🏈 Bama vs Auburn picked up by CBS

[psychojoe]

Keith Jackson is / was the voice of college football. -to me anyway.
Verne is a little funny to listen to, but Gary and his "another negative play" is tiring. He is also quick to tell how Alabama got away with that one, or how that should have been a flag...
Todd B on the toast of the town was absolutely a great piece each week.

Definitely an order of magnitude better than the usual half time drivel.

 

[AFF]

Keith Jackson is / was the voice of college football. -to me anyway.
Verne is a little funny to listen to, but Gary and his "another negative play" is tiring. He is also quick to tell how Alabama got away with that one, or how that should have been a flag...
Todd B on the toast of the town was absolutely a great piece each week.

I would agree with every single point you made. I would add that I personally think that, even though he comes across sometimes as haughty or smarmy, Gary is an excellent (if not the best) college football ANALYST. It took me a few years (and a few therapy sessions) to admit that, but I think its true. I'm OK, Gary's OK. Vern may be entertaining at times, but he's still such an imbecile that it's more distracting than anything.

I do miss Keith...

 

[mrchase]

Could have Mack Brown calling the game...........:shock:

 

[T&B]

No idea how anyone can dislike Gary. He's about as good as it gets relative to X's and O's, and has a great feel for a game. Verne is pitiful, but Gary is spot on.

 

[PhillyGirl]

This is great news. I feared it would be a night game. My parents, my fiancé, and his parents are all getting together for dinner that evening and I was pissed I was gonna have to miss it. So, yay!!

 

[TerryP]

No idea how anyone can dislike Gary. He's about as good as it gets relative to X's and O's, and has a great feel for a game.

I can see where his style gets on some peoples nerves. A few things he does quite well.

I think he's got one of the best spotters in the business. Two, he has an ability to look at the play without following the ball or action. Part of that goes back to his spotter ... the other is just a talent.

 

[Mr. Pink]

I can see where his style gets on some peoples nerves. A few things he does quite well.

I think he's got one of the best spotters in the business. Two, he has an ability to look at the play without following the ball or action. Part of that goes back to his spotter ... the other is just a talent.

I tend to agree with this. I think Gary is a great analyst, but his delivery and how he presents things can be annoying. He often gets on a schtick and tries to hammer it home the entire broadcast, i.e. bookends, negative plays, etc.

He's very good at predicting plays/formations/strategies and then dissecting how and why it worked/didn't work.

I don't like Verne however. It's not because of the mispronounciations or the "wooowwweeee" Type of stuff.... I just don't think he adds anything to the broadcast.

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[rick4bama]

This is great news. I feared it would be a night game. My parents, my fiancé, and his parents are all getting together for dinner that evening and I was pissed I was gonna have to miss it. So, yay!!

Sorry PhillyGirl for what I'm about to say. But, it better to be off then on. The nice way I could say this forgive me please.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Sorry PhillyGirl for what I'm about to say. But, it better to be off then on. The nice way I could say this forgive me please.

:rolf: I needed that much-needed laugh, thanks Rick!

 

[rick4bama]

You welcome

 

[Snout Spout]

I tend to agree with this. I think Gary is a great analyst, but his delivery and how he presents things can be annoying. He often gets on a schtick and tries to hammer it home the entire broadcast, i.e. bookends, negative plays, etc.

He's very good at predicting plays/formations/strategies and then dissecting how and why it worked/didn't work.

This. It's not so much Gary's analysis that annoys me, it's the fact that he never stops talking, CBS puts their commentary extremely high in the mix, they show them on camera way too much when there's action on the field, he loves to keep hammering on the same thing throughout the broadcast, loves to say "look I was right," loves to keep hammering on an officiating call he disagrees with. The guy is just really annoying and tiresome. To me, Blackledge has the plus of Gary without all the minuses.

And I don't mind Verne so much. Yeah, he doesn't add much, and I'd rather have Nessler, but Verne's grunting noises don't reach the level of annoyance that Gary's shtick does for me.

 

[TerryP]

It's not so much Gary's analysis that annoys me, it's the fact that he never stops talking, CBS puts their commentary extremely high in the mix, they show them on camera way too much when there's action on the field, he loves to keep hammering on the same thing throughout the broadcast, loves to say "look I was right," loves to keep hammering on an officiating call he disagrees with. The guy is just really annoying and tiresome.

If I change a few words here I could describe relationships I've had with women over my lifetime. I didn't have any issue tuning them out when they "crossed that line." Same with any color commentator.

I suspect, if honest, a lot here would admit to the same with their "significant others." But, can't in football?

One of Another one of life's mysteries ... hell, more than on in this post.

 

[Snout Spout]

If I change a few words here I could describe relationships I've had with women over my lifetime. I didn't have any issue tuning them out when they "crossed that line." Same with any color commentator.

I suspect, if honest, a lot here would admit to the same with their "significant others." But, can't in football?

One of Another one of life's mysteries ... hell, more than on in this post.

LOL. Well, personally, my wife is un-tune-out-able. Super loud, and even when I'm not turning her out, but she thinks I am, she gets super pissed, I repeat the last 100 words she said to prove I was listening, and she's still pissed because I didn't respond during it in the way she desired.

 

[TerryP]

LOL. Well, personally, my wife is un-tune-out-able. Super loud, and even when I'm not turning her out, but she thinks I am, she gets super pissed, I repeat the last 100 words she said to prove I was listening, and she's still pissed because I didn't respond during it in the way she desired.

You're being part of the process.

You're listening to the point of being able to process what she's saying but ...