Do Football Commentators Piss you Off?

Note: I have no interest in this game and am not a fan of either team.

Just watching MNF, 3rd qtr 1:20 to go, Smith fumbles, no body parts were down, Cincy challenges it, announcers say "it's an obvious fumble, blah blah blah"

Ref comes back, says call stands, and the announcers say NOTHING!!

I mean, what the fuck? Grow a pair, I would be saying "what is the point of instant replay if we're not even going to look at the video?"

Did I miss something? I mean, when there's a blatantly horrible call are announcers not allowed to say it like it is? When someone throws a horrible pass or caughs one up they don't hold back but when an official flat out blows a call they seem like they could care less. I'm sick and tired of the officials getting a free pass for making bad calls. Replay was supposed to fix the ineptitude, obviously it has not.

just happened, they're ripping into Billick for a play call but never the officials...

What you wrote didn't make sense so you should probably re write it, though I think I get what you meant.
-Smith (which team?) fumbles the ball but its not called a fumble, he's ruled down, but under the new rules the ball is picked up and play continues until someone is brought down, and then he was ruled down.

- Announcers say its a fumble, video evidence supports that easily.

-Ref comes back and has the play stand as down. Announcers go "okay"


I think it'd be better for the telecast but I don't necessarily have a problem with it. Announcers can get fined if they go to far, it's happened before.

yes, exactly what you said. I have to admit, they did rip into the back judge who made the poor offensive pass interference call on Heap late in the 4th.

There are a lot of sports commentators that I don't like but there are only two that really "piss me off": Dick EngBerg and Bill Walton

Tony Siragusa- I hate listening to him on the TV. Even watching him is worse.

The NFL controls it's image on all fronts including the commentators. To suggest poor officiating would be to suggest a failure on the part of the NFL.

Joe Buck can be anoying also

one thing that kinda irritated me the other night:

forget the exact situation, but it mighta been 3rd down, Ravens ball, 4th quarter when they had the lead.

anyway Mcnair drops back and throws the ball WAY over the head of a wide open receiver. Awful throw (of which he had many that game). Announcers start bashing billick for the play call, which obviously was very good, and never knock mcnair a single time despite having easily one of the worst games of his career.

basically, most announcers are just plagued with bad, results oriented thinking.

another thing that always erks me is that horrible players (by NFL standards) are never referred to as worse than 'average' or 'solid'. Even if they are they are just the bottom fillers on a bad team.

Radio broadcasts are always better than the TV broadcasts. Especially when it's your home teams broadcast. It helps when the announcers have actually seen the players play a few times.

Re: the ravens game, on the radio they weren't harsh of Billick at all, but they kept going on about how bad McNair looked and how much he was going to hate watching the film.

McNair is done. Kyle Boller is probably better than him at this point.

My problem with sports commentary (from both announcers and regular fans) is that people have no clue how much variance there is in sports. They oversimplify everything and regurgitate statements like "Player X is a choker and can't win the big one" or "Player Y is clutch, he just knows how to win." The reality is that these generalizations are usually based on a grand total of three or four games in a player's career and variance is the most likely reason why they have these reputations.

In almost every NFL game the inferior team will have at least a 10% chance of winning the game and it's usually much higher than that. Yet so many people act like they "know" which team will win a game, or a championship, and they're all full of shit.

" The xxxxxxx xxxxxxx WILL BEAT the yyyyyyyy yyyyyyyy, in the superbowl!"

(said before the preseason starts and the announcer, i believe, actually believes what he is saying)

head asplode