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Originally Posted by RealSNR
I said it earlier but everybody acted like FOX lost the war to claim star talent as their lead announcer team. CBS already had Nantz, Amazon paid out the ass for Michaels, and NBC moved on from Michaels with Tirico, who had already been great. Oh, and Buck and Aikman. Lol did those guys get overpaid. Each network is paying their dudes out the ass.
"What? You can't just take your B team and promote them to your A team!"
Uhh, yeah. Yeah you can. Because that's what FOX just did. And you know what? It probably didn't cost them a single viewer or set of eyeballs compared with if they had kept the better-known team of Buck and Aikman.
And you're right. When it gets down to it, it's relatively easy to find color commentators. Good play-by-play guys are harder to come by because they do so much talking but can't really let much of their personality show or else they become annoying. But they're far from impossible.
So why not tout Burkhardt and Olsen as your #1 team? What do they not do that you get out of the other douches on the other networks?
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Because Greg Olsen isn't a face or a name? I mean, I'm not saying it's right or anything but look at the guys they generally hire - they're mostly all borderline or current HOF'ers with name recognition, commentary skills be damned.
That's how we get years of guys like Dan ****ing Fouts.