Announcers UF / aTm

[BeardoMSU]

if you didn't actually PLAY football (at some level) I have a hard time with your credibility

Dude, you do realize that the vast majority of people who watch, enjoy, and have opinions on the game of football (college and NFL) have never played a down of football....

[Leroy Jenkins]

Dude, you do realize that the vast majority of people who watch, enjoy, and have opinions on the game of football (college and NFL) have never played a down of football....

Well Im sorry for them... Dont put them on TV.

[BeardoMSU]

Well Im sorry for them... Dont put them on TV.

Ok, then. Maybe we shouldn't let them coach, too? Or even watch? Or write about it? Or have an opinion?


Sheesh...I bet films like Varsity Blues get you all hot and bothered about the good ole high school days.***

[Leroy Jenkins]

Ok, then. Maybe we shouldn't let them coach, too? Or even watch? Or write about it? Or have an opinion?

Look, if I was on QVC trying to sell you some control top pantyhose at 2:00am, and you had issues with my believeability, I wouldn't take issue with that. Don't be obtuse, I'm sure you get the concept even if you are too progressive to agree. Its cool.

This was fun....

[Dawg61]

Nowhere did I say they had to have played football before. I just prefer men commentators for a very manly sport. I'm fine if you disagree, but that's my opinion.

I don't care if men commentate ice skating or gymnastics, and if a woman said "men shouldn't commentate gymnastics or ice skating, it bothers me", I would give zero damns. I would take no offense to a woman saying that. So I'm not real sure why you take offense to me saying I think men should commentate footbal, and that I prefer that. That is not a knock on women, it's just a personal preference.

Ok, then. Maybe we shouldn't let them coach, too? Or even watch? Or write about it? Or have an opinion?


Sheesh...I bet films like Varsity Blues get you all hot and bothered about the good ole high school days.***

Here's the deal Beardo. Men have proven consistently to be better at announcing football games than women. That's not sexist that's fact. Now I don't believe the reason for this is because they have experience playing football I think the reason is because the ones that aren't handed a job because of their football experience are only there because they had to be better than every other announcer to get there. What I am saying is the best announcers make it to the best games to announce because they are better at announcing than the others but that hiring practice seems to be totally dead with ESPN. Basically the cream rises to the top but ESPN doesn't hire or promote like that. They give announcers jobs for other reasons besides being the best announcers. They apply this same hiring and promoting technique throughout the company and it goes back to what I said. ESPN is run by an extremely liberal CEO that wants to push his agenda and politics over making money. This is part of the issue with Hollywood right now and a big problem with the Harvey Weinstein type cases. Some in Hollywood want to normalize things that have never been normal in this country and they are starting to get called out for it.