Biased announcers looking stupid

[ConstantReboot]

Maybe it's subtle, and again, I like Al. But it's about perspective.

For instance, on the Zeke play, one person can say NY came after Dak, but didn't quite get there and the safety was caught deep allowing an underneath completion for some big yards. Another might say Dak did a good job of moving Zeke across the formation and set the other WRs to flow deep and to the right to influence the safety, and Brice made a nice sustained block to allow Zeke to get a lot of extra yards.

Both statements are true. The first is a Giant bias, the second is a Cowboy bias. Al will say something like the first most of the time, since he was thinking in terms of the Giants in this game.

Al Michaels said that the Giants are legit superbowl contenders. Yet never mentioned anything of the Cowboys making it to the superbowl.

He's not the only one. It seems like a few announcers and pundits have said the Giants are superbowl contenders. I don't know how they came to that conclusion. I think its dumb.

The Cowboys are the legit superbowl contenders in the East. Not the Giants.

 

[kumizi]

Collinsworth is good. These guys have to pretty much talk for three hours straight. They're going to say 2-3 stupid things. Fans need to get a life instead of complaining about one of the best announcers there is.

 

[TX_Yid]

I can't wait for Romo to call a Cowboys game. He will probably predict every play the Cowboys will run.

Then how come it always took him until we had 1 second left to run every play???

And I love me some Romo!

 

[Verdict]

You should have seen the Monday game thread when the Denver game started and they had that female announcer.

The hueing and crying was epic. You'd think it was the end of the world. For a minute I thought Kim Jong Un had fired off a nuke.

I had to get out of CZ and just watch the game.

She was absolutely horrendous!!!

 

[DandyDon1722]

Al micheals is a Los Angeles dude. Has nothing to do with New York.

Yeah, I'm about 7 miles from that spot, over the hill on the other side of Studio City

I'm selling and moving to Rhode Island (most likely) when the boy turns 18

I lived on Moorpark in Studio City, worked out at LA Fitness in North Hollywood and worked downtown Hollywood (in the business) and I loved Cali. After growing up in Buffalo, then living in the miserable heat and humidity of Orlando for 15 years, I couldn't believe how nice the weather was every single day. Going to the Hollywood Bowl in August, when the sun is setting and it's 67 degrees in the middle of summer with no humidity - man I loved it.

I also made great friends there. Used to go to a sports bar called Rocco's in Studio City and met lots of Cowboy fans who I would play golf with. I'm back in Buffalo helping my mom who is struggling with some surgeries but I loved everything about California.

I know it can tough with kids and I know it comes with all the big city stuff. If I can I'll retire near Laguna or further south into San Diego. I know it's expensive but I look at it as a cover charge for living there - just me.

BTW - Al was born in Brooklyn but lives in Hawaii now. Fun fact - his first job in the business was selecting women for the old Dating Game in the 60's.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

WTH?

I'm sitting here watching the Bengals play the Texans and Collinsworth refuses to talk about the Cowboys!

I'm sick of this anti-Cowboy media!

 

[Trouty]

I lived on Moorpark in Studio City, worked out at LA Fitness in North Hollywood and worked downtown Hollywood (in the business) and I loved Cali. After growing up in Buffalo, then living in the miserable heat and humidity of Orlando for 15 years, I couldn't believe how nice the weather was every single day. Going to the Hollywood Bowl in August, when the sun is setting and it's 67 degrees in the middle of summer with no humidity - man I loved it.

I also made great friends there. Used to go to a sports bar called Rocco's in Studio City and met lots of Cowboy fans who I would play golf with. I'm back in Buffalo helping my mom who is struggling with some surgeries but I loved everything about California.

I know it can tough with kids and I know it comes with all the big city stuff. If I can I'll retire near Laguna or further south into San Diego. I know it's expensive but I look at it as a cover charge for living there - just me.

