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Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:18 pm
by Jeff23
I love Dan Dierdorf... and Greg Gumble is alright too.


Joe Bucks ruins every game for me though. I hate that guy.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:30 am
by Todd3
Jeff23 wrote:Joe Bucks ruins every game for me though. I hate that guy.


:lol:

I like Jim Nantz and Phil Sims the best. Michaels/Collinsworth prob 2nd. Dan Dierdorf is good too.

No offense seeing you're a Ravens fan, but Brian Billick gets on my nerves a lot. It seems like everything he says is just him trying to make himself sound smarter.

On Buck, listen to his call of maybe the greatest catch of the season. He sounds like he's calling a foul ball in baseball. No effort or passion at all in any of his play calls.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAkmxoWvHjc[/youtube]

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:49 am
by Icness
I love Dierdorf. I try to listen to radio feeds instead of TV but I'll tune in the TV feed if it's Dierdorf or Tim Ryan. Thank God Gus Johnson is off the rotation, I'd rather listen to Barry Manilow sing over the game than Johnson screaming orgasmically on every three yard swing pass.

I like Brian Billick but then again I don't have a problem with him thinking he's smarter than everyone. Because he is...

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:00 am
by Celtics_Champs
Gus gets one college game a week on FX. Seems like a downgrade.

I really like Al Michaels and Collinsworth still.

Kevin Harlan (?) and Boomer Esiason on Westwood one are always a good listen.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:40 am
by trwi7
Al Michaels is terrible. I like Troy Aikman, too bad he's paired with Joe Buck. Brian Billick is good as Icness said. I like Thom Brennaman.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:21 pm
by Jeff23
Todd3 wrote:
Jeff23 wrote:Joe Bucks ruins every game for me though. I hate that guy.


:lol:

No offense seeing you're a Ravens fan, but Brian Billick gets on my nerves a lot. It seems like everything he says is just him trying to make himself sound smarter.



I dont like Brian Billick that much either. I like his analysis and the dude really knows football, but he can be annoying at times.

and lol at the Megatron call by the one and only joe freaking buck. This one is even worse [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMJkZpid8AE[/youtube]



and oh yeah, Kevin Harlan is awesome indeed.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:14 pm
by Todd3
^LMAO.

One thing I noticed in both is Aikman chuckles after both Buck's calls, as if he's hearing the same we hear and is laughing about it to himself.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 10:19 pm
by Todd3
Icness wrote:I like Brian Billick but then again I don't have a problem with him thinking he's smarter than everyone. Because he is...


Don't get me wrong, I have great respect for Billick as a coach and football mind, I meant more that he tries to make every play about himself and it can distract from the game sometimes. He admits to having a huge ego, and I cant hate someone for that, just makes his games hard to follow sometimes as a fan.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:09 pm
by vincecarter4pres
Anything with Ian Eagle or Gus Johnson wins it for me.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:11 pm
by Jeff23
vincecarter4pres wrote:Anything with Ian Eagle


just because he does the nets games...

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 7:40 pm
by Jeff23
I hate the NBC announcing crew... freaking steeler homers.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:02 pm
by Bank Shot
Jeff23 wrote:
Todd3 wrote:
Jeff23 wrote:Joe Bucks ruins every game for me though. I hate that guy.


:lol:

No offense seeing you're a Ravens fan, but Brian Billick gets on my nerves a lot. It seems like everything he says is just him trying to make himself sound smarter.



I dont like Brian Billick that much either. I like his analysis and the dude really knows football, but he can be annoying at times.

and lol at the Megatron call by the one and only joe freaking buck. This one is even worse [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMJkZpid8AE[/youtube]


and oh yeah, Kevin Harlan is awesome indeed.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNUkUCknT90&feature=related[/youtube]

This is his call on arguably the greatest play of all-time :lol:

I would have paid money to have had Gus Johnson on that call. The world may have ended.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:21 am
by Roger Murdock
Joe Buck is the worst. I like Gus Johnson if the game is exciting.

But Jaws and Gruden are the best.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:28 am
by trwi7
Gruden is terrible.

Let me tell ya something about this guy. This guy here is a good football player. A great football player.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 7:01 pm
by Jeff23
I love Gruden also, dude says what he thinks and calls out the refs or even the league when necessary. I love that he bashes the league and the refs.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Fri Dec 2, 2011 9:17 am
by Triple M
I don't mind Joe Buck but I rarely watch Fox games.
My fav are the CBS guys except for Fouts, because it seems like my Titans always lose when he does the game.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Sat Dec 3, 2011 2:28 am
by wetsthebed
Cris Collinsworth makes me wanna slit my throat.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Sat Dec 3, 2011 4:29 am
by Ugly0598
Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf are the best announcers to me. Honorable mentions to Ian Eagle, Kevin Harlan, Marv Albert as well.

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Mon Dec 5, 2011 3:33 am
by CJ_18
I actually love Joe Buck haha i love his choice of words almost all the time.. his voice is very serious sounding and he uses phrases that make games sound more spectacle-ish if you know what i mean

i cant think of a good football call from recently but this is one of my favourite calls of all time in one of the biggest moments in maybe sports history, certaintly of the past decade:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYE1YcRSsmw[/youtube]

Re: Favorite commentating-crew?

Posted: Mon Dec 5, 2011 9:26 pm
by Bay_Areas_Finest
wetsthebed wrote:Cris Collinsworth makes me wanna slit my throat.


Why? :-?

I like the guy. I also feel like he knows what he's talking about most of the time.