Coverage of NFL football on CBS hit rock bottom at 3:10 CST on Sunday during the Minnesota-Atlanta game when the announcing team of Dick Stockton, Brian Baldinger and Brian Billick actually changed out of their suits and put on Atlanta Falcons cheerleading skirts.
Granted, I usually watch the NFL with the mute button on. Most play-by-play announcers are blind and most colour commentators just talk for the sake of talking. After awhile, the whole thing just gets annoying and it’s so much more peaceful and sane with no announcers.
But on Sunday, I made the huge mistake of actually listening to Stockton, Baldinger (yap, yap, yap) and Billick. It would have been more comfortable sticking hot pokers in my ears.
Here’s what drove me nuts…
1) The three of them were more interested in the crowd noise than the play on the field.
2) Until the third replay, Stockton tried to maintain that Visanthe Shiancoe’s reach for the end zone was a fumble.
3) Finally, the outright cheerleading for the Falcons reached such a crescendo that it was time to hit the mute button.
Why can’t these guys just call the game? They make millions and not one of them could call his dog, let alone a football game…. mute!
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Oh my gawd! I just turned the volume back up and Baldinger is talking about the crowd again. Brian, buddy, the drunk in the fourth row at the Metrodome can’t run for a first down. The crowd has nothing to do with anything. You’re an idiot!!!!
Sorry. I promise I will mute the TV for the remainder of my football day.
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