BTW - Al was born in Brooklyn but lives in Hawaii now. Fun fact - his first job in the business was selecting women for the old Dating Game in the 60's.

Awesome, brother! I live off of Kling and Cahuenga. Real dang close to that 24. Lots of celebs go there. I was going to the one across from the Empire Center in Burbank. To many people at the NoHo one. Horrible parking, etc. But I have friends that go there.

 

[TheDude]

North Hollywood

Calabasas

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

I have liked Collinsworth for a while because he tries to educate without talking down to people. I think he is an excellent commentator for the average fan.

Romo was just a step better than any other color guy I heard this weekend. Have never heard one calling out the plays like he was before they happened, runs and passes and of course he was reading all the blitzes.

Aikman is good in his dry kind of calculated way. He has good insights but does fall into the pattern of using certain words over and over again. I think that could be an issue for Romo as well as he goes on but from the standpoint of what he was providing, he was exceptional.

 

[Trouty]

Calabasas

Look at us repping the SFV up in here!!

 

[TrailBlazer]

(One more comment about last week's game and I'll keep it focused on Denver.)

Collinsworth- talking about how great NY's slot corner was after Beasley's caught the ball and turned him around for about a 15 yard gain.

And this one: (My favorite play of the game just because of New Yorker Al Michaels' call. Dak takes a snap from the shotgun formation starts retreating and the Giants are rushing, Micheals says, "here come the Giants!" and Dak tosses it to Zeke who runs 30 yards. I actually said to my wife (she watches the games with me), "and there goes Zeke!"

Sounds like you should listen to a homer broadcast or something. Al and Cris aren't paid to be cowboys fanboys.

 

[TheHerd]

I lived on Moorpark in Studio City, worked out at LA Fitness in North Hollywood and worked downtown Hollywood (in the business) and I loved Cali. After growing up in Buffalo, then living in the miserable heat and humidity of Orlando for 15 years, I couldn't believe how nice the weather was every single day. Going to the Hollywood Bowl in August, when the sun is setting and it's 67 degrees in the middle of summer with no humidity - man I loved it.

I also made great friends there. Used to go to a sports bar called Rocco's in Studio City and met lots of Cowboy fans who I would play golf with. I'm back in Buffalo helping my mom who is struggling with some surgeries but I loved everything about California.

I know it can tough with kids and I know it comes with all the big city stuff. If I can I'll retire near Laguna or further south into San Diego. I know it's expensive but I look at it as a cover charge for living there - just me.

BTW - Al was born in Brooklyn but lives in Hawaii now. Fun fact - his first job in the business was selecting women for the old Dating Game in the 60's.

I lived in San Diego, well north county (Carlsbad and Solana Beach) many moons ago for about a decade. Best weather in the world and loved thy lifestyle overall. Always outside doing something. Weather concerns never interrupted plans, ever. A far cry from New Hampshire.

Would love to end up there, but no chance as wife is east coast only.

 

[DandyDon1722]

Awesome, brother! I live off of Kling and Cahuenga. Real dang close to that 24. Lots of celebs go there. I was going to the one across from the Empire Center in Burbank. To many people at the NoHo one. Horrible parking, etc. But I have friends that go there.

Oh yeah, parking is horrible. You hold your breath hoping you get spot in a reasonable time. Funny I go to one now near the Bills stadium and I literally pull up to within 30 yards of the front door virtually every time. Very nice people here though.

Guess it's the difference between Buffalo and southern California.

 

[DandyDon1722]

I lived in San Diego, well north county (Carlsbad and Solana Beach) many moons ago for about a decade. Best weather in the world and loved thy lifestyle overall. Always outside doing something. Weather concerns never interrupted plans, ever. A far cry from New Hampshire.

Would love to end up there, but no chance as wife is east coast only.

Yes! Solana Beach. Went there for the first time a couple years ago. Took the Sunliner train down the coast (same one the Cowboys used to take to San Diego) to the track at Del Mar. I don't have the words to describe how beautiful that place is. One of the best times I've ever had and won some money on the horses.

