TV Sports commentators are dumber then political ones

[JonLP24]

It drives me crazy listening to these guys speak. I was frustrated earlier when hearing these guys (PTI and Around the Horn) talk about how Texas got screwed and they say head-to-head should be the correct way to break tie breakers and not the BCS. Newsflash Texas lost to Texas Tech so all 3 are effectively tied in head-to-head. Or something that is very laughable is watching these guys jump off and on teams bandwagons during the season with very poor analysis. Like when McNabb was struggling they were saying he is done in Philadelphia (With a 5-5-1 record, clearly alot of football still to be played) after being benched in Baltimore, then has an outstanding peformance against Arizona and pretty much that talk tied down. Plus very few mentioned Philly at the time was one of the league leaders in dropped passes so that is going to affect McNabb's stats. Or after New York beat Tennessee all of them declared New York the best team in the AFC(They probaly are) but then jumped off their bandwagon after their home loss against the struggling Broncos(They are leading their division but they are struggling for the most part). My point about the NFL is they rely too much on the latest game to define the team's outcome. Probaly the team they played gameplanned poorly that would beat them later on or avoidable mistakes were made. After I watched Arizona beat San Francisco by a yard it was ego stroking for the Cardinals all night even though the Cardinals made stupid penalties all night that nearly cost them the game, the 49ers threw like 6 interceptions but I think only 2 or 3 counted, maybe 4.

The bottom line is any team that qualifies for the playoffs, the top ones can go down due to mistakes, the other team being better prepared, etc. But it drives me crazy how the success of the last game is overblown by the media types. Let me give an example of how things can change, 1st game of the season Denver beats Oakland @ Oakland 41-10 then turn around several weeks later and lose @ Denver vs Oakland 10-31(The week before they beat the "best team in the AFC") Things are not that certain in today's NFL. Houston can run the table and win the super bowl, very unlikely but possible.

[trumad]

1. I watch my games with my local radio guys turned on for commentary...

Otherwise I watch the game with the sound turned down. I hate the way a commentator has to say something after each play and that something is usually gibberish.

[a la izquierda]

2. So, so funny that you posted this.

My cousin is the host of Around the Horn. I watched his show yesterday to see how they discussed the BCS nightmare (I'm an OU fan, and yes, it is a nightmare even though OU ended up getting the luck of the draw). I turned it off before the last two guys finished talking. The only one who even had a shred of argumentative sense was Woody Paige, not because he said that OU should be going, but because he took all of the factors into account (well, when he wasn't being talked over). They completely ignored the fact that Texas Tech WAS STILL PART OF THE EQUATION, because it had the exact same record and was therefore still "in the game" according to the very flawed Big 12 rules.
My cousin doesn't have a dog in the race, but I emailed him a gentle ribbing after I watched the show...typically he emails me when OU does something good, but he's been staying off my radar for awhile. I wonder if he gets to vote...eek!

[Poiuyt]

3. Did anyone hear Brent Musberger repeatedly call T. Boone Pickens as Boone T. Pickens?

[madinmaryland]

4. I wish Musberger would just retire. He's the one guy I cannot listen to.