Name your Current Most Hated Announcers/Studio and Color Commentators College or Pro [Archive]

Krazy

10-01-2007, 12:06 PM

Madden has got be on the list. He used to be really good when I was growing up. I think age has taken it's toll on him- he doesn't even know what he's babbling about anymore.

- Chris Berman (he needs to realize he's talking to mostly adult viewers, not 10 YO's. Probably should've taken over for Mr. Rogers when he passed away).
- Stuart Scott (his ghetto-fabulous lingo is annoying)
- Stephen A. Smith (Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson rolled up into 1 sports personality)
- All the casters that do the crap games (Ron Pitts- I think that's his name- for example)

There has got to be more, just can't think of them right now...

Brewster

10-01-2007, 12:15 PM

god, i hate madden. Always the same... yes, yes, we know the point of the game is to score, tell us something we don't know.

Displacement

10-01-2007, 12:23 PM

god, i hate madden. Always the same... yes, yes, we know the point of the game is to score, tell us something we don't know.

<3 Madden!

"That fullback's a big guy -they should nickname him 'Meat' - they should nickname all fullbacks Meat."

Thanks John! Awesome commentary once again. :judge:

I can't remember the guy's name but there's an old dude with glasses who is part of the ESPN College Football trio, and he is totally unintelligible. I wish I could remember his name...

GTO THUNDER

10-01-2007, 12:23 PM

uhhh i forgot about madden. It sounds like he just got back from the dentist office and he still has a numb mouth, full of cotton balls.

Krazy

10-01-2007, 12:23 PM

Here's probably my least favorite:

- Kevin Harlan (makes every play seem like it's the greatest play ever- he should be put on Prozac or something, terrible voice, annoying as hell)
- Any "homer" local announcer (I actually enjoy watching Braves TBS games due to them calling a fair game)

Krazy

10-01-2007, 12:25 PM

uhhh i forgot about madden. It sounds like he just got back from the dentist office and he still has a numb mouth, full of cotton balls.

That's just all the fat around his face- and probably some leftover turkey in his mouth from last Thanksgiving...

jbls1gto

10-01-2007, 12:47 PM

Gary Danielson

bandit12

10-01-2007, 12:50 PM

Game over....I win

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GTO JUDGE

10-01-2007, 12:53 PM

For NCAA basketball...... I loath Dick Vitale

Krazy

10-01-2007, 01:02 PM

+1 (or -1 depending on how we're scoring this) for Vitale & Packer.

gto_in_nc

10-01-2007, 01:13 PM

Howard Cosell.

:wall:

Sicky

10-01-2007, 01:13 PM

Larry Merchant.
Bill Walton.
Tony Kornheiser.

MikeZ28

10-01-2007, 01:28 PM

Musburger. He manages to sound like an idiot AND condescending at the same time. Most announcers can only do one or the other.

GTO JUDGE

10-01-2007, 03:20 PM

I like the way Sean Salisbury berates struggling QB's when he is the definition of failure of a QB. His career was mostly of a back up but he knows it all and says what other QB's should be doing when he himself didn't git er done.

"In the fall of 2006, Salisbury was suspended by ESPN for one week. Reports indicate that the suspension came as a result of Salisbury taking a photograph of his penis with a cell phone camera, and disseminating that picture to several female coworkers. The women were reportedly upset about the incident, and Salisbury was taken off the air for a period of one week as a result. The incident has remained quiet however, as ESPN has never released an official statement announcing the suspension."

I found that interesting. Can anyone say Lance Rentzel?

Harpo

10-01-2007, 03:59 PM

Baseball: Dave Campbell on ESPN radio is fantastic. Not sure who the play by play guy is with him -- but he's really good, too.

Football: Jack Buck and Hank Stram, when they did Monday Night Football on the radio a few years ago, were incredible. Absolutely incredible. Stram had this knack for predicting plays -- and more often than not, that's what the team would run. Bill King, of course, too.

Right now? Gary Plummer, the San Francisco 49ers' analyst. When they were playing the Steelers a couple of weeks ago, Plummer explained how one of the 49ers linebackers, who could drop back into pass coverage, got hurt and was replaced by a guy who specialized in pass rushing and couldn't cover. That explained why the Steelers tight ends were always getting open. Great insight. Great stuff. Too bad Joe Starkey, their play-by-play guy, is a whiny homer queen.

