Even though FOX sucked, I enjoyed the commentary

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Originally Posted by htismaqe

I never watch pre-game analysis on the networks. It's almost always garbage.

Fixed. It’s pure ass and haven’t watched it in decades.

The only time I have is during the Hamlin game because I wanted to see if he was going to live.

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?

I think outfits pay because of the MNF debacles over the years, Limbaugh, Miller, Booger et all.

It’s safer to pay a known quantity so you don’t get roasted and hurt the “brand”. Nevermind most of the brand degradation for ESPN comes through their non-live programming but whatever.

It’s dumb as ****. Rather than, I don’t know, be competent, we will just overpay regardless of the fact that it is certainly time to get skinny in OTA media.