Happy Days Ahead for NFL Network Viewers
by HinesField on Apr 14, 2008 11:16 AM EDT
Email
PrintThe moment we've all been waiting for has arrived; Bryant Gumbel will no longer be announcing games broadcast by the NFL Network. Let us all rejoice.
In this particular case, I have no problem kicking him while he's down. I still remember the first NFL Network game to be broadcast live, Denver at Kansas City over Thanksgiving 2006, when I had to mute my television because Gumbel was just so damn awful. And over the next two years, he never really got any better.
However, I think we all remember the defining moment in his football announcing career coming after Willie Parker broke his leg at the beginning of a Steelers-Rams game last December, at which point Mr. Gumble so brilliantly observed:
Maybe there is some justice in Parker breaking his leg, because now Fred Taylor will get to go to the Pro Bowl.
Yes, Mr. Gumbel; it appears that long-overdue justice has finally arrived. Let's just hope that the NFL Network finds someone decent to work with Chris Collinsworth.
4 comments
|
0 recs |
Do you like this story?
Comments
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And thank you HinesField for posting this. I'm going to go back and search for the discussions we had, but i remember us trying to find the NFLN contacts so we could write and complain. Thank God. He was so bad.
rejoicing
The DAL/GB game this year stands out most in my mind as far as being ill-prepared. He was constantly getting the teams mixed up, calling GB the home team and couldn't even get Romo's name right in post game interviews. Pathetic job by a man who is much better served reading from a teleprompter.
Good call
I actually thought he improved some, though. Either that, or I just got used to it. But, now there's hope. Who could they get to replace him?
by WolfpackSteelersFan on Apr 14, 2008 11:47 AM EDT reply actions
Replacement
by WolfpackSteelersFan on Apr 14, 2008 11:48 AM EDT up reply actions
Comments For This Post Are Closed
Secondary Sidebar
User Tools
"Thoughtful discussion with a sense of history."
Art Rooney Jr.
"Level-headed thinking." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
FanPosts
Community blog posts and discussion.
Recommended FanPosts
Recent FanPosts
SBNation.com Recent Stories
In Association With
Shutdown Corner - NFL - Yahoo! Sports
- Conan sends maniacal, Madonna-loving reporter to Super Bowl XLVI
- Rodney Harrison calls Rob Gronkowski out for dancing after the Super Bowl
- J.T. Thomas is pretty much the best person ever
- Jets congratulate Giants with full-page ad
- Justin Tuck gave out 80 bottles of Johnnie Walker Blue to celebrate Super Bowl
Certain photos copyright © 2012 by Associated Press or Getty Images. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of Associated Press and Getty Images is strictly prohibited.
