Cut & pasted. Hope you don't mind:
1. Gutless announcers that won't take a stand on a point of controversy.
**completely annoying. Particularly the baseball announcers who you have to listen to all season long. All this summer, The Oriole's Palmer and Reghi wouldn't say a thing about owners/players and the strike. Typical quote, "the ones who really get hurt here are the fans. We all hope they can work out their differences before the deadline."
2. Commercials during the final two minutes of a football game.
**They gotta pay the bills. Its annoying, but I completely expect it.
3. Networks failing to show the playing of the National Anthem.
**Can't say I feel a need to see this.
4. Brainless bimbo announcers.
**Right on. Here's a message to you hard-up chumps who love these girls: buy a Hustler, rub one out before the pre-game starts, and give us someone who knows something about football.
5. Related to the previous point -- why are NFL head coaches interviewed at halftime?
**Totally moronic.
6. Pre-game show ego wars.
**Mildly entertaining for about the first 5 minutes of week 1. Then that's it. Sometimes when two guys don't like each other it can get good (Marino and Boomer, e.g.)
7. Coors Light commercials.
**How about those commercials where a guy is telling a dumb story in flashback fashion.
8. Warm, Fuzzy Pre-Game and Halftime Personality Features.
**Hate 'em. Hate 'em during the Olympics, and moreso during football. Who do they think their audience is? I'd usually like more X's and O's. That show on ESPN with Jaworski and Merril Hoge is interesting sometimes because they actually show game film. They'll break down a cover two, or clearly show a QB missing open receivers down field that you don't get on thet network feeds. Show that as a game preview instead of Adam Vinatieri's new puppy.
9. Not keeping up-to-date on the other NFL scores.
**Obviously a pet peeve for all of us gamblers. When are they going to admit that people actually bet on football? And NEVER sign off for the day without giving us a recap of scores.
10. Finally, what really irks me are these predication segments on CBS and FOX on the pre-game show, where the "experts" pick the winners of the games -- without the pointspread.
**Ties back in with not admitting betting happens. Berman used to pick ATS on ESPN as Swami, if I recall correctly. They pick on HBO SU, too. Totally stupid way of picking games. It's like the secretaries' office pool or something.
Thanks for the good reading.
TheShrimp
1. Gutless announcers that won't take a stand on a point of controversy.
**completely annoying. Particularly the baseball announcers who you have to listen to all season long. All this summer, The Oriole's Palmer and Reghi wouldn't say a thing about owners/players and the strike. Typical quote, "the ones who really get hurt here are the fans. We all hope they can work out their differences before the deadline."
2. Commercials during the final two minutes of a football game.
**They gotta pay the bills. Its annoying, but I completely expect it.
3. Networks failing to show the playing of the National Anthem.
**Can't say I feel a need to see this.
4. Brainless bimbo announcers.
**Right on. Here's a message to you hard-up chumps who love these girls: buy a Hustler, rub one out before the pre-game starts, and give us someone who knows something about football.
5. Related to the previous point -- why are NFL head coaches interviewed at halftime?
**Totally moronic.
6. Pre-game show ego wars.
**Mildly entertaining for about the first 5 minutes of week 1. Then that's it. Sometimes when two guys don't like each other it can get good (Marino and Boomer, e.g.)
7. Coors Light commercials.
**How about those commercials where a guy is telling a dumb story in flashback fashion.
8. Warm, Fuzzy Pre-Game and Halftime Personality Features.
**Hate 'em. Hate 'em during the Olympics, and moreso during football. Who do they think their audience is? I'd usually like more X's and O's. That show on ESPN with Jaworski and Merril Hoge is interesting sometimes because they actually show game film. They'll break down a cover two, or clearly show a QB missing open receivers down field that you don't get on thet network feeds. Show that as a game preview instead of Adam Vinatieri's new puppy.
9. Not keeping up-to-date on the other NFL scores.
**Obviously a pet peeve for all of us gamblers. When are they going to admit that people actually bet on football? And NEVER sign off for the day without giving us a recap of scores.
10. Finally, what really irks me are these predication segments on CBS and FOX on the pre-game show, where the "experts" pick the winners of the games -- without the pointspread.
**Ties back in with not admitting betting happens. Berman used to pick ATS on ESPN as Swami, if I recall correctly. They pick on HBO SU, too. Totally stupid way of picking games. It's like the secretaries' office pool or something.
Thanks for the good reading.
TheShrimp