The Raiders play-by-play buy, Greg Papa's really, really good, too. I also like the Steelers' play-by-play guy Bill Hillgrove. Madden? A complete moron who should retire like that drunk Pat Summerall.

Hockey: The late, great Dan Kelley was awesome. Everybody now blows since Gary Thorne doesn't call hockey at ESPN now.

DaveLT19

10-01-2007, 04:22 PM

Hockey: The late, great Dan Kelley was awesome. Everybody now blows since Gary Thorne doesn't call hockey at ESPN now.

Totally agree...Gary Thorne was the man, despite the fact that he often would say the wrong player.

I cannot stand Mark May, Steven A Smith, as well as most college announcers.

I think my all-time favorite sports voice is Jon Miller

RyanRo24

10-01-2007, 04:28 PM

White Sox fans know and love him...me as a Cubs fan I hate him... Hawk. "You can put it on the boooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdddddddd ddddd..........aww come on how'd he catch that ball?" Rofl. Moron...

elpuerco

10-01-2007, 04:28 PM

Paul Maguire
Moose Johnson
Michael Irvin
Keyshawn Johnson
Ron Jaworski
Bob Davie
Tony Siragusa
Chris Collingsworth
Al Michaels
Brent Musberger
Sterling Sharpe
Dan Dierdorf
Sean Salisbury

Plus Shannon Sharpe

These dimwits had a career at one point, but now they think they can annunciate and all they are doing is proving they are meatheads.

Add Joe Buck and Bill Walton to that list for good measure.
And the whole MNF team on ESPN.

GTO48

10-01-2007, 04:32 PM

Can I go off topic here and choose Rusty Wallace for NASCAR coverage? That dude talks about himself more than he does about the race.

GTO JUDGE

10-01-2007, 04:43 PM

I read that Rusty Wallace was seen propositioning himself in a mens room. He was tapping his foot and his hands answered him.

GTO48

10-01-2007, 05:28 PM

I read that Rusty Wallace was seen propositioning himself in a mens room. He was tapping his foot and his hands answered him.

Word on the street is it wasn't his hand... It was Robby Gordon... :gr_jest:

Rob@WretchedMS

10-01-2007, 05:35 PM

Can I go off topic here and choose Rusty Wallace for NASCAR coverage? That dude talks about himself more than he does about the race.

God i hate listening to him, i think he wants to give Kurt Busch oral......

Back to football,
Tony Kornheiser sucks ass

Twitch

10-01-2007, 07:10 PM

Keith Jackson....uggggg
John Madden...."ugghhh you see, first you ugh take a chicken then ugh stuff it in a duck then you stuff that into a turkey and uggghhhh see you get aTurdunkin, hee. Ha....Farves so great...."

GTOhaas07

10-01-2007, 08:46 PM

Phill Simms hands down.

GT086

10-01-2007, 10:13 PM

<3 Madden!

"That fullback's a big guy -they should nickname him 'Meat' - they should nickname all fullbacks Meat."

Thanks John! Awesome commentary once again. :judge:

I can't remember the guy's name but there's an old dude with glasses who is part of the ESPN College Football trio, and he is totally unintelligible. I wish I could remember his name...
I think you're talking about Lou Holtz.

As for me there's a long list of them I hate.

John Madden
Al Michaels
Joe Buck
Tim McCarver
Joe Morgan
Jon Miller
Peter Gammons
Michael Irvin
Ron Jaworski
Stuart Scott
Stephen A. Smith
Bill Walton
Shannon Sharpe
Steve Phillips
John Kruk
Mike Tirico
Bryant Gumbel
Cris Carter
Jim Gray
Troy Aikman

There's more, I just need time to think of them.

rotten23

10-01-2007, 10:50 PM

for me it's certainly dick vitale, larry merchant, mike goldberg (ufc), bill walton, and deffinately stephen a. smith!

