Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

I was at the game so I didn't have to listen to Cross but he is without a doubt one of the top 3 worst announcers in sports.

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

springs old mans name is ron. and cross is horrible, but i can tolerate enberg. and once you go high def, you never go back

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

Cross is by far the worst annoucer ever. He definately used, boo birds, jitterbug, kickstand, tripod, yeah...the list goes on...

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

everyone hates every announcer. i generally don't pay attention to them. how much announcing does CBS/Fox need besides the NFL? that's why they suck, there's only 16 days of work and NO ONE tunes in because of the announcers. Micheals is the best ever (miracle on ice, ali, etc etc - he's done EVERYTHING), but beyond that only aikman really comes to mind.

larry micheals is terrible and whoever wanted to hear riggins and doc instead - john riggins is okay, but not great. doc sucks on games (i've heard him do some college stuff).

jaws and dick vermeil are probably the best guys that aren't in a regular rotation. working for espn though, you won't see they very often at all.

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

I was a big fan of Verne Lundquist and Dan Fouts in the early 90's. Mike Patrick and Paul what's his name were good too.

College seems to have great announcers. Herbstreit, Fowler, Brent Musberger are all good. But for some reason announcers in the NFL suck out loud.

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

[quote=Beemnseven;222963]I was a big fan of Verne Lundquist and Dan Fouts in the early 90's. Mike Patrick and Paul what's his name were good too.

College seems to have great announcers. Herbstreit, Fowler, Brent Musberger are all good. But for some reason announcers in the NFL suck out loud.[/quote]

a lot of college have local announcers that care about the teams or are on espn(/abc), which can afford to hire TONS of full time people and give them other tasks in the off seasons.

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

[quote=Mc2guy;222633]You mean Sonny & Sam? Frank got booted for Larry. Frank, BTW was the best of the lot...too bad.

Sam has been incoherent since the late 70's...too many "lead with the helmet" tackles.[/quote]

Enburg needs to go back to the nursing home.


Cross is a skins hater. Like the rest of the talking head jerks that cover this league, Cross is a big guy on "you can't buy a championship", so he hates Snyder.

I like trading draft choices for proven players. Sure, buying vets is like buying a used car. With the exception that you know who owned the car and you know how it was used.

I hate Randy Cross! He is an ASS!

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

[QUOTE=Beemnseven;222963]I was a big fan of Verne Lundquist and Dan Fouts in the early 90's. Mike Patrick and Paul what's his name were good too.

College seems to have great announcers. Herbstreit, Fowler, Brent Musberger are all good. But for some reason announcers in the NFL suck out loud.[/QUOTE]
Lundquist still calls a great game, but I don't think CBS has him in the rotation on Sundays...if they do, I don't usually hear him. He usually does the big SEC game on Saturdays.

Mike Patrick and Mike Gottfried were great, until they were infiltrated by Joe Theismann and Paul Maguire. Mike Patrick is another one who calls a great game.

I can't stand Brent Musberger...not any more at least.

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

Musberger was great back in the day though on CBS.

"You're looking live at RFK Stadium"!

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

I was watching the 10 minute replay of the game On Demand yesterday. They use the radio broadcast for the commentary and I have to say that Sonny and Sam are just comical at this point.

On the jones-drew TD pass Curry Burns (#41) took a shot to the head and was on all fours for about 15 seconds before he finally got up. Sam starts yelling, "[I]Cooley was hurt on the play! Cooley got hurt trying to make the tackle! Cooley looks shaken up![/I]" Finally, after about the 5th time he said it, Sonny goes, [I]"Cooley doesn't play defense." [/I]He couldn't have sounded more disgusted with Sam.

It reminded me of something my grandmother might say.

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

On the jones-drew TD pass Curry Burns (#41) took a shot to the head and was on all fours for about 15 seconds before he finally got up. Sam starts yelling, "[I]Cooley was hurt on the play! Cooley got hurt trying to make the tackle! Cooley looks shaken up![/I]" Finally, after about the 5th time he said it, Sonny goes, [I]"Cooley doesn't play defense." [/I]He couldn't have sounded more disgusted with Sam.

It reminded me of something my grandmother might say.[/quote]


These OT games go way beyond Sam's bedtime (the nursing home has lights out at 6:30PM).

