![]() The rest of them just blabber or have the same tired, canned responses and phrases. I don't know why it's so hard to find a good color commentator, but the list of good national ones in all of sports is basically Tony Romo, Dennis Eckersley, and Richard Jefferson the few times he's done it. Mark Jones is probably the worst play-by-play guy besides Albert. Burke is terrible, but she's certainly better than Reggie Miller, Chris Webber and Mark Jackson. The national color commentators are absolutely 100 pct garbage without exception. The list of good broadcasters is basically the Knicks and Nets guys. What I suspect most fans actually do not like are her intonation, conviction, and her demonstrativeness (all code for gender). The truth is, While Doris does have some pro-New England-bias, she does a good job covering both teams and spilling out her knowledge and opinions on an equal basis. She spent a lot of time praising the C's at the sixers expense. My sixers fan friends were complaining the whole game that she was very biased against the 76ers. She reminds me of that moron M.Jackson, when he is commentating Warriors games and always rooting against them. Isnt she supposed to be objective? She is acting like a Philly color commentator. If I remember correctly, she was also like that 2 years ago, the last time we faced Philly in the playoffs. She even said "yeah!" when Richardson made the 3 to put them back in the game, with one minute left. "Sixers gotta do this and that", "Embiid should take over", "they cant guard him" etc. Is she a Philly fan or just a Boston hater? Last night she was clearly rooting for the Sixers. Second of all, you could give a newborn baby play-by-play duties for an NFL game and no one would turn the TV off, so even if narrow-minded men don’t want a woman talking about 3-4 blitzes and I-form packages, it’s not going to affect the ratings.Diamantidis wrote:Whats the deal with her? First of all, women have called games in the NBA, MLB and college sports without the institution of American sports collapsing on itself, so I think the world could handle a woman calling NFL play-by-play. The question becomes: Is the audience prepared?”įrankly, whether the audience is “prepared” seems kind of beside the point. I think America is changing, sports fans are changing and the NFL should honestly be the most accepting because women love the NFL. “I’d like to think that if we can potentially have a woman be president, we can certainly have a woman do the NFL. “I would like to be optimistic and I think it will happen soon,” Druley said. We’ve seen women like Pam Ward and Beth Mowins do credible jobs calling football games-so in my mind it’s when, not if.”Īnd here’s Stephanie Druley, an ESPN vice president. Just like any other woman in a high-profile position, she will be under greater scrutiny than her male counterparts. Any person calling games needs to have a command of the sport and a commanding voice and presence. They all grew up with SportsCenter and thus look at the anchor job as the plum. “The overarching issue is not many people-men included-set out to be play-by-play announcers anymore. “I would be surprised if it didn’t happen before the teens are over,” said the executive, who was given anonymity because he’s not the final decision-maker for his company.
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