Oh how I hate watching the NFL on Fox...
by 10aCSteeler on Feb 1, 2011 1:29 PM EST
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I know that this year Fox network will be hosting Superbowl 45, and I can't be more disappointed.
I can't stand watching games on this channel for many reasons.
- That damn dancing robot, seriously
- Tony Siragusa has absolutely nothing to add that is of any importance to game
- Fox makes it seem like the game was played 5 years ago with their subpar special effects and graphics, slow game replays, and that old tune they play right before every commercial break and even after every commercial break. If you don't know which tune I'm talking about, you'll know soon enough.
- That damn dancing robot, wtf
- Troy Aikman & Joe Buck = dull in a box
- NFC games have nothing to do with the Steelers. And the premier Fox games usually feature Brett Favre vs whoever every week. Hopefully he'll stay retired this time
- Did I mention that damn dancing robot?
Maybe I'm being a little harsh. But the only thing Fox got right was having Mike Pereirra immediately accessible for comments controversial official rulings during games.
Nonetheless, I'd much rather watch the Pittsburgh Steelers play on Fox, in the Superbowl, for their 7th Lombardi, than watch any other two teams play on an All-Star television network.
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That damn tune
Which sounds like a muzak ripoff of an old Xmas classic, to boot!
""I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton." Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
by Flying Polamalus on Feb 1, 2011 1:35 PM EST reply actions
CBS
With Gus Johnson
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Jack Butler, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King Jr.
Canal Street Chronicles resident Steelers Fan
+ppphhhuaaauuuuhh
"Franco made that play because he never quit on the play. He kept running, he kept hustling. Good things happen to people who hustle."
+Rise and FIRE
ITS GOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDD
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Jack Butler, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King Jr.
Canal Street Chronicles resident Steelers Fan
GOTTEMMMMMM!!
"Franco made that play because he never quit on the play. He kept running, he kept hustling. Good things happen to people who hustle."
I prefer CBS;
they’ve stayed old-school, with appropriate respect for the game. I also prefer their pre-game crowd.
My heros have always been Steelers...
+7
Throw style points out the window.
Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Is very bad.
"He'll just smile and be cordial out there. Then he'll kill you." --Aaron Smith on Troy Polamulu
Mike Pereirra
is the only good thing they got going, I can’t for a call to come up in the Super Bowl that favors the Steelers and they go to Mike and he goes this is the correct call…. should have had him there 6 years ago.
"Did you really expect Joe to have it as easy as you think it would be against James "I want to stomp of your children’s testicles" Harrison and Lamar "I’ll kick your grandmother" Woodley? I sure as hell didn’t." - Malor
I was reading somewhere
that Mike correctly determined the ruling on 44 out 45 upcoming calls.
"Ring Seven in 2011"
i do hate troy aikman as a commentator
he is about as entertaining as watching paint dry, he kinda ruins the game
CBS
They have the best HD channel Ive seen thus far and do a really good job with their replay-showing. Fox loves showing guys standing on the sidelines after a play, while their dull commentators talk about what happened in the last play- Just show the damn thing!
by Bringin' the Wood(ley) on Feb 1, 2011 3:08 PM EST reply actions
my problem isn't with the stations...
More so with the fact that I’ve had to mute at least 4 games this year. The game starts and instantly its" let’s see how long we can talk negative about the Steelers before they start winning the game and we have to jump on the band-wagon"….
"I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest. If you can’t take it, you shouldn’t play." -- Jack Lambert
Haha, don't watch?
I have not yet begun to procrastinate.
NFL Network has got to be the worst
I love their pregame and aftergame and all day and all night football coverage, but the actual game airings make me wanna pull my hair out.
"Ring Seven in 2011"
I live in Arkansas
and Fox shows Dallas games almost exclusively,
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
- William McFee
by stillergorillar on Feb 1, 2011 3:38 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
stillergorillar
fox 13 Memphis does too allthrough they will show rams games sometimes
okay i have cerebral palsy arthris and chronic fatigue as well i have a great life and loveing folks some days are better than other days i got a make-a-wish in 2001 and saw my favorite team the broncos it was the trip of a lifetime i wish everyone couild have gotten to enjoy that with me i know some of u hate the broncos and that okay but i bleed organ and bule for my mnr fans but i bleed orange and blue denver will rise again resident broncos fan for every blog resident broncos for stampede bule thanks shvd98z24 real name jeremy woodard nettleton high class of 02 yes i am a raider
CBS is the best at what they do.
