O/T Patriots V Giants.

It's not hate, it's more like nausea really. Can you imagine watching a football match with the full grid iron treatment. Cut to studio pundits every few minutes, over-analyse every detail to death, repetitive slow motion replays of everything from every angle, dozens of advert breaks, no flow to the game as a spectacle because of the huge pauses between any action. It's more about corporate audience manipulation than sport.

 

I used to work with someone who when ever a game was on used to record it and watch it the next night so they didn't have to put up with all that.

 

I like the breaks and studio annaylsis, it adds to the occasion. Does everyone hate cricket, tennis & snooker aswell?

 

I bet it was still a pain having to constantly fast-forward it.

 

You've lost me. How are those sports comparable with grid iron.

 

No worse than the F1 on ITV used to be for me when I used to work Sundays. We both loved it when Sky+ came along though, much less of a faff fast forwarding that than there was with VHS tapes.

 

Because your description of all the things you find nauseous about NFL could also be applied to cricket, tennis and snooker.

 

It's fairly obvious.

 

Cricket is a full day's action with two minimal intervals for lunch and tea. The commentators describe the live action throughout the game. Action isn't stopped for commercial breaks and studio pundits only appear during the change of over etc.
Tennis is a continuous game from start to finish. The commentators describe the live action throughout the game. Action isn't stopped for commercial breaks and studio pundits only appear at the start and finish.
Snooker is a continuous game with only minimal and necessary rest breaks. The commentators describe the live action throughout the game. Action isn't stopped for commercial breaks and studio pundits appear when it doesn't conflict with the action.

 

I don't like egg-chasing but at least they don't wear full body armour to play unlike the Yanks

 

Who's commentating over there? Are you guys getting our feed from NBC?

 

You've obviously never seen a rugby player with his shirt off.

The main difference is the wearing of helmets.

 

Aye me too, favourite number is still 13...

 

BBC and Sky are both carrying the NBC for live action but doing their own studio stuff.

I believe this to be correct for NBC:

Super Bowl XLVI

Bob Costas and a ton of other people. FIVE HOUR pre-game.

Commentators - Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth

Reporters - Alex Flanagan and Michelle Taf

 

the main reason anyone is a fool for watching this is that the Womens final in the Hockey was on BBC2 live on the red button from 11pm.
It was Argentina vs Great Britain , the vast majority of them are pretty good to look at n'all

it finished 1 nil to the Argies btw ,

 

Thanks. Wondered if there were English commentators doing American football like we used to have Americans work the World Cup back in the nineties and absolutely butchering the names and the sport as a whole.

I can't help but feel like Burnsy would be perfect for this. With all of the breaks in play, he'd have all kinds of time to talk about pies and reggae clubs and not miss a second of the action!

 

Are you on a wind up? They have a break after every over, they have a break when a wicket falls & they have a drinks break halfway through each session.

 

Now it seems with World Cups and such like, ESPN or FOX tend to borrow the likes of Martin Tyler, Alan Smith, Ian Darke, Andy Gray, Efan Ekoku, from this sides of the waters.

 

Sorry I don't mean to be rude but are you from these shores because you seem a bit confused about Cricket?
You see there is a break after every over because a new bowler bowls each over and he has to get to the wicket (that is the only lapse in the action). There is a break when a wicket falls because the new batsman has to get to the wicket (that is the only lapse in the action). There are drinks breaks because players running throughout a day need to drink (the drinks breaks last about 5 mins each).

 

Which is finally a great example of media companies here getting it right. ESPN's lead baseball guy, Dave O'Brien, led their 2006 World Cup coverage and was awful. He just wasn't a soccer guy. So rather than try to appeal to the lowest common denominator in 2010, they brought in the guys you mentioned, guys who will present the sport as-is and not dumb it down for the knuckle-dragging NASCAR fans that might be tuning in. Ian Darke has since been poached to cover the US national team for ESPN and does EPL commentaries for them. They're getting it right.

My goal is to be the first listenable American soccer commentator for one of the national TV networks here. The bar has been set pretty low up to this point.