Discuss: The Worst Sportscasters
The merry pranksters over at Lawyers, Guns and Money have up a post discussing the Worst Sportscasters. The list looks too small to me, but I’ll throw in John Madden as my Worst Sportscaster. I’ll stipulate that the guy knows alot about football (and I’ll stipulate that I may be mistaken about this), but he yells at me. And I do take that personally — so I can’t listen or even watch the silly whiteboard play deconstruction. Why is it that alot of noise and lots of talking about pretty much nothing (punctuated with every cliche in the book) counts as highly paid commentary?
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Dennis Miller on Monday Night Football was an abomination against man, nature and football. He is also a painfully unfunny comedian.
I also don’t like Chris Collingsworth. (sp?)
Dennis Miller
Rush Limbaugh
Dick Vitale
I know some people like him, but Joe Buck annoyed the living crap out of me during the MLB playoffs and especially the World Series this year. Actually the entire World Series broadcast was pretty awful – if Buck doesn’t annoy you then surely Tim McCarver must.
I really wish that they would have separate audio streams for the broadcasts so that local people can hear their own broadcasters (Kalas et. al) while anyone outside a local market gets the national people.
Then again, I guess I could’ve just brought a radio into the room and turned down the volume on the TV.
Chris Berman.
He. Should. Just. S. T. F. U.
Agree with Mike about Chris Berman. John Madden does a great job, which is why he’s in such demand.
Deion Sanders pretty well sucks.
As a English Premiere League fan (football not throwball), I am blessed with very good play-by-play announcers and good commentators.
As far as throwball is concerned, I can’t stand Brent Chessburger and Mark May.
It might be sacrilege, but I think Troy Aikmen is one of the best.
You’re right nemski, being an Eagles fan as much as I despised Aikman when he was playing he actually does quite a nice job on the football broadcasts.
Then again as I’ve already expressed my disdain for Joe Buck, perhaps I really like Aikman because when he’s talking that means Buck isn’t…
It doesn’t get much worse than Steve Coates, who does “color” for the Flyers. He hollers like a pro wrestling announcer, and like Sarah Palin, has no idea where his sentences are going. I suspect his co-announcers, particularly the dignified Gary Dorhoefer, want to do to him what the Hanson Brothers did to Syracuse Bulldogs.
Chris Wheeler and his one-time student, Tim McCarver, are high up on the list for me. Both know baseball, which might be their undoing. I am interested in what they have to say, but both talk to me like I’ve never seen baseball before. Wheeler is so condescending it just sucks the life out of the room. I’ll watch someone drop a pop-up and Wheels will let out something like, “Well, to the average fan that looks like an easy play, but blah blah blah.” You know what, Wheels, it was an easy play!
I’m not a big Dick Stockton fan either, and Billy Packer makes my skin crawl.
I will, however, defend Dick Vitale. My wife can’t stand him, but I wish I could wake up every morning and be that excited about my job. His love affair with Duke and his unwavering support of coaches — even the slimebags who don’t deserve it — notwithstanding, I find his enthusiasm contagious.
Merril Reese, talk about being yelled at, I cannot stomach even one minute of an eagles radio broadcast. The man is worse than those car dealer pitch men on T.V.
Boomer Esiason. Close your mouth……AND….move your head……PLEASE!
I feel like I’m talking to one of the kids.