Who Hired These Guys?
“Did you see what happened Joe?” “No Troy I was busy Monologuing.”
My boy is on point again in his latest blog. Thanks to Matt Lubisich of TheSportsLube.com for this latest diddy.
The first 2 weeks of Playoff football have been miserable featuring 6 blowouts, 2 close games and an endless amount of mind numbing commentary from the so-called experts. How on earth do these people keep their jobs? I sometimes mute the TV and just watch the game because the alternative leads you to a few of the following wonderful nuggets from this last weekend….
In the pregame show of the Jets-Chargers game Phil Simms said the key to the game for the Jets was to “Fear all the Chargers Options.” Well there’s a hell of a gameplan. So if Simms was the coach he would address his guys at practice and before the game telling them, “Fear the Chargers.” Um thanks coach. How is that analyzing anything? Simms had all week to come up with something interesting to say and that’s what he came up with. Just fear them. Since the Jets won does that mean that they played scared the whole game? Way to go Phil.
Next was a great incident in the Dallas-Minnesota game where Tony Romo fumbled a snap and Troy Aikman went on for over a minute about how one of the Vikings linemen got in and disrupted the play forcing the fumble. Troy, who had more than a few concussions in his day, obviously has an active imagination because it was clear to everyone else that Romo just dropped the ball and no one was close to him. Perhaps Troy had dozed off and the crowd woke him up so he had to say something.
I can’t totally blame Troy for that though. If I had to sit in a booth for 3 hours listening to Joe Buck talk my mind would wander too. Buck is possibly the worst commentator in the universe. He drones on about nothing, he has no inflection in his voice and he never gets excited. Seriously Joe, pop a viagra before the next big game and see what happens. Joe’s ideal woman would have to be a blowup doll because it’s lifeless and he can do all the talking.
The system of finding commentators is broken. The only reason Joe Buck has a job is because his dad was a famous commentator. The only reason Simms and Aikman have jobs is because they were famous quarterbacks. But that does not mean that they should be commentating sports games. To play sports you need to have talent, why should commentating on sports be different?
Always remember, a little Lube goes a long way.
