Posted on 12/24/2020 12:39:18 PM PST by MarvinStinson
For decades, we’ve been trained to believe that live sporting events must be broadcast a certain way. Namely, that they should be called and analyzed by an overwhelmingly white, almost exclusively male cadre of voices.
They’re mostly measured, but they dutifully get excited at the “proper” moments.
Into this fray has stepped someone who doesn’t look or sound like pretty much anyone else in sports broadcasting booths: Aqib Talib. Talib has been in the booth for two Fox games this season.
I covered Talib while he was with the New England Patriots and he was unlike any player who passed through the locker room. He quickly acclimated to Bill Belichick’s methods, and in that season and a half he blossomed into a Pro Bowler.
The reality is that for a not-small population of football fans, Talib marks the first time they’ve heard someone who sounds like them in a broadcast booth. He’s quite literally speaking their language — Black English, or as it’s called by academics, African American Vernacular English, the dialect developed by Black Americans over centuries. It is often cited as another way to denigrate those who use it because it’s not the “accepted” way of speech here.
Yes, his verb conjugations aren’t perfect to you, and yes, he says “man” a bit too much.
At minimum he’s not Cris Collinsworth, whose idea of “analysis” recently was showing utter fascination that women understand football. And he hasn’t been caught on a hot mic denigrating queer people like one former MLB broadcaster.
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I’ll be too busy not watching sports to listen to Ebonics from the booth.
Never had an issue with Talib personally, but we tuned in to whatever game he was doing last week and could not believe how awful he was. Terrible
commentating in every way. Voice, lack of skill, everything. Learned after a few minutes who it was. They cut back to the red zone guy who was gushing about how good he was. We now live in a post-reality world.
What a load of drek
SHALISE MANZA stickin’ up for the brother eh?
“His verb conjugations”
That’s a friggin’ understatement....university of Kansas must be so proud. Perfect example of athletes being ushered through school at all levels because they can help the schools team win.
ALL ABOUT THE DOLLAZ. YO
NF? Who???
Racist much, AOL?
I lost I trest in football after madden retired not to keen on nascar now that DW is out of the booth
If you listen to him his knowledge of the game is actually deep....the delivery however is at about the 10th grade level IMO...and that’s being generous.
Give me the well spoken intelligent Robert Smith of Minnesota Vikings fame.
On top of everything he uses too much jargon.
“They usin’ sticky coverage on da outside.”
I’ve watched football for 50 years and I couldn’t understand what he was trying to say.
“not to keen on nascar now that DW is out of the booth”
DW out was a plus for me. Lol
If I never hear that boogety crap again that’ll be fine with me.
He’s talking like he’s still on the sideline.....minus using the N word. Believe me that’s why the nfl has been piping in crowd noise...they don’t want the tv audience hearing the language on the field.
Da nfl be progressive yo.
How about turning off the TV and play with the grandkids. . .better yet listen to https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Rev.1 and find out what is going these days and plan to share. You even get a blessing as is mentioned in Chapter 1.
What a racist! So only blacks can represent blacks, according to this idiot.
The piped in crowd noise is not loud enough you can still hear 4 letter words.
I don’t watch the NFL anymore, but as bad as this guy sounds he’s way better than any female announcer including the sideline whores.
I like having guys who have been successful players describe the games. I can see what is happening, I want to know why, which is why Romo is must listen, regardless of who is playing.
This is typical of young foolish writers. They look at comments from an article, expecting to see racism and they see racism. They believe the comment section of the article reflects the general population of the consumers of the article. It is a huge fallacy in reporting. 99.55 of the people who watched the game Talib called never posted about it. Most wouldn’t even know how.
Clint Bowyer will be in the booth next year. He will do a great job, and will definitely keep the fans amused with his calling the race as he sees it.
Keep listening...you might hear that 6 letter word.
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