annoying announcer habits

[jdl22]

Watching a replay of the tour de france and Bob Roll has reminded me of a couple annoying habits of announcers. Feel free to add your own but here are a couple that make me want to change the channel even if I really wanted to watch what's on.

1. Overpronouncing foreign names. This is most common with Spanish but this tour Roll has brutalised French, Italian, Catalan and probably German. What I'm talking about here is attempting to pronounce the word with a thick accent as if they're speaking that language. Often this is accompanied with a short pause before pronouncing the name/place because the announcer has to prepare his mouth to "change languages." What makes this especially bad is that the announcers normally can't pronounce the words correctly that they are overemphasizing. It's basically the announcer version of old people trying to sound cool by attempting to use teenage slang.

2. Being huge fanboys of whatever athlete/team is out there. Bob Roll has his head so far up Lance's ass it's unbelievable. This is a bigger problem for local announcers. I hate the local announcers for Oregon games on tv because they are so biased it's unbelievable. An Oregon player will absolutely hammer a shooter and the announcers without fail will say something like "I didn't see much contact there, that could have gone either way" if the foul is clear but not ridiculously obvious they'll say they didn't see any foul.