On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:05 PM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote: > List members have pretty effectively described how badly Fox has handled > baseball, and Joe adeptly explained their motivations in NASCAR coverage. > But as someone who might clock 15 minutes of football coverage on a Sunday > waiting for The Simpsons, I have no idea how they extend this disregard to > football. It wouldn't surprise me if they do, I just don't know any better.
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe I can sum it up in exactly one sentence and one name: > > "That's a DISGUSTING act by Randy Moss, and it's unfortunate we had it > on our air live!" -- Joe Buck, January, 2005 Ha! That's funny - that is *exactly* the moment that came to my mind when I read Dave's question. But, to be fair, I think Fox ruins football the least of the sports it covers (not that I know anything about car racing). Or perhaps another way of putting that is that the NFL has become so Foxified that the difference between Fox Football and football on the other networks is smaller. NBC does the NFL better than any other network, by a mile (and I am not really a huge Al Michaels fan). But Joey Buck has loosened up a bit from the nadir represented by the quote above, and Troy Aikman has gotten much better. About a third of their analysts are still doing a poor man's impression of John Madden, and they still have their head's way up the asses of the NFL offices. But Football is such a made-for-television sport much of what Fox does just seems less sacriligious to me than what they do to baseball. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
