On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote:
> No mention of Joe Buck? I remember Pam Ward was awful doing football on > ESPN. > There was a guy who did the Raiders games in the 1980s when NBC had the > AFC whose voice would drift into this monotone like he was heavily > medicated. > Jim Lampley did some play by play but he was mostly a studio guy. > Buck has his annoying tendencies but that should not qualify him as among the worst. My standard for that would be someone who does not have booth experience and freezes or stammers, or someone who does not know the sport or players well. The only examples that come to mind for me are Jim Ross calling the XFL and Bob Prince once called a Penguins game on TV. My pick of Ross is no reflection on his work in wrestling - it became clear in the XFL games he did with Jerry Lawler that he never trained for football. Bob Prince was a legendary radio voice of the Pirates and they let him go in 1975 or 1976. The Penguins (not a very good or popular team then) had a deal to show games on a UHF station (which is now a Sinclair/FOX affiliate). I don't know how much prep time Prince got but it was clear he knew nothing about the game he was calling. I don't remember if he did more than one game. Which is another thing about figuring out a worst play-by-play announcer: they won't last long enough on the air to be noticed. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