As long as overly obvious Steeler-hater Phil Simms isn’t there.
My 6-year old daughter even hates the Ravens.
FOX
other that cutting the score was real good to broncos fans blew out pitt in the preseason SEA too and socre 33 on the rams
okay i have cerebral palsy arthris and chronic fatigue as well i have a great life and loveing folks some days are better than other days i got a make-a-wish in 2001 and saw my favorite team the broncos it was the trip of a lifetime i wish everyone couild have gotten to enjoy that with me i know some of u hate the broncos and that okay but i bleed organ and bule for my mnr fans but i bleed orange and blue denver will rise again resident broncos fan for every blog resident broncos for stampede bule thanks shvd98z24 real name jeremy woodard nettleton high class of 02 yes i am a raider
Agreed
5.Troy Aikman & Joe Buck = dull in a box
Biggest example is during the Patriots vs Giants it was the most unethusiastic call when Tyree made his catch. I can only imagine Gus calling that play
"Franco made that play because he never quit on the play. He kept running, he kept hustling. Good things happen to people who hustle."
Listen to his call of Mississippi Mike's TD against Greeb Bay last year. You'd think it was a screen pass.
"So put 2 on, put 10 on, WHAT DO YOU CARE IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE PAYIN' FOR 'EM!!!!?"
-Doug Heffernan, in regards to Arthur and his stamp needs
He ruined that moment for me
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever
-Napoleon Bonaparte
As for CJ, he’s going to get his. That’s what he does. You can’t hold him under 100 yards, so forget that.
-August West
CJ's Stat Line, 9/19/10: 16 carries, 34 yards, 1 fumble
Cornell University Class of 2014
by LV Steelers Fan on Feb 1, 2011 4:57 PM EST up reply actions
God how I miss Dick Enberg,
To me his was the best Football announcer we’ve ever had hands down!!!
by colorado steelhead on Feb 1, 2011 4:31 PM EST reply actions
ooooooooooooh MY!!!!
Stay thirsty my friends.
by SteelerMessican on Feb 1, 2011 10:22 PM EST up reply actions
Ray Scott was great, too -
he never let his outstanding knowledge of the game interfere with, you know, the GAME.
My heros have always been Steelers...
Will Pat Summerall be commentating any?
Or is he retired?
"Franco made that play because he never quit on the play. He kept running, he kept hustling. Good things happen to people who hustle."
networks
Simms wasn’t too awfully bad in AFCCG.Nantz is a good golf host…that’s about the nicest thing I can say on that.Collinsworth says some good things but is a former Bengal…AND is irritating as hell usually.Buck drags Aikman down & FOX over-all is shabby.Hilite of the yr for me was when the baggy-Dome collapsed & I got Sam Rosen(GB@DET)…hope that GB team shows-up this sun.That would be awful actually.No opinion on NFL Network other than to say Deoin Sanders is a bigger loud-mouth now than he ever was.Tirico at the end of the 1st Cin gm was just about begging for those flags…actually sounded disappointed when final pass was broken up.Enberg was good.I miss Trumpy.
We hated Trumpy, because Trumpy hated the Steelers -
excellent analyst/color guy, though.
My heros have always been Steelers...
I think NBC has the best presentation of all the networks
And Michaels is my favorite play by play guy.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever
-Napoleon Bonaparte
As for CJ, he’s going to get his. That’s what he does. You can’t hold him under 100 yards, so forget that.
-August West
CJ's Stat Line, 9/19/10: 16 carries, 34 yards, 1 fumble
Cornell University Class of 2014
Really, really unfortunate he's paired with Collinsworth
The most self-righteous, annoying announcer areound.
Happy Birthday, Don Hutson
couldn't agree more
My 6-year old daughter even hates the Ravens.
by SundaysWithTroy on Feb 3, 2011 5:03 PM EST up reply actions
and Michaels is such a pro
My 6-year old daughter even hates the Ravens.
by SundaysWithTroy on Feb 3, 2011 5:03 PM EST up reply actions
That stupid robot
The robot is undoubtably dumb, but what really kills me is that is never changes. They created 5 animations for it years ago and they keep reusing them again and again. You’d think they could manage one new animation every once in a while. I’d tolerate them if there was at least some novelty to them. And if you can’t make new ones every once in a while, you shouldn’t make any at all. It just looks lazy.
