11 things that I hate in the NFL, fantasy and the media (1 Viewer)

[⚡DEADHEAD⚡]

Just for the hell of it. Not in any particular order:

1. The Dallas Cowboys/Jerry Jones

2. The theme music on Sunday Night Football. Awful.

3. Joe Theisman - I thought we got rid of that guy.

4. Mike Singletary's coachspeak/rhetoric.

5. Hank Williams - enough already. How many more years of this crap? Give me the classic start used in the Howard Cosell days.

6. The 1972 Miami Dolphins and their champagne crap.

7. Eli Manning's pouty, whiny face after throwing an incompletion.

8. Kickers in fantasy football

9. Al Davis, post-1980 Super Bowl.

10. The possibility/probability of a player's strike or lockout in 2011.

11. The interplay between Deion and Irvin on the NFL Network. When they're not paired up, they're just decent analysts. When they are on the same set, it turns into these two jibba-jabbin' back and forth.

Glad to see the NFL and fantasy move away from some of these. Of course, there are new ones. For starters:

12. "What the heck flex" - lazy, copout "analysis." People pay for this crap?

 

[cvnpoka]

2. The theme music on Sunday Night Football. Awful.

failgenerally agree with the rest tho.

 

[NJJets]

5. Hank Williams - enough already. How many more years of this crap? Give me the classic start used in the Howard Cosell days.

When did they dig him up he died in 1953. It's Hank Williams JR. who does the cheesy MNF music

 

[Godsbrother]

2. The theme music on Sunday Night Football. Awful.

failgenerally agree with the rest tho.

You like the theme music on SNF? Really??? It is gawd awful and really annoying. They couldn't even come up with something original...

 

[switz]

2. The theme music on Sunday Night Football. Awful.

failgenerally agree with the rest tho.

I hate the SNF music... I'll add #12 - the way FF forums attract people who still act like they're in grade school

 

[Sabertooth]

The Hank Williams Jr. thing where he cocks his fist is particularly annoying. To be honest, I can't think of on other song this guy has ever done.

 

[spitkickers]

The Fox transformer dancing air guitar playing stupid robots.

 

[Clifford]

2. The theme music on Sunday Night Football. Awful.

failgenerally agree with the rest tho.

Wow. I never thought I would ever meet anyone who actually likes that cheesy, ridiculous intro.

 

[delusional]

Roger and his passion to try and fix everything that isnt broken.

Super Bowl rings deciding a players "greatness"

Recievers having no "INT" stat.

People forgetting that the Pats cheated.

 

[Clifford]

The Fox transformer dancing air guitar playing stupid robots.

x infinity

 

[unckeyherb]

The Fox transformer dancing air guitar playing stupid robots.

+100. I'd like to kill whoever came up with that idiotic bit.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

The Hank Williams Jr. thing where he cocks his fist is particularly annoying. To be honest, I can't think of on other song this guy has ever done.

He's been living off of that & his daddy's name his whole career.

 

[notdarkyet]

The Fox transformer dancing air guitar playing stupid robots.

Thank you.

 

[switz]

Roger and his passion to try and fix everything that isnt broken. Super Bowl rings deciding a players "greatness"Recievers having no "INT" stat.People forgetting that the Pats cheated.

on all 4

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

.11. The interplay between Deion and Irvin on the NFL Network. When they're not paired up, they're just decent analysts. When they are on the same set, it turns into these two jibba-jabbin' back and forth. Edit to add #11.

#11 You know why they do this right? The want to play to the inner city audience. I can't think of any other reason.

 

[Cunk]

Roger and his passion to try and fix everything that isnt broken.

Super Bowl rings deciding a players "greatness"

Recievers having no "INT" stat.

People forgetting that the Pats cheated.

Please tell me this is sarcasm. I rarely read any thread about the Pats without someone bringing this up.

 

[RobMexico]

The Fox transformer dancing air guitar playing stupid robots.

Yes! I actually saw at the store they sell "team" versions of the robots as toys/collectibles. I'd like to buy one just to destroy it 'battle bots' style.

 

[Glatty]

The Fox transformer dancing air guitar playing stupid robots.

Most of FOX's animations/graphics are over-the-top and distracting.

 

[Late225]

The Fox transformer dancing air guitar playing stupid robots.

Most of FOX's animations/graphics are over-the-top and distracting.

That the Fox Transformer's name is "Cleatus"...and that apparently, they sell these

 

[Cunk]

1. Dan Deirdorf going on and on at what a competitor someone is after making a good play.

2. Chris Berman's 2 voices. Normal voice then gurgly voice.

3. Challenges. Ruins the flow/excitement of the game. I'm willing to deal with botched calls rather than have to wait 10 minutes after an exciting touchdown to be able to count it as a touchdown.

