Sports Announcer Pet Peeves

[Boris]

I think you have a future in broadcasting.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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This isn't really about announcers, though they say it as well, but why do the refs say "prior to the snap..false start." No kidding? Are they sure it wasn't after the snap?

craig

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Worse is when the refs feel the need to explain the call in detail. Just [censored] say offside, 5 yards, and be done with it.

[PhatTBoll]

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This isn't really about announcers, though they say it as well, but why do the refs say "prior to the snap..false start." No kidding? Are they sure it wasn't after the snap?

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They do this to justify why they are running in and stopping a play that is going on.

[anisotropy]

Chris Collinsworth is the worst. And it's not even close.

[jpg777]

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Am I the only one here who cannot stand Tim McCarver?

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He was the world's worst announcer when he did Met games. I don't know how the hell he keeps his job.

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"Four second differential between the shot clock and the game clock, Bob."

It's not fu<font color="orange"></font>cking calculus, it's a DIFFERENCE! SUBTRACTION YOU DICKHEADS!

NT

[deacsoft]

My biggest is (without a single doubt) how they never say anything until after it happens.

example: Leonard Davis (an offensive tackle for Arizona (NFL)) recoveres a fumble durring their game against the Giants. It may have been the first of his career but anyone how is announcing the game will say something like "Oh, every team has to have a guy like Leonard Davis. Everytime there's fumble that big guy is all over it".

example: Reece Gaines a PG for the Rockets (NBA) is averaging .03 steals per game. He is in the right place when Jason Kidd loses the handle after being fouled (not called) and Reece Gaines has a key steal at the end of a game to seal a victory. Announcer then says something like "You have got to hand the game ball to Reece Gaines. This guys presence of court and game awareness sealed the victory for Houston tonight. He's a great defensive player and maybe should have played more than a total of 11 minutes this season".

I can't stand that. Even if they mention a player several times durring the course of a game they won't say anything about how they play until it happens. If a player drains a 3; he's suddenly a great shooter. If a player makes a hard tackle; he's suddenly a big hard hitting player.

And so on, and so on.

[jstnrgrs]

I would prefer it if they would say the visiting score first. That way if they say the score is 21-17, you know who is winning (not the same as 17-21).

[Riverman]

Whenever a golfer is called "courageous."

D-Day was courageous. Hitting a little white ball is not.

[CrazyEyez]

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"Four second differential between the shot clock and the game clock, Bob."

It's not fu<font color="orange"></font>cking calculus, it's a DIFFERENCE! SUBTRACTION YOU DICKHEADS!

NT

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But can you say that the shot clock is integral to the game?