Red Bearded Goat

10-01-2007, 11:24 PM

I hate;

Al Michaels.... sounds ghey.
Joe Buck.... is a nitwit.
And the complete ESPN crew doing Monday Night Football sound like a group of wash women yappin it up.

nsr

10-02-2007, 05:00 AM

i hate joe morgan and jim whatever, the two ESPN guys. why? because they're NATIONAL telecasters. they know pretty much nil about the teams they are attempting to cover. "boy pujols has a pretty good glove at first base, you may see him win a gold glove one of these days down the line". yeah no shit? you think maybe because he IS a gold glove first baseman?

i despise national telecasts. on top of the fact that they know nothing about the teams they are trying to cover (because their brains are crammed full of minimal knowledge about every team in sports), they show no bias, which PISSES ME OFF.

i remember this one in the opening day series against the mets, while the cards are on offense. "ground ball, can he get it? jose reyes makes the play, one....two... DOUBLE PLAY! HE TURNS A DOUBLE PLAY!"

me screaming at my TV: "**** YOU!!!!!"

i don't want the telecasters sympathizing and cheering for the other team.

FOX is pretty bad, too. if i had it my way i'd listen to mike shannon and john rooney every game, and i like KSDK's local telecast, but that's about it! if i ran a sports network, and i was going to put together a team of announcers to commentate the game, i'd get one national guy (NOT joe buck...), and one seasoned veteran from each of the teams' radio networks. every team in the league has an official radio telecast, with an old guy who used to play for the team, has extensive knowledge of the team, and has an amazing radio voice. for the cardinals it's mike shannon, for the brewers it was bob euker. get one from each team and a national guy. and this isn't to make it "fair", it's to make it entertaining.

GTO JUDGE

10-02-2007, 06:04 AM

I love Collegiate Football.... It seems no matter what game I watch Paul Maguire is commentating. Bob Griese is IMO the best ....but they put a flabber mouthed thinks he knows it all to match intellect with Griese and no matter how hard he tries he can't. He is constantly running his yap... I end up watching the game he is broadcasting in mute mode. God I friggin hate him. Another failure as a player but knows it all.

Spyral

10-02-2007, 06:08 AM

Ron Jaworski. Can't stand the guy.

Shannon Sharpe, I would elaborate but this horse has been beaten to death.

ANY female reporter on the sidelines. Useless. Most of them aren't even attractive.

Red Bearded Goat

10-02-2007, 06:35 AM

ANY female reporter on the sidelines. Useless. Most of them aren't even attractive.

Yea, bimbos are supposed to be sportin pom pom's instead of microphones and gettin flipped in the air so we can check out there wares...

GTO JUDGE

10-02-2007, 07:03 AM

Yea, bimbos are supposed to be sportin pom pom's instead of microphones and gettin flipped in the air so we can check out there wares...

Goodell is banning pompoms cause it is distracting the pre-madonnas from concentrating on their game. The pre-madonnas are watching cheer leaders instead of running pass routes, pass blocking, run blocking, and hitting open receivers?????.... hmmmmm Kinda describes the Phila Eagles.

Leslie Visser selected to the NFL Hall of Fame???????????
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6348620 .html

I guess you don't have to play or coach in the NFL to make the hall of fame after all. Next thing ya know McDrabb's mom will make the hall of fame for peddling Chunky Soup.

PeleProdigyGTO

10-02-2007, 07:04 AM

Tim McCarver is the worst, I'm not a huge baseball fan, but I know more than this dipshit. The stuff he says baffles me. Bill Walton is severely grating. Johnny Miller seems to announce every golf event I watch, and the same goes for him as does McCarver, what an idiot.

My favorite is Gus Johnson (Youtube him), he adds about 4 levels of excitement to anything he announces. I think he mostly does college basketball, but he should do everything. Any Bill Simmons (sports guy) fans in here? I think Madden is pure entertainment, he cracks me up. I also don't get why people don't like Jaws (Jaworski), he is the best analyst in football, bar none.

nsr

10-02-2007, 06:58 PM

Tim McCarver is the worst, I'm not a huge baseball fan, but I know more than this dipshit.

ahahahaha yeah i hate tim mccarver, too. the funny thing is that he won a world series ring with the st louis cardinals, and spent a good portion of his career in st. louis, but for some reason when he's commentating you can just tell that he HATES st louis.

"dart players throw darts, but baseball players...they throw baseballs." thanks tim

GT086

10-02-2007, 09:00 PM

ANY female reporter on the sidelines. Useless. Most of them aren't even attractive.
Forgot about them. Also add in any woman that's on ESPN.

Napoleon_Tanerite

10-02-2007, 09:20 PM

i can't ****ing stand lee corso.