4. Trade ignorers.

 

[DawgPoundNJ]

My List:

1) Chris Berman. Stop the over the top nickname schtick that died years ago. Take a shower, buy a new suit and tie or two, and tone it down. Please.

1A) Adam Schein. Use your real voice, don't try to be Howard Cosell.

2) Come on, man! AWFUL bit.

3) The Fox robots. Good call above.

4) The Jared and Every Kiss Begins with Kay commercials that they will try to hit the guys with come Christmas time and the playoffs as Valentine's Day approaches. No Jane Seymour, no one wants your double heart pendant that looks like a symmetrical sack-o-nuts around their neck.

5) Fantasy football sites and media that assume everyone is in an 8 or a 10 man league where rockstars are just waiting for you on the waiver wire.

6) Brett Favre drama.

 

[Late225]

My List:1) Chris Berman. Stop the over the top nickname schtick that died years ago. Take a shower, buy a new suit and tie or two, and tone it down. Please.1A) Adam Schein. Use your real voice, don't try to be Howard Cosell. 2) Come on, man! AWFUL bit.3) The Fox robots. Good call above.4) The Jared and Every Kiss Begins with Kay commercials that they will try to hit the guys with come Christmas time and the playoffs as Valentine's Day approaches. No Jane Seymour, no one wants your double heart pendant that looks like a symmetrical sack-o-nuts around their neck. 5) Fantasy football sites and media that assume everyone is in an 8 or a 10 man league where rockstars are just waiting for you on the waiver wire.6) Brett Favre drama.

1 & 2 are probably my two favorite aspects of football these days.

 

[DawgPoundNJ]

My List:1) Chris Berman. Stop the over the top nickname schtick that died years ago. Take a shower, buy a new suit and tie or two, and tone it down. Please.1A) Adam Schein. Use your real voice, don't try to be Howard Cosell. 2) Come on, man! AWFUL bit.3) The Fox robots. Good call above.4) The Jared and Every Kiss Begins with Kay commercials that they will try to hit the guys with come Christmas time and the playoffs as Valentine's Day approaches. No Jane Seymour, no one wants your double heart pendant that looks like a symmetrical sack-o-nuts around their neck. 5) Fantasy football sites and media that assume everyone is in an 8 or a 10 man league where rockstars are just waiting for you on the waiver wire.6) Brett Favre drama.

1 & 2 are probably my two favorite aspects of football these days.

So you like Berman and Schein screaming at you, and you like Come on, man? Forcing Ditka to do that is cringeworthy.

 

[bearsharks]

Truck, beer, Viagra commercials. The corporatization of sport. Old jocks in expensive suits.

 

[dennis.moore]

Joe Theismann is a great broadcaster. It was a shame that Paul and him got canned. Quality TV.

 

[mr roboto]

.11. The interplay between Deion and Irvin on the NFL Network. When they're not paired up, they're just decent analysts. When they are on the same set, it turns into these two jibba-jabbin' back and forth. Edit to add #11.

#11 You know why they do this right? The want to play to the inner city audience. I can't think of any other reason.

Racist. Bunch 'a jive talkin' turkeys on TV...

 

[Late225]

My List:1) Chris Berman. Stop the over the top nickname schtick that died years ago. Take a shower, buy a new suit and tie or two, and tone it down. Please.1A) Adam Schein. Use your real voice, don't try to be Howard Cosell. 2) Come on, man! AWFUL bit.3) The Fox robots. Good call above.4) The Jared and Every Kiss Begins with Kay commercials that they will try to hit the guys with come Christmas time and the playoffs as Valentine's Day approaches. No Jane Seymour, no one wants your double heart pendant that looks like a symmetrical sack-o-nuts around their neck. 5) Fantasy football sites and media that assume everyone is in an 8 or a 10 man league where rockstars are just waiting for you on the waiver wire.6) Brett Favre drama.

1 & 2 are probably my two favorite aspects of football these days.

So you like Berman and Schein screaming at you, and you like Come on, man? Forcing Ditka to do that is cringeworthy.

Berman yes - my post had no mention of 1a - DA RAIDERS!!! And you couldn't be more right about Ditka, it's funny how weird he looks.

 

[DawgPoundNJ]

My List:1) Chris Berman. Stop the over the top nickname schtick that died years ago. Take a shower, buy a new suit and tie or two, and tone it down. Please.1A) Adam Schein. Use your real voice, don't try to be Howard Cosell. 2) Come on, man! AWFUL bit.3) The Fox robots. Good call above.4) The Jared and Every Kiss Begins with Kay commercials that they will try to hit the guys with come Christmas time and the playoffs as Valentine's Day approaches. No Jane Seymour, no one wants your double heart pendant that looks like a symmetrical sack-o-nuts around their neck. 5) Fantasy football sites and media that assume everyone is in an 8 or a 10 man league where rockstars are just waiting for you on the waiver wire.6) Brett Favre drama.

