Even though FOX sucked, I enjoyed the commentary

[RunKC]

The pregame sucked. Sean Payton and Gronk were horrific. Everyone was biased.
The postgame with Terry Bradshaw picking on Andy to “waddle over here” was pathetic.

But man oh man. I have to say I was really happy with Kevin Burkhardt, Greg Olsen and Mike Pereira.

I’m so thankful that Joe Buck and Troy Aikman left and did not do this game like our first Super Bowl. I will always be pissed that the best moment in my Chiefs fanhood is Damien Williams breaking the tackle to score, realizing I had first witnessed my team winning a Super Bowl and then realizing that Joe Buck hates my team and could not give a single ****.

That was the worst goddamn call ever. Absolutely no passion or excitement.

Burkhardt and Olsen were so good in comparison. “Man wide open! TD Chiefs! It’s Skyy Moore!” Or Olsen’s “he’s gotta get down!”

Even Pereira called the hold perfectly right after it happened. And yeah Olsen let some emotions get out a bit after but he came back and let Mike explain it.

Everything with FOX sucked but those 3. I’m so glad we got them instead of the boring St. Louis homer and “talks to me when he has 33% of my rings” asshole

[Hammock Parties]

you should be praising the football gods for FOX

that's the only way you were getting 4k

[Hoover]

Brady will never be in the booth. Its beneath him.

I think he does a bunch of special crap and does a lot of corporate BS. Guest on shows. Special interviews. Thats all.

[Monticore]

Should have had a Manning cast of the SB , I tend to watch them on Mondays now.

[Lzen]

Thread starter is mostly right but I have a hard time getting over Olsen whining about the holding call on Bradbury.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by BlackHelicopters

Bradshaw is terrible.

Like so many others, I have also quit watching pregame shows. I don't care what any of these assholes think. Gronk in particular is like a dumber version of Herman Munster, minus the humor. I also pretty much loathe all things Fox when it comes to NFL coverage.

And Bradshaw absolutely sucks balls running the Super Bowl postgame show. Comes off as awkward, surly, cranky, and despite his decades of experience, unprepared. Definitely agree with the glue factory comment. It's way past time.

[Chief Pagan]

Originally Posted by Gary Cooper

Commentary doesn't matter because people will watch the NFL regardless of who is commentating. The SB especially.

At most there's two nationally televised games on simultaneously during the regular season. You're watching which game interests you more; irrespective of the commentators.

I have no idea why networks pay football commentators so much when the public will watch even on mute.

Now imagine if CBS, Fox, and ABC start showing the same game on multiple channels at once. Then maybe it would matter which channel has the better commentary.

It would be nice to have choices given how easy streaming is.

I guess the Manning broadcast is a choice and some people listen to a radio broadcast while watching the game.

I wish they streamed multiple camera angles. I would show the standard broadcast on one TV. I would have an old TV above it that showed a wide angle view of what is happening in the secondary...

[htismaqe]

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?

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.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Hoover

Brady will never be in the booth. Its beneath him.

I think he does a bunch of special crap and does a lot of corporate BS. Guest on shows. Special interviews. Thats all.

Dude, he has a $40M contract. He's not going to be doing a bunch of miscellaneous stuff.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

By the end of the game, it was pretty obvious he had a rooting interest in the Eagles.

I saw him do a half dozen or so games this year and this was the most partial I've ever heard him.

He was almost Romo or Colinsworth-level biased.

^this^ and the comments about the hold were wrong and caused the whole nation to question the end. Fox truck, and Olson were the reason, and Olson was a Philly one who sucks the penis that whole game.

[Gary Cooper]

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief

^this^ and the comments about the hold were wrong and caused the whole nation to question the end. Fox truck, and Olson were the reason, and Olson was a Philly one who sucks the penis that whole game.

Yeah, the Chiefs should sue Fox for making us look bad. They didn't show the backside angle of the actual hold, showed us a different angle that made Philly look better, and that pumpkin pie haircut freak Greg Olsen has to whine about the penalty.

Clear bias from an NFC friendly network.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by Gary Cooper

Yeah, the Chiefs should sue Fox for making us look bad. They didn't show the backside angle of the actual hold, showed us a different angle that made Philly look better, and that pumpkin pie haircut freak Greg Olsen has to whine about the penalty.

Clear bias from an NFC friendly network.

Pumpkin Pie haircut....

[Buehler445]

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.