MediaWatchBlog - MWB Doesn't Pick: The entire MNF Commentating Team

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

MWB Doesn't Pick: The entire MNF Commentating Team

So this year, Monday Night Football went to ESPN. As annoying as John Madden can be, holding his hand up so you can see his Super Bowl rings, endlessly talking about "momentum", and Al Michaels, John's seeming lapdog, eesh, I was happy to learn they would not be the MNF commentators when it went to ESPN. Alas, as Granny always said, be careful what you ask for. The MNF commentating on ESPN this season is worse than bad. It's horrible. The endless drivel about some game that happened 20 years ago...Last night: "Remember that game in 1986?" And for 99% of the people watching, NO, they DON'T remember some random game from 20 years ago. Oh, but it gets much worse... They went on to somehow call the "front line" of some basketball team the "best" front line in basketball. Then, one of the idiots said, "Oh, to segue..." then began speaking about the football game they were supposed to be commenting on in the first place! iGanja properly noted something along the lines of, "You idiot! the segue was your random claptrap on basketball!" Oh, but it gets much worse... At some point, the weenie little guy in the middle of this commentating team with an 80 combined IQ said, do I dare try to remember this verbatim? It was so fucking random I can't even recall what analogy he was making...but it was something like, "It's like Shirley Maclaine in [enter name of some fucking Broadway musical here] on Broadway." Huh? I think he was talking about the Tom Brady, and how reliable he is. But shit man, come ON! There isn't a straight guy outside New York City who wants to hear one lick about Broadway musicals! And to compare one of the best (and hottest and manliest) football players to an old superstitious hag like Shirley Maclaine, WTF!!!!! I was speechless... As much as we tried to fiddle with turning off this speaker, moving the balance, you name it, we could not silence these buffoons and still hear the game so we were stuck. Note to Monday Night Football at ESPN: FIRE THESE GUYS NOW! The games have sucked enough...do we have to hear lame commentary by three ugly guys, too? Pleeeeeze!

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:38:17 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

Comments [11] -

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:57:06 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

Madden is a god! ...and I'll be havin' words wit anyone sez otherwise!

iganja

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:37:39 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

those guys do suck

fruit

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:34:29 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

Well, let's have 'em! This wit sez udderwize!

michela

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:43:30 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

I agree, that guy who made the comparison to Shirley Maclaine has a serious man-crush on Tom Brady. Not that I blame him, Tom Brady is 100% babelicious and has 3 Super Bowl rings, but it did make me feel a little squeemish to hear some guy go on and on about how amazing Tom is and how he's good looking too. Yikes. I say bring back Dennis Miller!

Marla

Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:29:17 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

sad but true

jjames

Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:31:01 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

How about John Kerry? He should be good for about 5 outrageous/elitist comments per game.

Marla

Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:13:36 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

OMG, I can hear it already:
"Now, that was a really stupid play by the quarterback. I think the Republicans must have written that play. I mean dear god,did you see that dumb pass? That was a play from the right wing handbook if I've ever seen one. And how about those sharp defensive linemen intercepting that pass. They are Democrats, I can assure you."

michela

Thursday, November 02, 2006 2:33:09 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

you're not kidding; the "weenie guy in the middle" is more gay than all the flitting dudes on tlc put together

tcbyer

Thursday, November 02, 2006 4:14:03 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

This post wasn't a jab at gay people. Heck, I love what the gay community has done with North Park in San Diego (they've really jazzed up a run-down neighborhood:) ).

But it is interesting that weenie guy in the middle is so obviously frou frou, and the typical MNF audience isn't at all. Yeah yeah that's a stereotype and there are gay guys who like football, but let's be real; of the small percent of the population who is gay--that's estimated around 8% by the way--less than half of THAT watch MNF, I'd guess. So they're really, REALLY not hitting a target audience by comparing hot studmonster Tom Brady to an old lady in a Broadway musical. Heck, even the gay guys who WERE watching were probably wondering, WTF? After all, they surely find him as hot as we chicklets do...

michela

Thursday, November 02, 2006 8:05:36 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

I stand by my previous comment, bring back Dennis Miller!

Marla

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 10:25:31 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

did you see (and hear) the sunday night (11/19) game - Chargers v Broncos? Not only a game for the ages, and one the MNF would cream there fucking jeans over, but called by none other then my favorite ABC (now NBC) crew of Al Michaels and John Madden! Go choke yourselves ESPN; you don't mess with hall of famers!

oh, i ganja

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