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I had put Mr. Gumbel's soft #### commentary behind me in the offseason. Listening to him just now brought back memories of suck-ness.Ugh...this guy sucks.
Gumbel is the pits.
Watch USC-Arizona State and follow the NFL game online
Seriously?
Who really cares? Im sure Collinsworth can call a game with a few drinks in him better than Gumbel
This is true.
Right before the game. His mic was open he said it and they cut to Rich Eisen.
I had put Mr. Gumbel's soft #### commentary behind me in the offseason. Listening to him just now brought back memories of suck-ness.Ugh...this guy sucks.
Almost every Ravens game, particularly their last MN (or SN) game they talk about how he was supposedly an offensive genius. I've been hearing about it all the time, especially the irony that D has always carried his team.
That's what I mean, that supposedly he WAS a genuis in MIN... I don't really hear anyone saying that about him now. Just seems kind of weird he chose Baltimore of all places, I guess.
besides gumbel, i dont know anyone else who is monotone and has a soft play-by-play style. Besides primetime games, pretty much every game i watch has a solid play-by-play and a former player.
That's a good thing. Especially when it's one like Erin Andrews or Bonnie Bernstein.
Pat Summerall has a monotone voice also. Not as bad as Gumbel, but I never liked him either.
In the daily e-mail "Random Shots", J must have heard it too. He wrote:The NFL Network kicked off their game broadcasts this week. As expected, they had some kinks to work out. As they came back from commercial break, Bryant Gumbel didn't realize his mic was live and you could clearly hear him joke with someone on the set saying, "You drinking on the job again?"
i'm one of the guys that doesn't need some one to tell what is going on in a football game so i generally mute the sound, tonight i turned it up for 10-15 minutes...to be honest don't hear anything that is so bad coming from gumbel's mouth. if you don't like him change the station and watch CSI or hit the MUTE, don't really care which but lets not start this same thread next week. get over it.
What ever you say sir.Or better yet, if you don't like the thread don't look at it!i'm one of the guys that doesn't need some one to tell what is going on in a football game so i generally mute the sound, tonight i turned it up for 10-15 minutes...to be honest don't hear anything that is so bad coming from gumbel's mouth. if you don't like him change the station and watch CSI or hit the MUTE, don't really care which but lets not start this same thread next week. get over it.
I was going to say that he's like Burt (from Burt and Ernie). Gumbel gives a sense of what it would be like to have the muppets doing NFL commentary. Great for the gradeschool crowd, not so much for the beer-drinking boys down at your local watering hole.
And yet he is so much better than the ESPN Monday Night crew.I had put Mr. Gumbel's soft #### commentary behind me in the offseason. Listening to him just now brought back memories of suck-ness.Ugh...this guy sucks.
Or how about him saying the M. McCarthy (GB Coach) (SP?) thinks M. Barber is the heart and soul of the Packers offense??WHAT???
I don't think that word means what they think it means.Anyway Gumbel kepted saying the Packers when he meant the Cowboys last night, did it two or three times and it annoyed me. Minor detail but come on. Collinsworth is good but you can just FEEL his contempt for Gumbel. Gumbel is a tourist. You need people that eat live and breath nothing but football. What exactly about being on the Today show makes you uniquely qualified to commentate a high profile NFL game?
TD5150 said:
I was picturing Collinsworth Face after this comment.. I TIVO'd it to see if he really said that... It's like Gumbel has canned liitle speeches to say after every lead in and he grabbed the wrong one...Then he tried to justify it later by saying it again while trying to change the emphasis that surely wasn't clear the 1st time he said it....HORRIBLE.... Reminds me of the corny Madden Video game canned phrases......Absolutely. If you don't like a horrible announcer, you should turn the game off an watch something else, missing the game enitrely. Good call.Duke1948 said:if you don't like him change the station and watch CSI or hit the MUTE, don't really care which but lets not start this same thread next week. get over it.
