Can someone please explain to me how this guy keeps a job? What language is he trying to speak? For those old enough to remember the show ZOOM, on PBS, he sounds like he’s speaking ubbie-dubbie. However, for most of the english speaking world, he simply can’t speak and think at the same time. I personally think his tongue is too big for his mouth, as when he speaks, it sounds like his mouth is full of food.
He also gets so many things wrong, it is distracting. He reverses words constantly, as if he has verbal dyslexia. “J.B., the Steelers have to hang onto the win to ball the game.”
:dubious:
It’s been a decade. He’s had his chance. Can CBS just pull the plug on this boob? Or maybe they can boob the plug on this pull?
Note: Not sure where to put this, as it could go in cafe society or the pit also…
Yeah, he’s a fucking joke. It’s pretty embarrassing when you make Micheal Irvin and Deion Sanders look competent.
CBS and Fox need to completely ditch their current formats. Having 5 guys blathering and unable to form coherent sentences is ridiculous. They can’t even have a conversation without interrupting one another or hoping between topic with canned one-liners. I’m shocked to say that NBC has actually come closest to the mark in doing it right. There should be 2 guys running the halftime and pregame shows like it’s Sportscenter and they should be broadcasters, not former coaches and players. Bring in those guys as guests who you interview or as experts who get to diagram a play like a weather man. Not co-hosts.
These pregame shows make me so angry. I’m a little surprised that the NFL Network has fallen into the same trap, especially since I think Rich Eisen is so good.
Yeah, the 5 retarded former players trying to scream over each other for 45 minutes while we show 9 minutes of highlight format is a scourge on sports. Who likes that shit? They’re always in such a rush to get over with the highlights so they can go back to having idiots spout the same cliches at each other.
I could understand if CBS had Shannon there to bring a receiver’s POV and analysis to the game. But having him provide the comprehensive highlights… that’s just mean.
Sharpe is bad, but a lot of the retired players are just not good on camera. I think Fox’s “show every highlight from 12 games in one minute” feature is the worst. Usually you get this from Terry Bradshaw: “San Diego! Atlanta! Matt Ryan! Touchdown! Atlanta wins. Green Bay, Detroit. Aaron Rodgers! Greg Jennings! Touchdown! Packers 28, Lions 17.” Who needs this?
You’ll get no disagrievance on this subject from me. I think the current format with 5 or 6 guys occasionally mentioning football in between all the yucking it up seemed played out a years ago. It must work though, since the networks keep doing it. They should keep it to 3 guys tops, maybe bring in a fourth player or coach for analysis or to walk us through a play. Show us more football and less Frank Calliendo, he adds nothing to the show but overplayed John Madden and awful Jack Nicholson impressions.
Shannon Sharpe? Meh… standard ex-athlete on a sports show. Sharpe can be occasionally… rarely, but occasionally… funny.
Caliendo though, ugh. Good g-d he is an affront to humanity… he isn’t even unintentionally or ironically funny in any way, shape, or form There are just no words for how bad that Letterman thing was.
Thanks for pointing this out. ESPN, Fox Sports, etc., lost me years ago with the whole banal, unprofessional, meathead approach to their programming. It doesn’t have to be pseudo-intellectual or anything, just not quite so stupid and childish. Has professional sports journalism become a oxymoron? And while you’re respectfully informing Sharpe that his services are no longer required, for the love of god do something with Chris Berman. “Back, back, back, back, back, back, back!”
I was trying to figure out if that was meant to be funny at all. It was so painfully un-funny, I thought I was missing some kind of point they were making or that maybe they were taking the world’s worst jab at Letterman. The entire Top 10 bit sucked all the anticipation for football out of the room.
And then cutting back to the guys forcefully laughing it up was almost as painful. I would have had a bit more respect for any of them if I saw slack-jawed expressions of horror, as if their very souls had been ripped away by the black hole of anti-comedy generated by that bit.