On Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 12:57:12 PM UTC-4, Tom Wolper wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Steve Timko <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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. > > Just a note: Ross did have some experience with football announcing prior to the XFL. He called the Atlanta Falcons for one season on the radio in 1992 back when he was still the lead announcer for WCW.
I throw into this pile former UFC announcer Mike Goldberg's disastrous short lived stint for the NFL on FOX. Goldberg was lambasted for misidentifying players and coaches while announcing. In which, Goldberg took to Twitter to bitch at angry fans which is never a good sign. http://awfulannouncing.com/2014/mike-goldberg-handle-criticism-well-nfl-fox-debut.html Greg -- -- 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.
