They'll figure out it's not the announcers that people don't like - it's the players...
The streaming wars have come for professional football. Amazon spent the better part of 12 months backing up the Brinks trucks to try to lure anyone and everyone away from the traditional NFL broadcasters to prop up its new Thursday Night Football vehicle – ultimately landing Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit for a reported $24m per year combined.
And while Amazon was expected to be the great disruptor in the broadcasting arms race, it’s at one of the traditional networks that the merry-go-round has had its most transformative effect. ESPN pinched Joe Buck and Troy Aikman from Fox, handing over a Friday night college football game for the rights to pay the duo in excess of $100m over five years to rejuvenate its flagging Monday Night Football brand. Good luck with that.
Viewership for NFL football is down the toilet. No matter who's calling the games, nobody's watching because we're all sick to tears of these over-priced, over-pampered, over-tattooed showoffs. It's just that simple.
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I don't watch professional sports anymore. But whoever is doing the announcing on anything has got to be better than Gary "master of the obvious" Carter.
ReplyDeleteWorse yet is Danica Patrick in NASCAR broadcast booth. I get it FOX is trying to get WOKE, no successful black or LGBQ drivers the choices are limited.
ReplyDeleteSo, if I'm not mistaken, if you are a 'tackle' and you tackle someone, why are dancing around after you do it? It's yer fuckin' job. Get back to work...
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