finknottle Posted November 23, 2005 Posted November 23, 2005 If John Madden is ever scheduled to announce another Bret Favre game, can we all go to every news group we know of and urge everybody to boycott watching the game? The networks care about only one thing: ratings. His displays are creepy. Thank you.
Orton's Arm Posted November 23, 2005 Posted November 23, 2005 John Madden is infinitely better than the announcers on ESPN.
Steven in MD Posted November 23, 2005 Posted November 23, 2005 John Madden is infinitely better than the announcers on ESPN. 510664[/snapback] What are you smoking? I want some. There is NO announcer who is worse than Madden. NONE! The man is grating and to be honest, is not very insightful.
Fake-Fat Sunny Posted November 23, 2005 Posted November 23, 2005 I think a grassroots movement to get the networks to experiment with an announcerless game as they did in the 70s might have some legs. The 70s effort was pretty unsatisfactory because they merely went with ambient noise but did nothing to effectively keep one aware of the time left or explain weird ref calls (thank gosh they did not blow the coin flip that game). However, with new graphic innovations like the marking of the first down point, fulltime score and time, and the crawl with out of town scores, the announcers are at least redundant mostly and just awful a lot of the time. The nerworks might bite on this idea because it would give them leverage in lowering the costs of paying announcers.
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