How would you improve sports broadcasts?

I'd like to see Mark May kick Lou Holtz's ass at halftime.

 

Every time Rod does CFL games I want to turn it off.

I wish he would stick to figure skating. He and Greg Millen are the blandest guys in Canadian sports broadcasting

 

Announcers are worse now for the same reason major league pitchers are worse - there are a lot more of them. Just in college football alone, we've gone from the famed one-game-a-week to last Saturday, where there was only one game with a Division I-A school that couldn't be watched on some type of screen (sorry lovers of Wyoming-Cal Poly).

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The best announcers of today would have been tops in any era. The worst of today would have been selling life insurance in Elmira and never have offended our virgin ears. I'm willing to make the trade off to enjoy the universe of choices I get now.

 

I would drop two things completely that add nothing, the interview with a coach or player that is either coming off the field/ice/court into the intermission or heading back out on to it. They never tell you anything and 99% of the time the questions are terrible.

The mid-game interview with players and coaches coming out of a TV timeout while they are on the bench, just brutal and more often than not the coach/player looks like he wants to rip the interviewer's head off. Again they add nothing and the questions are usually terrible.

 

Then there would be at least one team with an announcerless broadcast: The White Sox.

 

Eliminate announcers who say "Are You Kidding Me???" and use a plural ("the Barry Sanderses and Walter Paytons") where it's completely asinine.

 

Mute button works every time.

 

Without reading the entire thread, realize that while your target audience might be male, that is not your entire audience.

There really are a lot of women that like sports. Hard to sit through the male bullshit sometimes.

Which mean, yes, I use the mute button. It's a shame though, as I actually want to hear talk about the game.

 

Not the way my kid steals batteries.

 

Blow up "The Subway Fresh Broadcast Booth." Geez, they even mention it in the :30 promos. Good lord.

 

Japan had this when I was there in 1985. It only took until, when, the mid 90's for this To take hold here? Great idea for baseball.

 

I agree with those who would like to see an end-zone view, especially for replays in football. Many, many viewers have been playing Madden for years and it's the default view on there because it works. It's great for seeing formations and pre-snap movements.