Be thankful for Thanksgiving blowouts
Why is everyone so bummed out about the three Thanksgiving NFL blowouts?
If there is one time when blowouts are welcome - unless your favorite team is at the wrong end of one, obviously - it should be Thanksgiving, when family (and eating) obligations make it difficult to focus on every play.
Thanksgiving football works best as background noise, not as down-to-the-wire thrillers.
Be thankful. There was no need to watch the fourth quarter of Jets-Cowboys.
Or the first, second and third, come to think of it.
(The early buzz is that Bryant Gumbel of the NFL Network did not magically turn into Al Michaels during the offseason, but I'll reserve judgment until I hear him myself.)
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Bryant was better than last season, Neil, but not by much. By NFL Sunday standards, Gumbel still was not in the league of the average TV announcers.
And I fell asleep in the 3rd quarter. What does that tell you?
Tells me you ate too much.
Not at all. The game was boring and so were the production values.
Bryant Gumbel was terrible. His voice was grating at best. The camera work was poor as well. What the NFL Network should do is let Rich Eisen and company do the games. They are more entertaining and Eisen has a better voice.
Neil, I thought this story would be of interest to you:
http://crashburnalley.com/?p=47
Old school sportswriter crashing into sports blogs with ugly results. Conlin's Hitler comment might have legs. His baseball commentary is rather foolish to boot.
Craig,
I just read that. That is a totally idiotic thing for Conlin to say.
Thanks for the link, Craig. I'm trying to straddle the fence between old and new media. Sometimes the barbed wire hurts my tush!