1. Paul MaGuire, the announcer on NBC during the 90s. He called the Oilers game, and he was a former Bills player. He hated us. Badly. I seriously muted the TV and grabbed the radio play-by-play.
2. Herm Edwards. All talk, no action. He uses emotion to keep his job(s), and it's getting old to me. At some point, you either have it or you don't.
3. Raiders fans. It was cool in the 70s...but they need to tone down their act. Visiting fans are afraid of being beaten up by Raider fan, which is NOT cool.
4. Sean Salisbury. I hope his arrogance is an on-screen persona.
5. The remaining 1972 Dolphins players, and their champagne celebration when the last undefeated team loses each season. For as much as I dislike the Patriots, I must admit that I appreciated the Patriots being so strong all season that we didn't have to see Shula & Co. smirking on the sideline and high-fiving each other. I know they're proud of what they did--That's all good and well. But at some point, to me, you gotta' stop the show and just rest in knowing that what you did doesn't need a yearly celebration. Let it stand on its own. It was special: WE GET IT.
6. The yearly camera shot of Jets fans in agony, screaming their heads off in anger as their first round draft choice is announced. Another annual rite of passage. You know it's football seaosn when Jets fans are berating their team, on camera, on draft day.
7. Rex Grossman & The Bears' front office. Note to both of these people: You can help lower the depression rates in Chicago if you would just go separate ways. It was odd two years ago, it became increasingly weird last season, and now it's bordering on mass hysteria. It's not gonna' work out. Texans fans know what happens to a defense when they see an inept QB leading the offense: They stop hustling and they don't care anymore because it's an exercise in futility for the defense to "stop" other teams' drives...knowing they're gonna' be right back out there, behind the 8-ball (again) in just about 5 minutes.
8. RBBC & FFLs. Nuff said.
9. Cowboys games without Crazy Ray (who died last year). I don't like the Cowboys, but I can say that I was forced to go to a Cowboys Redskins game about 4 years ago...sat in the end zone, and what I saw was the best thing I saw that whole day: The Hogettes (Skins fans dressed up as old ladies) had flown to the game, wandered down to our area of seats, and Crazy Ray saw them and approached them--They had a cordial back-and-forth smack talking conversation, and then they began posing for photos with the crowd. It was like being a kid again, seeing them in person when I had seen them on TV growing up (my dad was a Cowboys fan, so that's what we watched until I got my own TV and started watching Oilers game in my own room!). Seeing that stuff in-person was a treat.
10. Going back to No. 3 on my list: I don't like the way the NFL works, as it pertains to coaching jobs. If you have a buddy, you're always getting jobs in the NFL. No matter what happens, you're always on the gravy train. It's like they are all just looking out for each other, helping each other out when they take turns being the head coach. Proof: Dom Capers is on the Patriots and is being rumored to be the head coach if the NFL sits Bill Belichick down this season. Yikes.
I would probably put Shannon Sharpe, Joe Theismann, Deion Sanders, Stuart Scott, Jason Whitlock on the list, but they are minor problems to me. John Madden needs to retire. The overall status of the gameday announcing/commentary is not as strong as it was in the 80s and 90s.
... I appreciate all the posters here...even the misguided ones...you know who your are..
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