1 & 2 are probably my two favorite aspects of football these days.

So you like Berman and Schein screaming at you, and you like Come on, man? Forcing Ditka to do that is cringeworthy.

Berman yes - my post had no mention of 1a - DA RAIDERS!!!

I love what the Raiders are doing but this and "THE NEW YAWK FOOTBALL GIANTS" coming out of Berman's mouth makes me :X

 

[Tom Servo]

1. All things Berman

2. 3 or 4 hours of MNF pregame shows - really? Complete with more hype ERRR "team updates" every 20 minutes

3. "If you're tuning in to see '60 Minutes', it'll be on after football except on the west coast when it'll be on at it's regular time." Can't we just start this at 8 PM? How many stinking years have I heard this on CBS? 30? 40? You move the late games to 4:15 and you think it'll be done BEFORE 7 PM? C'mon MAN!

4. Phil Simms & Dan Dierdorf.

 

[ourmanflint]

2. The theme music on Sunday Night Football. Awful.

failgenerally agree with the rest tho.

Wow. I never thought I would ever meet anyone who actually likes that cheesy, ridiculous intro.

It wasn't so awful when Pink did it. She actually had the voice for that song. The one singing it now has nowhere near the voice for that song.Irregardless why do we need intros to football games? What does it add?

 

[kylechoffman]

Add collinsworth and joe buck to that list..

 

[Sister Havana]

My List:4) The Jared and Every Kiss Begins with Kay commercials that they will try to hit the guys with come Christmas time and the playoffs as Valentine's Day approaches. No Jane Seymour, no one wants your double heart pendant that looks like a symmetrical sack-o-nuts around their neck. 6) Brett Favre drama.

TOTALLY agree with these. -Viagra and Cialis commercials-Tout commercials on the radio for Monday Night Football: "One thousand percent lock! You can move on this like the game has already been played!" EVERY week. Really, if I had information that foolproof I'd be keeping it to myself, not sharing it with everyone who calls a toll-free number! And while I'm at it...any commercial, promo, etc. that promotes the stereotype that women HATE football and our big goal in life is to keep our husbands/boyfriends away from the game by making them go shopping/do chores or something similar. NOT TRUE. In my house it would be harder to tear ME away from the game to do something else.

 

[Masked Vigilante]

1. Dan Deirdorf going on and on at what a competitor someone is after making a good play.

2. Chris Berman's 2 voices. Normal voice then gurgly voice.

3. Challenges. Ruins the flow/excitement of the game. I'm willing to deal with botched calls rather than have to wait 10 minutes after an exciting touchdown to be able to count it as a touchdown.

4. Trade ignorers.

His on-air fawning over superstar players (Brady, Manning etc) is borderline pornographic.

 

[Da Guru]

Chris Collinsworth says "helmet to helmet" 100 times a broadcast now. Every tackle "Looked like that may be a helmet to helmet hit" "No I guess it was not helmet to helmet..he got the shoulder"

Mooch trying to out jive Sanders on the NFL Network highlights..it does not work well. Heck Sanders jive does not even work well.

 

[ThaPenguin]

2. The theme music on Sunday Night Football. Awful.

failgenerally agree with the rest tho.

Wow. I never thought I would ever meet anyone who actually likes that cheesy, ridiculous intro.

It wasn't so awful when Pink did it. She actually had the voice for that song. The one singing it now has nowhere near the voice for that song.Irregardless why do we need intros to football games? What does it add?

Faith Hill. And I would rather look at her than P!nk, so I deal with it.

 

[HughHoney]

Berman picking against the steelers every single week. If his picks were correct the Steelers would have been 1-15 the last three years.

 

[username]

12. lists

 

[wormburner]

3. Joe Theisman - I thought we got rid of that guy.

Blasphemy! (see first half of sig)The wave. Works in baseball, doesn't belong in a football stadium.

 

[Sweet Love]

3. Joe Theisman - I thought we got rid of that guy.

Blasphemy! (see first half of sig)The wave. Works in baseball, doesn't belong in a football stadium.

Why? The shape of a football stadium, in my eyes, actually makes for a more esthetic wave than that of a baseball stadium. Neither are explosive sports (by that, I mean they each have major breaks in action) compared to basketball and hockey.

 

[Clifford]

My List:

4) The Jared and Every Kiss Begins with Kay commercials that they will try to hit the guys with come Christmas time and the playoffs as Valentine's Day approaches. No Jane Seymour, no one wants your double heart pendant that looks like a symmetrical sack-o-nuts around their neck.

6) Brett Favre drama.

TOTALLY agree with these.

-Viagra and Cialis commercials

-Tout commercials on the radio for Monday Night Football: "One thousand percent lock! You can move on this like the game has already been played!" EVERY week. Really, if I had information that foolproof I'd be keeping it to myself, not sharing it with everyone who calls a toll-free number!

