Memo to Brent “Oh, Is There A Football Game Happening? I Thought All These People Tuned In To Hear Me Talk!” Musberger:
Please stop calling college football players by their first names.
No, seriously. Stop. Now. And drop the nicknames, too.
Thanks.
Memo to Brent “Oh, Is There A Football Game Happening? I Thought All These People Tuned In To Hear Me Talk!” Musberger:
Please stop calling college football players by their first names.
No, seriously. Stop. Now. And drop the nicknames, too.
Thanks.
You’re seriously still listening to him? I don’t even bother. The sound was off while I watched the game last night, except when I couldn’t tell what was going on, and wanted to hear the ref.
I did see that clip of Keith Jackson from 1960. All I could think was, “People had to suffer through him for 45 years?” I’m so glad I haven’t been around for all of Brent’s career.
js
Hold on folks what we have here is a failure on the part of Burrill to appreciate good sports broadcasting. This young fellow has his cute pithy comments on high school football but he doesn’t have what it takes here in the college game. And as for you Dutton, my man, my pardner Keith Jackson was one of the all time greats. He called a dandy of a game. So forget everything you heard and let’s get back to that footrace of a football season.
Brent
Yeah, js, for some reason I still have the tv volume up, partly because I do like to hear the sounds of the game (despite the announcers), and partly because I’m curious to see if there’s a point at which he’ll explode because he can no longer make this particular play more exciting than any other play in the history of college football.
Or maybe I just like to listen to him for a while so I can complain about him a little more.
Your nephew likes Brent so much he has his own fond nickname for him – Brent Mushroomhead. So there. Nyah nyah. Of course he might have been affected by his parents’ dislike of Brent.
I prefer to believe that his dislike of Brent was affected primarily by Brent’s overwhelming inability to be a good play-by-play announcer.
Oh, and “Brent,” you forgot to use one of your key phrases: “For the ages.” But overall, it was well-written. I particularly enjoyed “Hold on folks” and “pardner.”
I think there should be a federal law that requires ALL play-by-play announcers to spend time training with Al Michaels and John Madden. They can actually go for an entire game without saying somthing stupid.
The only thing worse than Brent are federal laws outside the scope of the US Constitution.