I’ve seen so many people bitching about Joe Buck and Chris Colinsworth, but I honestly don’t even notice the announcer during the game. It’s just like “Oh, this helpful person is telling me stuff about the game I’m already watching, but I don’t care who you are.”
What’s the difference between a good and bad announcer?
Announcers are like bass players in a band. If you don’t notice them it means they are doing their job and doing it well.
"Oh, this helpful person is telling me stuff about the game I’m already watching
The bad ones talk about other things too often. Or state blatantly false information. Or talk when they should be quiet/sit silently when they should be talking.
announcers who won’t shut up during big moments are the fucking worst. Also, you really heavily on announcers in the experience of watching so having a senile guy confusingly babbling (al micheals) as a play unfolds makes the game borderline unwatchable
Anyone bitching about Buck or Collinsworth is just doing it for the sake of doing it.
Now Vilma on the other hand…
“What a play by Mahomes”
Chris, he’s not even on the field
Ah yes but by throwing that interception he allowed his defence to get a pick 6 at midfield. If he didn’t throw that interception he wouldn’t have given the defence a chance to get one of their own
I will fight anyone who says anything negative about Joe Buck
and I don’t really understand the Collinsworth hate either. he’s pretty funny, and he gets really excited about good football which is great
the only announcer who is so bad to me that I actually notice (and thus care) is Mark Sanchez. dude just comes across as so “know-it-all” and he never, ever, ever shuts up lol
I think with Collinsworth it’s that he loves certain players and gushes over them even when they’re not playing in the game he’s working. I don’t mind it myself that much because I like that he gets excited, but I can understand why people might get tired of hearing a play be called ‘Mahomesian’ when it’s like Cardinals-Buccaneers.
I stumbled across the 2010 matchup between the Bills and Ravens on YouTube yesterday and watched the whole thing cause I’m a degenerate. And by god the announcers are horrible.
I watched that game in 2010 and I don’t remember the announcing being that bad but I also know a lot more about football than I did then. Announcers are supposed to bring a combination of energy and knowledge to the game otherwise there wouldn’t be a point to them being there. Most announcing crews are fine, but the bad ones can really suck the life out of a broadcast. Conversely, the great crews can make games so much better than they actually are.
It is basically infotainment. Good announcers are entertaining and informative and bring a good blend of the two.
Joe Buck has gotten a lot better in the last few years once he and Aikman stopped giving a shit about being buttoned up all the time and let some of their actual personalities out.
Colinsworth used to be okay as an average announcer but he has gone all in with the PFF shilling a decade ago, he is basically white noise now. Not good or bad really.
Used to love Romo but he has been phoning it in the last few years. Still better than Phil Simms was in his later years but not nearly as good as he was in his prime.
Will be excited to see how Brady fares.
Honest answer….a lot of times the gripes are the announcer doing the same thing. The same trope over and over again.
Collinsworth stands out as the worst at it these days. It just wore out a long time ago. Romo might be the best instance of something that worked so well when he (recently) started announcing, but has gone completely the other way.
People get sick of hearing the same damn thing. If you don’t really notice the announcers during the game then that’s a skill that I’m sure many of us wish we could cultivate. Feel blessed.
“The Cowboys would have won if I was announcing.” Troy Aikman on Tony Romo announcing the Cowboys playoff game.
Most PxP announcers should be locked in a room for 8 hours and be required to watch/listen to a highlight reel of peak Pat Summerall during his CBS years in the 80s. The epitome of “less is more”. He was the master of it.
“Simms… Bavaro… (pause)… touchdown!”
Can anyone else not even relate to what the people in here are saying? I listen to what they have to say in a nonjudgmental way and . . . that’s that. I don’t get mad about it or lose sleep about the inconsequential words of football analysts.
Like you OP, they’re just simply background noise. I truly don’t mean this in a holier-than-thou way either.
The only time I was off-put by one was when Romo started singing randomly and I could feel it make Nantz cringe. Romo is a little eccentric. As long as they’re saying something football related, then I, for the most part, won’t notice it.
The people complaining about announcers being passionate over players are being silly. It’s quite literally in their job descriptions to be passionate.
“Now here’s a guy that doesn’t even notice the announcers during the game” - Chris Collinsworth probably
With you bud, some peoples lives are so miserable all they have going for them is running to reddit to complain about the guys narrating the game. It is wild.
It just comes down to the relative amount of knobslobbering.