Pam Ward: She gone

[dixiehack]

Minnesota-Purdue won't ever be the same.

http://mobile.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2012/5/21/3034168/pam-ward-places-you-in-bed-with-strange-angry-people

 

[Boom_70]

I thought this line at end of story was pretty funny:

"The departure of Ms. Ward now leaves just two female announcers on ESPN's college football roster: Beth Mowins and Mike Patrick."

 

[dooley_womack1]

Pam Ward was a far better announcer than that Every Day Should Be Saturday guy who did the linked story will ever be as a writer.

 

[jr/shotglass]

She was cringe-worthy. In more than a decade, I never reached a point of comfort with Pam Ward doing a college football game.

 

[JackReacher]

Pam Ward was a far better announcer than that Every Day Should Be Saturday guy who did the linked story will ever be as a writer.

Incorrect.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I never understood why she is so polarizing. You either love her or hate her. There doesn't seem to be much in between.

I really like her. She gives the down and distance. She tells you what happened. She doesn't get in the way of the game. I always thought she was the perfect play by play announcer.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I guess I am the rare person who finds her non-polarizing. I don't think she's great or terrible. She is just there, like a lot of male announcers. But she gets so much more negative attention than all those guys.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I've always tried to look past any gender issues with the Pam Ward question. If Pam Ward was a guy, she would still be cringe-worthy to me. Honestly.

 

[JosephC.Myers]

I never understood why she is so polarizing. You either love her or hate her. There doesn't seem to be much in between.

I really like her. She gives the down and distance. She tells you what happened. She doesn't get in the way of the game. I always thought she was the perfect play by play announcer.

There's something to be said for an announcer who doesn't get in the way of the game. Don't become a focal point of the action. The game is the focal point of the action.

 

[dixiehack]

If you are announcing a steady diet of Indiana-Iowa, Michigan State-Ball State, etc., feel free to distract me from the game at hand.

 

[black dude with pompano]

Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I always thought Pam Ward was a pro.

 

[playthrough]

ESPN broadcasts a zillion games every weekend. No way she's worse than all the other PBP'ers in that stable.

 

[JosephC.Myers]

ESPN broadcasts a zillion games every weekend. No way she's worse than all the other PBP'ers in that stable.

True. With as many games as they do, goodness knows there's a place for her somewhere.

 

[Azrael]

Highest praise to a play-by-play announcer: I never noticed her. And never really understood all the hate. If you're watching Minnesota - Indiana football, you've got bigger problems than Pam Ward.

 

[JosephC.Myers]

Yeah, she did draw a lot of games that weren't much to write home about. Hard to make chicken salad out of chicken.....feathers.

 

[Small Town Guy]

Highest praise to a play-by-play announcer: I never noticed her. And never really understood all the hate. If you're watching Minnesota - Indiana football, you've got bigger problems than Pam Ward.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Bernie Bierman and the survivors of Gophers Nation will not just sit there and take that.

I thought she was fine, too. In fact, she called perhaps my favorite college game ever: the 2003 Division III title game when St. John's ended Mount Union's 55-game winning streak (I'm sure everyone here remembers where they were...). Her partner was Spielman that day and he was the annoying one. "Can you believe they don't tackle in practice! That's no way to play defense!"

 

[TigerVols]

ESPN broadcasts a zillion games every weekend. No way she's worse than all the other PBP'ers in that stable.

True, and ESPN lets those guys go all the time and they don't make a blip in the blogosphere (remember Doug Bell? Me neither!), so there is that.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Ward was a perfectly competent if unmemorable announcer in the few games I ever watched that she did.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Pam Ward was a far better announcer than that Every Day Should Be Saturday guy who did the linked story will ever be as a writer.

Incorrect.

God that was some riveting prose. And...hehe...get this...Mike Patrick is a...snorfsnorf....girl...hahahaha!

 

[jr/shotglass]

It wasn't that he was great, dools. It was that she is bad.