Krazy

10-03-2007, 07:52 AM

Outside of Aikman (who is awesome BTW), I think everyone's been mentioned.

Not sayin, just sayin' :wall:

ChrisMcGTO04

10-03-2007, 09:18 AM

Ron Jaworski. Can't stand the guy.

Shannon Sharpe, I would elaborate but this horse has been beaten to death.

ANY female reporter on the sidelines. Useless. Most of them aren't even attractive.

Check out Erin Andrews on ESPN you fagtard :judge:

Hot as hell and actually knows sports.....their female NASCAR reporter is fine too...:judge:

Krazy

10-03-2007, 09:43 AM

Check out Erin Andrews on ESPN you fagtard :judge:

Hot as hell and actually knows sports.....their female NASCAR reporter is fine too...:judge:

Bonnie Bernstein got hot out of nowhere too (she used to be OK, but she looks a lot better over the past year or so) on top of doing a good job on the sidelines.

lol@fagtard. Haven't heard that one in a while...

HelloYello Goat

10-03-2007, 09:51 AM

Bob Brenley...stop flaunting your ring in the camera every 3 seconds!!!!

nzarnow

10-04-2007, 03:18 AM

Lou Holtz sounds like a dentist is shoving a water pick into his mouth while he is trying to talk. Can't stand it.

Bill Walton is the most biased POS on TV. I'll never forget when he announced the Arizona-Illinois NCAA tourney game and his son was playing for Arizona. Couldn't stop talking about how shitty Illinois was and how golden Arizona was. Then Illinois won and he said how lucky Illinois got.

Phil Simms is a retard.

Any CBS Sunday day football announcer doesn't know what they are talking about.

Ron Jaworski needs to stop talking. It's painful to hear his voice.

Probably more, but thats all I can think of.

TenEchs

10-04-2007, 09:07 AM

Joe Theismann -- hands down the worst. It has been over 20 years since he last played, yet he continues to talk like he is the center of attention. When they televise Redskin games and he is the announcer, I will mute the TV and turn on the radio to listen to Sonny Jurgenson and Sam Huff.

Tony Kornheiser is a good sports writter. Does not seem at home in the booth where he does not have a script.

Enginerd

10-04-2007, 09:23 AM

Tim McCarver...he is just plain dumb...plus he's a Yankee nutswinger. Jim Kaat is close second.

Midnight

10-04-2007, 09:24 AM

Joe Theismann can DIAF. Tim McCarver can COABOD.

Palmer

10-04-2007, 10:08 AM

Check out Erin Andrews on ESPN you fagtard :judge:

Hot as hell and actually knows sports.....their female NASCAR reporter is fine too...:judge:

Colleen Dominguez (ESPN) has the greatest rack in sports. :judge:

el Hefe

10-04-2007, 10:56 AM

Not sure if it was said yet but, NFL - Randy Cross. I ****ing hate him and wish bad things upon him when I am subjected to listen to his idiotic babble when my chiefs play.

And I can't listen to the radio broadcast because the HD feed is a few seconds slower than real time. and my pre/pro can't compensate for that long of a sync.

Palmer

10-04-2007, 12:27 PM

Paul Maguire from the OP's original list.

But pound for pound, I'd pay cash money to kick Barry Melrose in the ****ing face until he didn't have a jaw anymore.

GTO JUDGE

10-05-2007, 08:40 AM

I wish someone would break Joe Theisman's leg........

AGAIN

PeleProdigyGTO

10-05-2007, 08:43 AM

But pound for pound, I'd pay cash money to kick Barry Melrose in the ****ing face until he didn't have a jaw anymore.

Yikes Palmer, I'd probably settle for ripping out his horrible, horrible hair. :gr_jest:

eh?

zech912

10-07-2007, 05:47 AM

Doug Flutie.
Craig James.
Gary Danielson.

mikesgtoinvegas

10-07-2007, 03:03 PM

skip caray
bob costas
white sox announcer who says "he gone"
brent mustard burger
jon miller
and a whole list of others

TXGTOU

10-07-2007, 03:10 PM

I'm surprised it took so long for someone to mention Joe Theisman, Bill Walton is another boob, and I haven't seen him listed here yet, but MARV ALBERT is an annoying shit. You hear him take little snaps at his co-hosts and just once you want them to bring up Marv and his criminal record with that woman he bit. That would probably shut him up.