Larry, Sonny, and Sam- the radio trio must go

[Hog1]

Well......Sam is getting a little long in the tooth...or maybe to many years in the league before a concussion rule?

[ArtMonkDrillz]

12th, I was in the same boat as you. I listened to the whole game and it was painful to hear. To be completely honest I didn't actually mind Larry Michael all that much as far as his play-by-play calling goes but Sam and Sonny are terrible.
Every time Sam says a player is short of a first down you just KNOW that he actually got it by a full yard and vice versa. Sonny sucks too but not nearly as much. I'm all for tradition and whatever but it's time for them to go.

[Longtimefan]

It's safe to say the show has lost much of it's creativity and luster, some due to ever expanding technology, complacency and a reduced listening audience. May be a refresh is in order.

[Slingin Sammy 33]

Originally Posted by GMScud

And if so, who would you pick to replace them?

GMScud, SmootSmack & Slingin Sammy 33. SS, get on that please

[SBXVII]

I find it funny how ( I presume) all the young fans seem to dislike the current announcers and want someone new, but when the radio puts someone new in there all the older fans want Sonny, Sam, Frank.

I think I fall under the older fan.... can we bring back Howard Cosell as our TV anouncer also?

[mlmpetert]

I love listening to Sonny Sam and Larry. If my cable wasnt delayed i would watch the game and listen to them call the game, like you used to be able to.

[jack406]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

I love listening to Sonny Sam and Larry. If my cable wasnt delayed i would watch the game and listen to them call the game, like you used to be able to.

There is an app for the iPAD (iRadio or something like that) that allows you to listen to Sonny and Sam and to slow down their broadcast to match it with HD cable. It works great until the first radio commercial. For some dumb reason everytime Sonny and Sam go to commercial they change their timing. Sometimes faster sometimes slower, but you have to resynch. If their crack technical team wouldn't do this we could easily "turn down the TV and watch the game and listen to Sonny and Sam". I still think they are better than many of the announcers we get on TV for the games.

[WilbursHomie]

If Brent Musburger was doing the games I wouldn't even be bothered by how bad we suck. His voice is like Velvet and silk.

[BDBohnzie]

Sam should have been replaced a few years ago, as he's steadily declined over that period of time. Sonny has been able to keep him in line until this season, when it's been pretty bad. The Redskins respected these 2 gentlemen and kept them together, but I think it's time for both of them to ride off into the sunset. I don't see a future with Sonny and no Sam, so I imagine that this could be their curtain call this season.

Larry Michael is no Frank Herzog, but he's adequate. Just not sure who you would get to replace Sonny and Sam. Is Jake still doing radio work for ESPN 980? I know he was doing post game shows for a while.

[firstdown]

I'm floored at how many of you here actually could have watched the game and choose to do other things and listen to it on the radio. Thats like watching a porn when you could actually be getting laid.

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by firstdown

I'm floored at how many of you here actually could have watched the game and choose to do other things and listen to it on the radio. Thats like watching a porn when you could actually be getting laid.

Please. Watching this disaster of a team doesn't remotely resemble anything as fun as watching porn or getting laid.

[Player_HTTR]

I remember how painful it was to listen to Sonny and Sam before I left the area 5 years ago. I could only imagine how bad it is now.

[MTK]

Back before I had the ticket I would listen to the Skins home feed online and I just never understood why people liked Sonny and Sam so much.

I guess it's the whole nostalgia thing and the fact they've been doing it for so long, I get that.

But take the homer factor away and it's a piss poor broadcast team. Larry is fine as a play by play guy, but Sonny & Sam are horrible. But then again most teams radio guys are bad. They're usually ex-players, they're paid by the team, and they just root for the home team. Gets old really quick.

[Coff]

For awhile I had to listen to their games because I live in New York, but now I just steal the video feed off the web. My biggest complain about these guys isn't just that they're boring or stupid or inept, but that they in fact are constantly WRONG. They will make announcements as to what happened without waiting for the ref; for example they will declare a first down when in fact there wasn't one. They call completions intereceptions and vice versa. During critical moments of the game, they will shout out what they wanted to happen, rather than what actually did, without understanding that their audience isn't watching the game with them and mistook their exclamation as an actual occurance. My wife pointed out that they sound like two people reacting to a game in living room, rather than hired professionals whose first commitment is to the audience. I'm not sure that they understand the concept of a radio audience. Let me rephrase that; they have no understanding of the concept of a radio audience. If I can't steal a good video feed, I will listen to the game (via nfl.com) through the opposing team's announcers.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Coff

For awhile I had to listen to their games because I live in New York, but now I just steal the video feed off the web. My biggest complain about these guys isn't just that they're boring or stupid or inept, but that they in fact are constantly WRONG. They will make announcements as to what happened without waiting for the ref; for example they will declare a first down when in fact there wasn't one. They call completions intereceptions and vice versa. During critical moments of the game, they will shout out what they wanted to happen, rather than what actually did, without understanding that their audience isn't watching the game with them and mistook their exclamation as an actual occurance. My wife pointed out that they sound like two people reacting to a game in living room, rather than hired professionals whose first commitment is to the audience. I'm not sure that they understand the concept of a radio audience. Let me rephrase that; they have no understanding of the concept of a radio audience. If I can't steal a good video feed, I will listen to the game (via nfl.com) through the opposing team's announcers.

Yeah it's like listening to two old guys watching a game at your local bar. They don't give much insight or thought, they're just watching the game and reacting like fans.