We need Curt Gowdy and Al DeRogatis.
They weren’t pretty boys, but Curt respected the game and Al was a knowledgeable football man.
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
I've seen some old World Series footage of Gowdy
made watching the old black and white tv worth it
"Franco made that play because he never quit on the play. He kept running, he kept hustling. Good things happen to people who hustle."
And they were so well paired -
one covered the others (admittedly minor) flaws.
My heros have always been Steelers...
Fox has best HD picture
turn the radio on for Hillgrove and Tunch and you got yourself somethin’
"He had no teeth, and he was slobbering all over himself. I'm thinking, 'You can have your money back, just get me out of here. Let me go be an accountant." I can't tell you how badly I wanted out of there." Denver rookie QB John Elway, on Jack Lambert, after Lambert and the Steelers knocked Elway out of his first game as a pro (1983).
I just wish the WDVE broadcast wasn’t so far ahead of the Television, so I could listen to Hillgrove, Tunch and Wolfley, they call a great game.
I’ll probably listen to the radio for the Super Bowl anyway.
I'm listening to the radio broadcst with the tv muted. saved my sanity during the regular season several times....
Throw style points out the window.
Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Is very bad.
"He'll just smile and be cordial out there. Then he'll kill you." --Aaron Smith on Troy Polamulu
Fox is awful
After what they paid for the rights to the games, you’d think they’d invest in some technology to improve the experience. A few years ago, they refused to pay some exorbitant fee for the first down line, and instead came up with their own, which they painted on the closest yard marker to the first down — so it was off by as much as two feet in either direction. It was the most infuriating thing to watch imaginable. So you think you have a first down? Naah, it’s because we painted the first down line 2 feet shy so we could save a few bucks. Would have been better just to not have one.
I don’t mind NBC or CBS, and I think the people who think Simms is a steeler-hater are looking for trouble (you know the old saying, if you look for it long enough, you’ll find it).
ESPN’s broadcast “group” is annoying and too chatty, but their presentation of the game is good.
Really, I think TBS could do a better job broadcasting a football game using their basketball announcers.
Simms,
near the end of the Jets regular season game, on the play where Wallace was blatantly held while going deep and yet there was no call, he completely downplayed it, hardly saying a thing, even during the replay that clearly showed the hold. I’m not saying he should have jumped out of his chair like a homer, but c’mon, it was huge no-call and his reaction implicitly muzzled its significance. That was awful.
You have to take his whole broadcasting career as a whole, but I’ve noticed the same thing – at least with Roethlisberger. He usually likes the steelers defense though. On nfl network he says Rodgers better pick to start a franchise around, and Ben as it stands won’t be considered in the top five super bowl quarterbacks because he’s just not a good passer.
Not a good passer? Wining percentage, yards per throw, completion percentage, three rings (hopefully)…. Uhm, maybe he forgot how to look up statistics?
I think TBS could do a better job broadcasting a football game using their basketball announcers.
I bet Barkley would be hilarious as a color commentator
"Ring Seven in 2011"
+Turrible
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Jack Butler, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King Jr.
Canal Street Chronicles resident Steelers Fan
by WVPiratesfan on Feb 2, 2011 12:05 PM EST up reply actions
CBS and FOX are the worst
I can’t stand those 3 Steelers Nation haters at CBS . Starting with that loser Boomer and Shannon Sharpe and Phil Simms calling games . The NFL on CBS needs new faces for the 2011 season . JB and coach Cowher can stay but get rid of the other 3 clowns , Marino , Sharpe and that loser Boomer .
Sharpe is the biggest Baltimore homer on that staff
totally discredited the Steelers win in the playoffs vs Ravens
"Franco made that play because he never quit on the play. He kept running, he kept hustling. Good things happen to people who hustle."
Sharpe gave no credit to the Steelers
probably because of his speech inpediment difficulty is saying words with the letter “S”
"Ring Seven in 2011"
Crap! Seriously? Fox?!!
F—-k that punkazz Joe Buck, I’m listening to Telemundo simucast!
Stay thirsty my friends.
by SteelerMessican on Feb 1, 2011 10:24 PM EST reply actions
I acutally would like to do that too
do they do a webcast?