And to think he drives his car back to Middleburg after the game.

How much Wild Turkey will a Depends hold?

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

[QUOTE=61cad;223153]How much Wild Turkey will a Depends hold?[/QUOTE]
"Let's say this pitcher of iced tea represents a gallon of your feces."

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

This thread is funny as hell! I do like Troy Aikman, he actually seems balanced and insightful. Not a bunch of fluff.

The Enberg and Cross trashing is funny!!!

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

[QUOTE=12thMan;223170]This thread is funny as hell! I do like Troy Aikman, he actually seems balanced and insightful. Not a bunch of fluff.

The Enberg and Cross trashing is funny!!![/QUOTE]
I hate to admit it, but I also like aikman as an announcer. Liek you said, he's fair and not a cowgirls homer. Plus, he keeps trashing lavar this year and I kind of find that funny.

I feel like Fox has a couple of guys, whos' names I can never remember, who I absolutely can't stand. I think they all listen to tapes of old Madden games and just try to act and sound like him. They make the same dumb jokes about how much the o-linemen eat and how small the kicker is or whatever, and they all just sound like idiots. I really hate these people.

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

It always seems like CBS guys don't have much to say about NFC teams. They always seem lost whenever they actually have to provide some sort of analysis for a team that they're not used to covering. That never ceases to amaze me as I believe they have about a week to do their homework. Even if they have 2 days, the Skins had only played 3 games this season, it wouldn't have been that difficult to add some insight to the game. All that said, I do enjoy listening to Randy Cross on Sirius, I may not agree with him all the time, but at least he's firm in his analysis.

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Aikman is good. Like AMD said, he's not a homer. That's what I like the most about him.

You know who I think would be interesting in the booth, post retirement, is Mark Brunell. He has that telegenic look and well spoken.

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

[quote=jdlea;223178]It always seems like CBS guys don't have much to say about NFC teams. They always seem lost whenever they actually have to provide some sort of analysis for a team that they're not used to covering. That never ceases to amaze me as I believe they have about a week to do their homework. Even if they have 2 days, the Skins had only played 3 games this season, it wouldn't have been that difficult to add some insight to the game. All that said, I do enjoy listening to Randy Cross on Sirius, I may not agree with him all the time, but at least he's firm in his analysis.[/quote]


During the pre-season, Cross had the skins written off. I listen to his lame ass on Sirius and he flip-flops like carp on hot pavement!

The NFL on Sirius is broadcasted out of New York.

I have a 3 hour commute everyday and listening to these guys make me sick. All the shows are hosted by Giants fans or Tiki Barbar.

They should call the channel "all Giants all the time".

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You know who I think would be interesting in the booth, post retirement, is Mark Brunell. He has that telegenic look and well spoken.[/quote]

Did you hear Randy Thomas in the booth with Sonny, Sam and Larry during the Tampa playoff game?

Randy knows his stuff!

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[quote=61cad;223185]
I have a 3 hour commute everyday and listening to these guys make me sick. All the shows are hosted by Giants fans or Tiki Barber.
[/quote]

tiki's not a giant's fan :confused:

j/k

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

[quote=That Guy;223192]tiki's not a giant's fan :confused:

j/k[/quote]

Nope he's a player!

But I guess he could be fan

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

[QUOTE=61cad;223185]During the pre-season, Cross had the skins written off. I listen to his lame ass on Sirius and he flip-flops like carp on hot pavement!

The NFL on Sirius is broadcasted out of New York.

I have a 3 hour commute everyday and listening to these guys make me sick. All the shows are hosted by Giants fans or Tiki Barbar.

They should call the channel "all Giants all the time".[/QUOTE]

3 hours each way?!

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

[quote=TAFKAS;223195]3 hours each way?![/quote]

1.5 each way x 2 = 3

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

Don't know, the bar didn't have the sound on for this game.

Re: How bad were Dick Enberg and Randy Cross?
 

I liken the announcers in football today to the lack of talented pitchers in baseball. There are so few that do it well that it is all just watered down. There are only a few who do it well. The rest are so much worse and feel they have to fill in dead air with inane banter. Who tunes into a football game hoping for a boring game? Cross is horrible on the radio and just as horrible on TV. I miss Pat Summerall and the old school guys.