Post by heathwaldrop on Sept 16, 2006 18:44:15 GMT -6
I'm listening to the radio stream of the Arkansas Tech-West Georgia game, but I can't get the ATU stream to work so I had to listen to West Georgia's broadcast.
These guys are hardly better than cheerleaders in the booth. One guy was complaining about a holding call: "It didn't affect the play, I don't understand that." Holding is an infraction wherever and whenever it happens. (I only wish that pass interference was treated in the same manner...who is to say what is and what is not a "catchable pass"?)
About a failed fourth-down try inside the ATU 1 yard line: "Oh give me a break, the ball is spotted an inch from the goal line!" (As if that was close enough, just give it to them! What is this, an non-competitive golf game?)
And finally, both guys decided to talk down about UAM and SAU's campuses. Play-by-play guy called it "scenic Monticello," adding "I call it 'scenic' because there's a big red barn on campus, and no I am not kidding [snicker snicker]." Then adds "And Magnolia has a silo!!! They'd better not tear those down or we'd never find the campuses."
This isn't the kind of on-air behavior that is becoming of professional broadcasters. Granted neither Monticello nor Magnolia are the best places in the world, but you just don't speak like that during a game broadcast.
Finally at one point the play-by-play guy says of ATU's coaches and team, "They're kneeling the ball...that's the smartest thing that we've seen from them today."
These guys are hardly better than cheerleaders in the booth. One guy was complaining about a holding call: "It didn't affect the play, I don't understand that." Holding is an infraction wherever and whenever it happens. (I only wish that pass interference was treated in the same manner...who is to say what is and what is not a "catchable pass"?)
About a failed fourth-down try inside the ATU 1 yard line: "Oh give me a break, the ball is spotted an inch from the goal line!" (As if that was close enough, just give it to them! What is this, an non-competitive golf game?)
And finally, both guys decided to talk down about UAM and SAU's campuses. Play-by-play guy called it "scenic Monticello," adding "I call it 'scenic' because there's a big red barn on campus, and no I am not kidding [snicker snicker]." Then adds "And Magnolia has a silo!!! They'd better not tear those down or we'd never find the campuses."
This isn't the kind of on-air behavior that is becoming of professional broadcasters. Granted neither Monticello nor Magnolia are the best places in the world, but you just don't speak like that during a game broadcast.
Finally at one point the play-by-play guy says of ATU's coaches and team, "They're kneeling the ball...that's the smartest thing that we've seen from them today."
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