Michaels and Madden spent almost the whole night talking about how wonderful the Patriots. I mean they went on and on and on and on.
At first I liked it. After all I am a diehard New England fan. But after awhile it got nauseating. I kept wondering how awful it has to be for the Buffalo and other fans.
Those guys gushed over Brady, Moss, and all the others the whole friggin’ night.
I remember how there were times (all the time, in fact) when I wanted to wring Phil Rizzuto’s neck for his crowing about the Yankees. Maybe that’s part of the reason why I don’t like the sportscasters who are talking and writing nonstop about how great the Pats are.
Turn about supposed to be fair play, but I find it uncomfortable. You fans of other team…your time will come.
Except for you smug fuckers who still lurve the Yankees.
I can’t answer your Yankee rants until late today. Baby-sitting our grandkids.
Yeah, it was pretty ridiculous. I’m a big fan of Tom Brady since I managed to get him on my FF team. But, you’d think he was the 2nd coming of Christ the way they were going on about him.
Yeah, I think it’s a case of knob-polishing inflation. They have been hyping up mediocrity for so long, that when a talented player is having a good game, they have to go to max-knob-polish. So they just have no scope left to decribe a team that is trulyy dominant, and has players having a far-the-best-of-all-time season.
NFL Network is going to carry the Pats/Giants game in week 16. Should the Pats be the first to go 16 and 0, you won’t see it unless you’ve got satellite. Same with the Packers/Cowboys game coming up (much of Wisconsin’s w/o NFLN) and a few others, actually.
Well, normally, I would hope NBC flexes out of such a lopsided contest, but I might enjoy watching the Eagles get thrashed while I hope the Pats break the scoring record of 73 points by one team in one game. I don’t like the Eagles.
The NFL is incredibly lame this year. If it wasn’t, Green Bay wouldn’t 9-1. Plus you have the bearing of the rotten fruit of bad decisions on some teams’ part, ala San Diego.
This year is going to be weird. New England is going to set all kinds of records of excellence, which of course won’t factor in the fact that a large number of NFL teams this year are just JV punks.
I’ll admit it, I’m not a big football fan. I’ll happily watch football with other people–assuming that reading a book, or doing counted cross-stitch is permitted–but left to my own devices, I tend to not pay enough attention to the game to make it worth turning on.
So I didn’t watch last night’s game. But I did watch the Pats-Colts game a couple of weeks ago. And I’ll admit to a fondness for the Colts, and Peyton Manning in particular–which is a significant part of why I was watching the game.
Still, I had a few grievances with the announcers. Some were silly, I know Randy Moss has been traded (at least once), but I still associate him with the Vikings and object to him playing for another team.
But the amount of adulation which Brady recieved–and the predictions of what he will achieve by the end of the season–made me almost wish him to be injured. Which I felt bad about, I mean, it’s not so much his on-field performance that was bothering me as the reactions of other people to his performance. But I still found myself almost wishing for a serious but not career threatening injury.
(And I was thrilled that (IIRC) Brady was proudest of his 2 interceptions statistic, and ended up getting a couple more interceptions by the end of the game).
The thing is, though, the Patriots and Brady have been that good. They fully deserve the accolades. Problem is, that leaves the announcers with nothing left to say. The games become boring not just because garbage time begins about halfway through the second quarter, but because the hopelessness of the situation has a stultifying effect on the announcers.
At one point I think late in the 3rd quarter they were discussing the fact that the referee of the game had reffed a game involving the Bills (I think) last week, and this was the first time in NFL history that someone had reffed the same team in consecutive weeks. Or something. Then Michaels says, “If you’ve just joined us and are wondering what we’re talking about…well, just look at the score.”
I’m not a big football fan, but I do enjoy having a game on during the weekend while I’m doing other things, so hopefully someone here can answer my (possibly stupid) question.
At the beginning of the 4th quarter (IIRC), the Patriots were already at 56: 10, and they had a 4th down, really close to the end zone. I think they decided to try and run it (and didn’t get the touchdown), but I thought they should have gone for the field goal, because just about 10 minutes before the announcers pointed out that 56 points in the game was a franchise record. Do they just not care about beating records like that, or did they really think they’d get the touchdown on the fourth down? Or did they just not want to embarrass the Bills more than they had to, and figured they’d take the more difficult option rather than burying them more than they already had? I figured if a field goal was all it took to beat a record, you might as well do it, because it’s not like it matters what the other team manages to do in the minutes remaining.
I also have a theory that if your name (or surname) is some variant of Paton/Peyton or Brady/Brody, then there exists some law stating that you must be a football player.
Here in CT we have two NBC Channels: Channel 4 in NYC and 6 somewhere in CT.
I was watching the Pats-Buffalo game last night on Channel 6 and for some unknown reason, while the game was in the 3rd period, I decided to tune into Channel 4.
On Channel 4 the game was still in the 2nd period. I flipped back and forth between the two channels a couple-three times and it was always the same. Ch 4 was still in the 2nd,
Ch 6 was in the 3rd.
How come? They were supposed to start their coverage at the same time.
I think you’ve nailed it here. It seems as if words such as “legendary” and “classic” get dragged out way, way too often these days. It’s like eating off of your best china at every meal - first it gets old, then a little nicked up, then completely meaningless.
