While I absolutely agree with you regarding the women on the sidelines (quota), most of the males are blithering idiots too. My favorite lines are: “a play you have to make”, “the team with the most points will win this one”, he is one fine specimen”, “that is a pure athlete”...blah blah blah I could repeat idiotic lines too, or read facts fed to me by a computer handout. Very few of the current commentators have enough functioning brain cells
As we know radio play-by-play announcers are supposed to “paint” us a picture of what’s going on. A few years ago I heard that old guy who used to call Georgia’s games say “Folks. I wish you could have seen what I just saw.”
I wish I could remember some of the more humorous stupid things we’ve heard commentators say this year. We are Bama fans, and hubby will watch games over and over again. That way we can hear the stupidity over and over again, too. I don’t know why hubby doesn’t turn the volume off, but there have been times when we have laughed so hard that I was crying due to the stupid things genius commentators say.
I do want to put in a plug for Todd Blackledge who is the least stupid of commentators. Maybe we love him most because he loves to come to Bama games and speaks highly of the experience. I also have come to like Gary Danielson. My least favorite of the big-time game announcers are Herbstreit (sp?) and his cohort who has been doing this forever but his name escapes me. They say the dumbest things. Ah yes. It’s Brent Musberger (sp?). Ugh.