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Weirdest Sports Commentators
somebody else do it said 11/13, 01:26 AM
Every argument post three weird sport commentators and defend them
Chris Berman - famous for his grating player nicknames and tendency to quote songs no one under the age of forty has ever heard. More renowned in this decade for his sexual exploits, exemplified in the famous "You're with Me, Leather" story, in which Bearman successfully picked up a woman wearing a leather jacket at a bar with that excat line. Since then the phrase has been slyly quoted in various media outlets.
Terry Bradshaw - bald, warbling yokel analyst for FOX Sports who somehow turned his appearances on FOX NFL Sunday into a pseudo - acting career. His major film role was in Failure to Launch, appearing nude next to Kathy Bates
John Clayton - Tweedy ESPN NFL reporter with an unusually large cranium. Spends most of his time trying to not get stuffed in locker by his colleagues.
rstowe said 11/13, 06:56 AM
First and foremost it has to be Joe Theismann. LT did the world a disservice by breaking this guy's leg and creating one of the worst NFL announcers EVER. He's as much of a geniuis as Norman Einstein is.
Next up is someone who used to be great; 15 years ago. His love for Turduckens, Tinactin, Ace Hardware and Brett Favre not withstanding, this game has seriously passed him by.
And finally, to round out my top 3, it has to be Joe "I can't remember a damn thing about my playing career" Morgan. How many announcers have a website calling for them to be fired? How many former players turned announcers constantly get facts regarding their own careers WRONG? How many announcers will blindly defend someone strictly because of they are of the same race? How many announcers constantly contradict themselves as to what makes a good ballplayers, 2nd baseman etc? Joe Morgan has done all this and is the biggest reason ESPN's Wednesday Night Baseball is watched on Mute all over the country.
somebody else do it said 11/13, 03:28 PM
Lee Corso - gimmicky college football analyst for ESPN whose trick is to wear mascot masks on his head while making predictions. For whatever reason, he inspired fans at College GameDay live locations to wave LEE CORSO IS A **** signs behind his head. Strangely promotes making crayons out of soy bean and has a day job producing No. 2 pencils.
Eric Dickerson - former rams running back who spent one ill - fated year as a sideline reporter for Monday Night Football despite his difficulties with the English language. Often compared sentenances with fifteen or sixteen syllables into one glorious cuisinarted mash-up.
Michael Irvin - Hall of Fame wide reciever who parlayed his beaten and confused by cocaine and hookers personality into a gig as one of ESPN's top NFL analysts. Incoherent and visibly paranoid, he consistently talks his colleagues into a stupor and has a tendency to get busted for having drugs on his person every two years or so. Once said Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo was so quick that he must have had a black slave ancestor. "His great great great great grandma must have pulled one of them studs up outta the barn and said, Come here for a second," went the quote.
rstowe said 11/14, 07:08 AM
My next 3:
Emmit Smith, Michael Irvin and Deion Sanders
These guys all have 1 thing in common; former players who have no freaking clue what it takes to be a good analyst etc. You can barely understand them and when you do, you have to ask yourself, "What the hell did he just say?". Irvin and Sanders are known more for how they dress on the sets than any actual knowledge they give out. Plus they're all former Cowboys, and everyone except Cowboys fans, hates all former Cowboys.
These are considered some of the best ever at their own positions, yet, they can't breakdown a play to save their lives. Irvin is the best of this group, but it takes a boatload (or a trunkload) of coke and a room full of underrage hookers just to get him motivated to show up to work.
somebody else do it said 11/14, 01:11 PM
Oh come on, I already used Michael Irvin.
O.J. Simpson - Former Heisman Trophy Winner
Tony Kornheiser - Longtime Washington Post reporter whose show Pardon the Interruption rocketed him into a multimedia career, including a wretched short lived CBS sitcom called Listen Up, which featured the comedic start pairing of Jason Alexander and Malcolm Jamal Warner. Eventually became the would be Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football, though his mostly consists of making jokes about fantasy football, awkwardly interviewing in booth celebrities, and generally disappointing his many media friends who were all rooting for him to succeed. Bald.
Stuart Scott - Lazy eyed ESPN bro dawg, noted for his annoying attempts to introduce his particular form of slang to an unwilling audience. At ESPN's New Year's Eve special he berated fans for booing athletes.
rstowe said 11/14, 01:29 PM
My final 3 (and who cares if you already used Irvin, no where did you say I couldn't use the same 3 as you):
Marv Albert - how can you not have the guy who patented the Yes! call (for making baskets and for biting women)
Stuart Scott - the whitest black guy trying to act "black" in all of sports announcing
Dennis Miller - listening to him call a game is like TDing against Bigalke, you never know what half the words mean and what exactly he is talking about
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Ironic that this shows up right next to my commentating blunders TD, eh?
=P
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Jim Rome is pretty weird and stupid with his mono tone rants.....
BoSox1045K
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What do you mean by "weird announcers"? Bad? Stupid? Just a little offbeat?
If we're talking about whol is the worst, no one tops Joe Morgan. Anyone from TBS baseball and Tim McCarver would be close seconds.
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The Triangle, NC
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Weird as in doing weird stupid stuff
somebody else do it
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I see that this isn't a very popular td.
somebody else do it
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Joe Buck. He's like Toad from American Graffiti on steroids who thinks the chicks love him. How about the "Orgamsic One" Gary Thorne?
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I was going to use Joe Buck in my third argument.
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Emmitt Smith. For someone who spent his whole life playing football. its pretty "weird" he's unable to come up with literally one coherant thought while discussing or analyzing football.
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I have to vote right, simply because SEDI has no clue about Terry Bradshaw's acting career. Long before he appeared in that sappy, pathetic chick flick, Terry costarred alongside man's man (and famous stutterer) Mel Tellis as (you guessed it) two yokels driving a poorly concealed stock car in Hal Needham's 1981 classic "Cannonball Run". Because you didn't know that, not only am I voting right, but I have to ask you for your man card. Thank you.
BigFletchDog
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What exactly, sir, do you have against Billy Sample? Or Don Sutton's hair, for that matter?
BigFletchDog
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Great line from that movie, when they drive the car into the swimming pool. Mel looks at Terry and says "I can't see shi..shi..shi..****, can you?
NMBF just got lost
Into The Great Wide Open, NM
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To which Terry replies (in true yokel fashion): No problem, son, no problem...
WOOSH!!! Right into that pool. Classic. Better yet, do you remember that the car was the Hawaiian Tropic car prior to being "painted". Damn, I'm disturbed that I remembered that...
BigFletchDog
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what about joe buck?
goblue10
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I have to agree with that Michael Irvin statement.
stop it
Eureka , MO
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What about Deion Sanders? Did anyone hear him host that pageant (was it Miss USA)? They used to play clips of it on Stern. Boy, Prime Time can be one weird dude...
BigFletchDog
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"ESPN's Wednesday Night Baseball is watched on Mute all over the country."
What about Sunday Night Baseball?
Dyhard
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the same
rstowe
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I'm leaning right
Dyhard
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I am tied in the voting that comment you said about Irvin almost got my vote.
The True Joker
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If you consider cross-dressing & biting hookers weird.....Marv Albert
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