Help!! Must shut the sound off!
I truly must stop watching sports or at least turn the sound off.
CBS television’s Phil Simms, referring to the Seattle Seahawks as defending Super Bowl champions (they are not!) does not bother me as much as his non stop talking, cliche filled analysis.
He was trying to point out how tough it is for defending Super Bowl champions, perhaps remembering his exploits after his more or less fluke great game vs the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl when his N.Y. (really Hackensack) Giants won the Supe, but struggled the next season.
In fairness, it was a strike season and Simms was a very good, not great quarterback, but the hype for him as a player and his horrible analysis (once down 14 points in the 4th quarter he agreed with Bill Cowher’s horrible decision for the Steelers to kick a field goal inside the Patriots’ 10 yard line in the 2004 AFC title game. Of course the Steelers lost the game) really gets to me in a bad way.
One more blight, a truly “bad penny,” who has resurfaced on college football games named Mike Patrick.
His mistakes made New York Post media columnist Phil Mushnick’s job easier, as they filled up his notebook during Sunday night football telecasts decades back.
Worse than Verne Lundquist saying we all know where we were when Bobby Thomson hit his pennant winning home run in 1952 (of course it was 1951 and what still galls me is that Lundquist was so certain and arrogant in passing on the wrong information back in 1990) was Patrick advising the opposing team to intentionally walk JD Drew with a 5 run lead and the bases loaded, in the ninth inning of a College World Series game.
Yesterday with two touchdown favorite, Michigan State up by 5 points and in a third and goal situation at about the Indiana 8 yard line, Patrick said “the game is on the line” on this play. As a dear friend would say “Really?!!!”
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Andy B Sports 