Brent Musburger is the absolute worst sports

[MikeyC]

He's not a great announcer I'll grant you that, but I would have to say the WORST announcer in all of sports is Greg Gumbel. Absolutely HORRIBLE. He is closely followed by Joe Buck.

[Mikey202]

as a Penn State fan, having to hear this guy, is making this game 10x worse. I still love Joe Pa. I think it was great that he wouldn't do an interview, even with the $10,000 fine.

[Yazzie]

Originally Posted by Mikey202

as a Penn State fan, having to hear this guy, is making this game 10x worse. I still love Joe Pa. I think it was great that he wouldn't do an interview, even with the $10,000 fine.

Yup, it shows the Class Joe Pa has and that he is old school and wouldn't let the media make him larger than his team or the game

Originally Posted by MikeyC

He's not a great announcer I'll grant you that, but I would have to say the WORST announcer in all of sports is Greg Gumbel. Absolutely HORRIBLE. He is closely followed by Joe Buck.

Bingo,,,,Joe Buck was quoted as saying he wasn't really thrilled about doing baseball play by play anymore. Gimmee a break,,for a guy who basically never played and comes in on the heels of somebody who gave him a chance ( his daddy ) to do a game when he was barely in his twenties,,,,and makes millions of dollars on something he doesn't really like doing? He can bend over and take a hike. Brent Cheeseburger,,,this guy needs to hang it up and let somebody else make the calls.

[atlharp]

Originally Posted by MikeyC

He's not a great announcer I'll grant you that, but I would have to say the WORST announcer in all of sports is Greg Gumbel. Absolutely HORRIBLE. He is closely followed by Joe Buck.

On a more positive note I thought when Bryant Gumbel was calling games for NFL network in the past he did a great job. The best play caller is still Al Micheals- why can't they all be like Al?

ATL

[Swampper]

Amen!

I watched the Rose Bowl with my 86 year old father today, and we both agreed to keep the volume turned off. BM can ruin any event, and too often he is the announcer for a major OU game.

BTW, it's not just our country. There is a guy named Steve Rider that is on ITV in the UK. He is just as obnoxious and BM.

Great thread! I feel better now. Had a horrible day.

[TideRoll]

Originally Posted by MikeyC

He's not a great announcer I'll grant you that, but I would have to say the WORST announcer in all of sports is Greg Gumbel. Absolutely HORRIBLE. He is closely followed by Joe Buck.

Not just a huge fan of either Greg or Bryant Gumble for that matter. They're tolerable only so long as they don't have the opportunity to express their personal opinions in more than one sentence fragments.

Joe Buck isn't a third as good as he thinks he is, and he really doesn't add much at all to a broadcast. A "Joe" I don't care for is Joe Morgan, but at least he has some idea of what he is talking about. He just doesn't think anybody else knows anything. Madden should have taken the Frank Calliendo thing with more grace. Bill Walton... I see what you're saying, but since I was a Celts fan when I was a kid I probably have a higher threshold for him, too. Lunquist seems to know only what he was told within the hour before the broadcast. Gary Danielson is obviously knowledgeable, but has the tact of a rhino and I find myself oscillating with respect to him.

I liked Jackson, Gifford, Dandy Don was fun. I like Al Michaels, I liked Pat Summerall a lot. Jim McCay did his job well without trying to become part of the story. Speaking of which, Cossell was irritating of course, but I was still a kid during his prime so I didn't really get too hacked off by him. Vin Scully always did a very nice job. Bob Costas doesn't impress me as much as he does others, but I don't dislike him. I used to love to hear Harry Carey call a game. I happen to like Dick Enberg calling tennis.