From: ronnie@uts.amdahl.com (Ronnie Townsend)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: Is ABC clueless? (Dierdork bashing)
Date: 5 Jan 93 00:05:51 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <=pwr8b=@lynx.unm.edu> metv@triton.unm.edu writes:
>In article <43504.glh@[128.244.197.62]> "Gene A Heyler" <glh@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> writes:
>>
>>  Doesn't ABC get it? Don't they know how bad he is?
>>
>>  His suck-up to the Redskins and their running game in the 2nd half
>>  (once he had acertained the game was safely in hand for them) was
>>  nothing short of nauseating. Of coure we've been saying that all along.
>>
>>
>>   Time for a two man booth on ABC.
>>
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>
>I have enough of him too.  I don't watch the Monday Night because of him 
>unless my team was playing.  Every game, he would critize the losing team
>and suck-up to the winning team.  It is time for him to go or the rating
>for ABC football is going to go down.  

Okay, now Dan is not the greatest announcer in the Universe but what do you 
want him to do? Congratulate the losers and slam the winners for beating the 
other guys? Dan sees the game from an offensive lineman's viewpoint and when 
he points out that the running game is starting to go for a team he ALWAYS 
credits the O-line for starting to dominate the other team's defensive line. 
And in the case of a tremendous individual effort by a running back, he fesses 
up there as well. Mind you, I have missed a lot of MNF games this year due to 
working late but I can't say as I have heard anything bad from Dan Dierdorf. 
He is honest... he lets it be known that he simply does not care for a player,
as with the Andre Waters fiasco. The only real problem I have with him is that 
it seems to me that anybody who has ever made the pro-bowl is an "all-pro" to 
Dan. He uses it the term to describe any player who has made a pro-bowl in his
career even if they are sucking up the joint this year. That bothers me but 
truly that's about all I can complain about. The MNF team has good chemistry 
for the first time since the Howard, Dandy Don and Frank team... Just enough 
tension to make it interesting. They don't mind disagreeing with each other...
they cover the game from a lineman's view, a "skill position" player's view 
and from a pure journalist view. I have like that. The thing that bohters me 
most about these damn announcers is the number of times they get the friggin 
teams mixed up. If I had a dollar for every time I heard Madden and Summeral 
attribute a play to the wrong team I'd be able to retire. AND they're not the 
only ones. I can't figure it out. I sat and watched 18 Bowls games and 4 playoff
games this past week and I never once got confused about which team was wearing
the white jerseys. In fact I have never had that problem in my life. Why the 
hell is it that these guy making big bank to tell me that "Emmitt Smith carried
the ball for an Eagle first down " keep getting lost. Now I know a lot of the 
stuff we hear them say comes from a teleprompter or quick sheets stuffed under 
their noses but you can't tell me that the guys in the truck get confused about
who has the ball that often too! Shit they get to watch every play 20 times 
in search of a highlight bit or some instant replay footage! 


Stepping down off my soapbox... now.

-- 
Ronnie
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Whenever the fates hear someone say, "It can't get any worse than this..." 
They just laugh and double your misery! 


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