"Did you really expect Joe to have it as easy as you think it would be against James "I want to stomp of your children’s testicles" Harrison and Lamar "I’ll kick your grandmother" Woodley? I sure as hell didn’t." - Malor
by tannofsteel84 on Feb 2, 2011 9:35 AM EST up reply actions
No habla español....
But would love to find an internet feed (or phone app) that I could tune in that was based out of Pittsburgh.
"I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest. If you can’t take it, you shouldn’t play." -- Jack Lambert
There's one called "TuneIn Radio" for the Android platform
Type “Steelers” in the search box and it brings up a bunch of Pittsburgh stations.
I just got it and haven’t used it for a broadcast yet.
Don’t know if it’s available for IPhone, either.
thanks. got it for the droid2.
"I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest. If you can’t take it, you shouldn’t play." -- Jack Lambert
Joe Buck
Joe Buck is worse than dull, a lot worse. Calling him dull is practically a compliment. But when he and Tim McCarver team up for baseball, this is the absolute worst sportscasting ever. Punishing, just punishing.
I could never sit through
his baseball games
"Did you really expect Joe to have it as easy as you think it would be against James "I want to stomp of your children’s testicles" Harrison and Lamar "I’ll kick your grandmother" Woodley? I sure as hell didn’t." - Malor
by tannofsteel84 on Feb 2, 2011 9:36 AM EST up reply actions
Packers fans hate Fox too
But we’re happy that it’s Buck and Aikman calling this game.
Certainly not because of their skill in the booth, because they are awful. But they’ve called every game of our 5 game stretch – the games against the Giants and Bears to get into the playoffs, then all three playoff games. Sort of a good luck charm to have their excruciatingly dull banter coming from the booth.
And I agree with the others on CBS, both in booth and in the pre-game crowd. The Fox pre-game is just awful. Just a bunch of guys laughing at each other when none of them has said anything funny.
Or intelligible, or profound,
or…
Want conventional wisdom, or the latest in the SI/ESPN/NFL corp spin? Fox is your station.
My heros have always been Steelers...
cheeseheads gonna need all the luck yall can get.
Silverback is bringing it and we have the superbowl powers of Bretts big ol beard. I hate collinsworth the most, but simms is right there. whata coupla db’s. GO STEELERS!!!
I hate fox and it stanks
I think CBS is the best overall…
I find NBC and ESPN to be good broadcasts but announcers BLOW hard… Especially ESPN. But Collinsworth makes me want to choke myself.
I was totally high for the one NFL network game this year and it was the panthers so I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention….
Fox is crap. I watch a few Detroit games here and there and yes the robot makes me asphyxiate myself on my own vomit
Wouldn't it be kool
if the Robot was waving a Terrible Towel instead of dancing
"Ring Seven in 2011"
That robot
is one of the most annoying things on this planet. As if the Pro Bowl wasn’t bad enough, we have to see the damn robot in a grass skirt doing a hula. Admittedly it was the game itself that made me turn the thing off in disgust, but the robot was a close second.
"If you're not getting better, I don't care what business you're in, you're a dead man. I try to look critically at the mistakes that I make and try to learn from them, like our team does." - Mike Tomlin
WDVE
For 40 years my choice for audio for Steelers games has been the Steeler broadcast team on the radio turned up and the TV volume turned down.
Thanks to the internet that’s still possible for me whether I’m in Seattle or anywhere else.
All those network bums give me heartburn.
But I enjoy listening to Bill Hillgrove, Tunch Ilkin and Craig Wolfley. And this year we even had some Stan Savran doing half time updates and post game.
Update your poll! :-)
Whatever it takes!
by SteelerInSeattle on Feb 3, 2011 9:27 PM EST reply actions
The poll is just for which station you enjoy to watch the NFL
not necessarily which one you listen to.
But that is a great idea, I’ve never heard an actual Steelers broadcast team except during replays of the exciting highlights in a Steelers documentary.
Where do you find the broadcast on the Internet?
"Ring Seven in 2011"
The best cheese graters are made of STEEL
Excellent Info
Thanks!
Will try it today!!
"The only way to stop Jim Brown was to give him a movie contract." -- Spider Lockhart
hate
Guys that played against the Stillers in the ‘70s(Trumpy,T.Jackson of ESPN)hate PGH true…but they have a reason to don’t u think?I respect the heck out of them though.
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