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Did Fox have broadcast issues for SB XLV?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by JayFarrar, Feb 6, 2011.

  1. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Can't Michaels and Collinsworth be granted the Official Super Bowl announcing team? Even when CBS gets it.
     
  2. apeman33

    apeman33 Well-Known Member

    I tried to get some Twitter friends to get #stfujoebuck going. I admit that I just kind of zone them out and just watch what develops on the screen.

    When I do pay attention, I sit there thinking that I so dislike their voices that I end up not caring what they have to say.

    I don't enjoy Fox's coverage in general.
     
  3. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Frank Gifford was known to use "yard, yard and a half" all the time.
     
  4. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    A thousand times THIS. Uninformed and impossibly smug is no way to go through life.
     
  5. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    I had a problem with the audio stuttering. I had to watch the Super Bowl over the air since DirecTV doesn't carry FOX in the Bismarck, N.D., locals market. If I flipped to another channel and right back, the issue would clear up for about 15 minutes.
     
  6. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Not really Fox's fault, but I did like it when McCarthy called for a challenge in the third quarter and the referee left his mic on. You got the first few sentences of their conversation before he realized it and cut it off. That would've been interesting to hear that.

    That whole broadcast just didn't have the "big game" feel most Super Bowls have. There's usually one major innovation the Super Bowl network breaks out for the game, whether it's a new graphics package, camera angles, whatever. This one had none of that.
    Maybe the next leap forward isn't out there right now, who knows? But that broadcast just felt like your basic late Sunday afternoon game between two good teams, just with a longer pregame and halftime.
     
  7. finishthehat

    finishthehat Active Member

    Maybe it was just my TV, but the HD seemed weird -- something with the yardlines, can't explain it. It was kind of like the effect that comes when someone wears the wrong kind of stripes (I think that's it) on TV, and the camera makes them blend together in a fuzzy way.
     
  8. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    The common thread between the WS and SB is obviously FOX. Joe Buck is only a passenger.

    I've never sensed any ESPN over-the-top jingoism, for all that net's faults. They probably just took FOX's run sheet and ran with it.
     
  9. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Agreed. ESPN is too worried about kissing up to the (your choice of Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Cowboys, Jets, Lakers) to be jingoistic. But Buck? I find him to be ill-prepared most of the time.
     
  10. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    There was at least one instance where a Fox sideline camera operator was run over.
     
  11. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Buck called him a sound operator twice before correcting himself after the second time.

    Tight bunch, those Foxers.
     
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