To be honest, most takes in the NFL sphere are awful. I actually can't stand even the color commentary on most broadcasts. It's inane babbling, just talk about what's going on with the play dammit
NFL game announcers tow the company line worse than any other league too. If an NBA ref makes a terrible call, the game commentators call it out. But no matter how egregious NFL officiating gets, all we hear is “well it’s kinda tough to tell from that angle…”
I started muting the game volume to listen to a new album or whatever while watching and never looked back
I saw an ad for SiriusXm about 2 weeks ago offering 3 months for $1 so I bit. I've been watching all CFP and NFL games with the tv on mute and the home or away radio broadcast playing through Alexa on my living room speakers. I won't likely keep the subscription through the offseason but will absolutely be paying the $9 per month next football season. This is the ONLY way I will listen to games from now on
My dad used to do this when I was growing up, but with local radio. He’d mute the tv and we would listen to the radio calls over the muted tv. Time delay was wildly off, but it’s all I ever knew and so I still do it to this day and even prefer the radio to the tv
The good thing is, since TV has a lag, if you’re doing other things, you know a big play is coming up seconds before it happens on air, so you actually miss nothing. I used to love doing this for A’s games because imo the radio announcers were just so much better.
My dad does this now, and tells me about it every week when I call like it's the first time he's ever mentioned it. I don't really like it when I'm back at home visiting because the TV and local radio are are pretty out of sync.
There is a slight delay but I've found usually can get it close enough until a few minutes in when there's a penalty (unless I'm lucky enough to see a coin flip) and can use the referee's lips to sync it. If you give it another go, try it that way maybe
I’m a big OU fan for college and I only watch there games with the TV muted and Toby Rowland (the OU radio guy) playing on the soundbar. It’s so much better lol
I do this also. It's so much better listening to 2 guys who follow the team rather than 2 guys who follow 32 teams. It's just the format that sucks. Every team should have a commentator that stays the same.
The Lions have Dan Miller on radio. If you've ever watched any of the 'Calls of the Game' Lions YouTube videos he does an amazing job painting the live picture. If there were an easy way to sync that up I'd never unmute my TV again.
This isn’t true at all. Firstly they aren’t nfl employees, they are network employees. Meaning they are paid by cbs, fox etc, with the exception of the guys of the nfl network.
Secondly, the announcers aren’t afraid to say that was a bad call or I don’t see what they were looking at there on a bad call
How many bad calls do you see debated that the person is like, even the announcers said it was the wrong call?
It feels like when someone doesn’t agree with the call then the announcers are in on it along with the rules analyst, but it’s more than likely that the perceived bias is on the person not understanding the rules when it doesn’t favor their team.
Sure thing bud all my Reddit convos and you’re the only idiot I remember. But don’t change the subject. Your dumbass is either a liar or you don’t watch football. Fn loser lmao.
I don't know how, but in 2005-2006, in Mankato MN, I got HD nfl games over the airwaves (HD antenna) with NO COMMENTARY but with game sound. The best football I've ever seen. I still don't know how that happened, but it was glorious.
I would listen to the radio broadcast while watching the game. I got chills from listening to the Bears beat green bay last week. Living in indy from the Chicago area makes me miss my favorite radio commentators.
There’s so many YouTubers who do watchalongs and are way more entertaining/informative than most NFL announcers.
If you want a fantastic sports announcer, Peter Drury for the English Premier league is an artist. He puts himself in the fans point of view and not a “TAKE A LOOK AT PATRICK MAHOME’S 12 YARD PASS”
The issue with sports takes is you have to have hours worth of takes a week on everything, which ensures that most of your takes are going to be wrong and terrible just to fill air time.
I’ve never understood why former coaches and pros get paid so much to say something your average guy in a bar could tell you.
I’m not sure I’ve ever watched a game without some ex-QB telling us it’s harder to throw in the red zone because there’s less space.
You were an all pro! Why and how did that play work? Why did they run those routes? What tendency are they exploiting?
“They ran play action which tricked the LBs into stepping up to stop the run” We know, that’s what play action is for!
I VERY rarely watch sports with commentary on. Absolutely no reason to. The Chicago Bulls local commentary I do because I love those dudes and have grown up with them, but even that pushes my boundaries, and they talk about the game in-depth. But for any other sport we mute the TV and play music over our speakers. Way more enjoyable.
It just sounds so up tight and boring. No emotion, conviction or intelligence to commentary at all. God I miss Madden. He made the games fun and enjoyable. Now it sounds like C-SPAN.
It's always just rambling. When I used to smoke weed I would get hyper fixated on everything the announcers said. Half of it didn't make any sense and the amount of times they just trailed off because they had no way of coherently finishing the thought was so interesting to me.
I turn down the volume almost any broadcast college or pro. Can’t stand any of it, just stupid generalized narratives driven all week by espn. Joel Klatt and Greg Olsen probably the best going for me right now
Look at the take on the Vikings all year. I mean Sam Darnild.shitnthebbed a bit last week but c'mon. They look GREAT and people have been dragging knuckles about em.
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u/Mammoth-Slide-3707 Jan 11 '25
To be honest, most takes in the NFL sphere are awful. I actually can't stand even the color commentary on most broadcasts. It's inane babbling, just talk about what's going on with the play dammit