I would have to have a serious sit down with my wife "LOL" but I get it.

 

[TheHerd]

Yes! Solana Beach. Went there for the first time a couple years ago. Took the Sunliner train down the coast (same one the Cowboys used to take to San Diego) to the track at Del Mar. I don't have the words to describe how beautiful that place is. One of the best times I've ever had and won some money on the horses.

I would have to have a serious sit down with my wife "LOL" but I get it.

Oh we've had plenty! It's as close as I've come to internally debating the possibilities!

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

yea and then moved to LA. Fair to say he has spent more time in LA/Cali where he has lived for about 50 years?

All of his formative years were in NY. You said that he had nothing to do with NY.

He also loved the hometown Dodgers. I see no reason why he wouldn't have a soft pot for the other hometown teams. NYG were the only football in town back then. Knicks and Rangers make sense too.

That doesn't mean that he wouldn't like LA teams too particularly given how they handled conferences and travel 50 years ago.

 

[TwoDeep3]

Announcers attempt to keep the rhetoric interesting, basing early games in the season on last year's production.

I suspect it is not easy looking smart on every play in every game you call as a paid analyst or play-by-play guy.

It only takes being in the game day thread and watching all of us comment after each play to understand the sum total of genius as observers of this game is sparse at best.

I think where I find the most hilarity is the volumes of words spent by fans to tell other fans what they saw, as posted here weekly. The God-complex is alive and well here at ole Football Central.

 

[theebs]

All of his formative years were in NY. You said that he had nothing to do with NY.

He also loved the hometown Dodgers. I see no reason why he wouldn't have a soft pot for the other hometown teams. NYG were the only football in town back then. Knicks and Rangers make sense too.

That doesn't mean that he wouldn't like LA teams too particularly given how they handled conferences and travel 50 years ago.

Still on this?

Well, he doesn't have anything to do with NY and a step further I think in his heart he was always a baseball and hockey guy before anything. Ive never read anything about him even having a favorite team or who he ever rooted for in football. From the reasoning you are putting forth you could make more of a case he would hate NY teams because the Dodgers left brooklyn and went to LA just like he did.


The guy has never done anything but gush over Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys and the stadium yet here you and others are complaining that he is biased. Pretty foolish.

Al has always been a california guy. If you have ever listened to him its pretty obvious. Yes he has a ny accent and i bet he likes bagels too (wink wink which is another of my suspected issues with the original poster)

Brad Sham is from Chicago, Babe Laufenberg is from Los Angeles does it matter. No.

 

[TheHerd]

I love Al, but let's not pretend early life didn't affect our team affinity. I left Texas at 10, been in the Boston area for 45 years. I bleed Cowboy blue.

That said, Al can be, and is, a great announcer even if he's from NY originally.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Still on this?

Well, he doesn't have anything to do with NY and a step further I think in his heart he was always a baseball and hockey guy before anything. Ive never read anything about him even having a favorite team or who he ever rooted for in football. From the reasoning you are putting forth you could make more of a case he would hate NY teams because the Dodgers left brooklyn and went to LA just like he did.


The guy has never done anything but gush over Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys and the stadium yet here you and others are complaining that he is biased. Pretty foolish.

Al has always been a california guy. If you have ever listened to him its pretty obvious. Yes he has a ny accent and i bet he likes bagels too (wink wink which is another of my suspected issues with the original poster)

Brad Sham is from Chicago, Babe Laufenberg is from Los Angeles does it matter. No.

Again he grew up in Brooklyn and only moved from there at 14. He has not always been a CA guy.

Your examples are terrible. Sham has been the voice of the team and Babe was on the team.

Al covered the Dodgers and Lakers. He never covered the Rams or Raiders specifically and even if he was a Rams fan that does not preclude him from liking the Giants too. He certainly gushes enough when they do well on his broadcasts.