And while I'm at it...any commercial, promo, etc. that promotes the stereotype that women HATE football and our big goal in life is to keep our husbands/boyfriends away from the game by making them go shopping/do chores or something similar. NOT TRUE. In my house it would be harder to tear ME away from the game to do something else.

Can I come live in your house?

 

[Clifford]

2. The theme music on Sunday Night Football. Awful.

failgenerally agree with the rest tho.

Wow. I never thought I would ever meet anyone who actually likes that cheesy, ridiculous intro.

It wasn't so awful when Pink did it. She actually had the voice for that song. The one singing it now has nowhere near the voice for that song.Irregardless why do we need intros to football games? What does it add?

Faith Hill. And I would rather look at her than P!nk, so I deal with it.

You gotta be kidding me. Should I start a list of "words that don't exist" thread?

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

1. Steve Young

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11. Steve Young

 

[wormburner]

3. Joe Theisman - I thought we got rid of that guy.

Blasphemy! (see first half of sig)The wave. Works in baseball, doesn't belong in a football stadium.

Why? The shape of a football stadium, in my eyes, actually makes for a more esthetic wave than that of a baseball stadium.

Esthetic wave? I'm thinking there's a Football Man Law somewhere that ought to come into play here. The Master explains it better than I can here.

 

[jackdubl]

2. The theme music on Sunday Night Football. Awful.

failgenerally agree with the rest tho.

That's my favorite of the football themes. Dun Dun Da Da Duuuuuun Dun, Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da!

 

[Sagan]

I do get very tired of games with Favre in it becoming ALL ABOUT FAVRE every time. Even with the MIN defense is on the field. It gets old about halfway through the first quarter.

 

[DawgPoundNJ]

2. The theme music on Sunday Night Football. Awful.

failgenerally agree with the rest tho.

That's my favorite of the football themes. Dun Dun Da Da Duuuuuun Dun, Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da!

The Monday Night Theme song in which you are referring to rocks.They are referring to Faith Hill singing "I've been waiting all day for Sunday Night..." to Joan Jett's I Hate Myself for Loving You. I honestly change the channel when it's on because the annoyingness trumps Faith Hill's hotness.

 

[Dizzy]

Just for the hell of it. Not in any particular order:

1. The Dallas Cowboys/Jerry Jones

2. The theme music on Sunday Night Football. Awful.

3. Joe Theisman - I thought we got rid of that guy.

4. Mike Singletary's coachspeak/rhetoric.

5. Hank Williams - enough already. How many more years of this crap? Give me the classic start used in the Howard Cosell days.

6. The 1972 Miami Dolphins and their champagne crap.

7. Eli Manning's pouty, whiny face after throwing an incompletion.

8. Kickers in fantasy football

9. Al Davis, post-1980 Super Bowl.

10. The possibility/probability of a player's strike or lockout in 2011.

11. The interplay between Deion and Irvin on the NFL Network. When they're not paired up, they're just decent analysts. When they are on the same set, it turns into these two jibba-jabbin' back and forth.

Edit to add #11

Nice list. I like all of these... some more than others.Couldn't agree more with #2... cheesy *bleeping* rip-off of Joan Jett's I Hate Myself for Loving You... only made 10 times more painful being associated with COUNTRY music!

Her father-in-law was cool though.

#11 as well... those two together is just bad TV

 

[Pigskin Fanatic]

The Fox transformer dancing air guitar playing stupid robots.

Most of FOX's animations/graphics are over-the-top and distracting.

That the Fox Transformer's name is "Cleatus"...and that apparently, they sell these

i hate the thing on tv...but i want one of those!

 

[NJJets]

2. The theme music on Sunday Night Football. Awful.

failgenerally agree with the rest tho.

That's my favorite of the football themes. Dun Dun Da Da Duuuuuun Dun, Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da!

The Monday Night Theme song in which you are referring to rocks.They are referring to Faith Hill singing "I've been waiting all day for Sunday Night..." to Joan Jett's I Hate Myself for Loving You. I honestly change the channel when it's on because the annoyingness trumps Faith Hill's hotness.

That's what the mute button is for so you can get the "Eye Candy" without the annoying singing

 

[Masked Vigilante]

2. The theme music on Sunday Night Football. Awful.

failgenerally agree with the rest tho.

That's my favorite of the football themes. Dun Dun Da Da Duuuuuun Dun, Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da!

The Monday Night Theme song in which you are referring to rocks.They are referring to Faith Hill singing "I've been waiting all day for Sunday Night..." to Joan Jett's I Hate Myself for Loving You. I honestly change the channel when it's on because the annoyingness trumps Faith Hill's hotness.

That's what the mute button is for so you can get the "Eye Candy" without the annoying singing

I just hit the SAP button and giggle.