Joe Theismann

[jaybird]

Good move. I can't stand to listen to Theismann. He may be the biggest reason that I have started watching games with the volume down! He's worse than Howard!
McCarver should be next, followed by Harrelson. Personally, I like Joe Morgan, though at times he does go on too long about elementary matters.
Jack Buck was good and even Harry Carey was tolerable (in his early years), but what we need is the next Dizzy Dean!

[bluezebra]

Originally Posted by jaybird

Good move. I can't stand to listen to Theismann. He may be the biggest reason that I have started watching games with the volume down! He's worse than Howard!
McCarver should be next, followed by Harrelson. Personally, I like Joe Morgan, though at times he does go on too long about elementary matters.
Jack Buck was good and even Harry Carey was tolerable (in his early years), but what we need is the next Dizzy Dean!

Harry Carey was an actor. Harry Caray was a drunken slob, who spent more time telling about who ate at his restaurant the previous night, than announcing the game. When I watched the Cubs games, I would turn down the volume, or if the game was on the other team's channel, I'd watch that one. Sometimes he didn't know who was at bat, or who the Cubs were playing. He was booted out of St. Louis for doing something no decent person would do. To see his statue in front of Wrigley field, makes me sick.

Bob

[jaybird]

Originally Posted by bluezebra

Harry Carey was an actor. Harry Caray was a drunken slob, who spent more time telling about who ate at his restaurant the previous night, than announcing the game. When I watched the Cubs games, I would turn down the volume, or if the game was on the other team's channel, I'd watch that one. Sometimes he didn't know who was at bat, or who the Cubs were playing. He was booted out of St. Louis for doing something no decent person would do. To see his statue in front of Wrigley field, makes me sick.

Bob

No big argument here.
"...Harry Carey was tolerable (in his early years)..."
I was referring to the 60's with the Cardinals. Since I was young and loved the Cardinals, maybe I felt Harry was as grand as the Redbirds! As I grew older and not as naive, I realized what he was and was glad that he went to Chicago.

[earmitage]

Originally Posted by jaybird

Good move. I can't stand to listen to Theismann. He may be the biggest reason that I have started watching games with the volume down! He's worse than Howard!
McCarver should be next, followed by Harrelson. Personally, I like Joe Morgan, though at times he does go on too long about elementary matters.
Jack Buck was good and even Harry Carey was tolerable (in his early years), but what we need is the next Dizzy Dean!

If anyone should be removed from MNF it would be Kornheiser. I can't stand it when they put guys in the booth who have never played a minute on the field and are inserted as comic relief. I'd much rather have Theisman than Kornheiser any time. As to Cossell, you must be out of your gourd. Cossell was the biggest mouth ever in a booth. Thank God he has been gone for a long time.

[JasonTX]

I'm trying to figure out why they even need announcers at all. I'm much more entertained by the public address announcer. I say shut the TV guys off and give us the feed to the PA announcer.

[jaybird]

"I'm trying to figure out why they even need announcers at all. I'm much more entertained by the public address announcer. I say shut the TV guys off and give us the feed to the PA announcer."


Especially the guys at the Georgia HS game on the free kick FG!

[Bob M.]

Originally Posted by jaybird

...Especially the guys at the Georgia HS game on the free kick FG!

REPLY: But you have to admit, they were funnier than most of the sitcoms on TV these days!

[Jim D]

Originally Posted by JasonTX

I'm trying to figure out why they even need announcers at all. I'm much more entertained by the public address announcer. I say shut the TV guys off and give us the feed to the PA announcer.

NBC tried this once about 10 - 15 years ago for an end of the season game. No announcers, just the picture and an open mike for crowd noise. It was OK if you watched the game intently but, since most of us do other things while we watch at home, it didn't work very well.

[Forksref]

Originally Posted by earmitage

If anyone should be removed from MNF it would be Kornheiser. I can't stand it when they put guys in the booth who have never played a minute on the field and are inserted as comic relief. I'd much rather have Theisman than Kornheiser any time. As to Cossell, you must be out of your gourd. Cossell was the biggest mouth ever in a booth. Thank God he has been gone for a long time.

Cosell got old. Dandy Don was good. I used to turn the sound down on the TV and turn on the radio. Jack Buck and Hank Stram were the best pair ever to do sports!

[The Roamin' Umpire]

Originally Posted by Forksref

Cosell got old. Dandy Don was good. I used to turn the sound down on the TV and turn on the radio. Jack Buck and Hank Stram were the best pair ever to do sports!

I would do this for baseball sometimes, back when I bothered watching. Seaver and Rizzuto were occasionally entertaining, but John Sterling is definitely the man. (Don't much like Michael K, though. The color guy on the radio before him was good, but I can't for the life of me remember who it was right now.)