticizing rather than hyping the...
a walking tour of football-tactics history. Layden shows that many of what announcers call "revolutionary new tactics" are actually recycling of old ideas -- for instance, if you think the spread offense is new, maybe you should read "Spread Formation Football" by TCU coach Leo "Dutch" Meye...