Well, I watched pretty much the whole game Sunday. Don't know about you, but Super Bowl Sunday is quickly catching up on Christmas for being the uber example of annoying crass commercialization. Granted the commercials are funny, but I am really getting irritated at the recent phenomenon over the last couple decades about making the spectacle surrounding the game bigger than the game itself, and was particularly upset about the way FOX broadcast it this year.
Some obvervations:
On live action plays, stick with the conventional sideline camera view please. - FOX is hands down the worst offender in this regard. On the opening Eagles drive where Donovan McNabb had apparently fumbled, they showed the play from some bizarre corner angle which made it difficult to see if his knee was down prior to losing the ball. Then the commentators had to say "Well, it's a good thing the Eagles bench saw that". Maybe we all could have seen it immediately had they shown the play from the sideline. There were also several other plays where showing the play from a bizarre angle made it difficult to determine how much yardage was gained or lost.
This isn't a video game, so cut it out with the fancy graphics already. - Again FOX is the worst network to watch sports on for this very reason. I didn't mind when televised football introduced the yellow first down stripe on the screen, but now they feel they need to show us a blue stripe where the line of scrimmage is (uh isn't that where the ball is located), a red stripe to show us where the offense will be in field goal range, the red zone has to be made red, a down and distance arrow has to be flashed across the screen, and we have to have marquees running across the top everytime a team scores, a timeout is called, or a challenge is issued. Geez louise, I understand the game, now let we WATCH it please.
Its a football game, not the f**king Grammy awards for crying out loud - It used to be that an annoyingly stupid halftime show was enough, now pregame ceremonies simply aren't complete without a two hour pop concert from every "14 time Grammy nominated artist" that has even taken a shit in the last twenty years. Introduce the teams, do the National Anthem and the military flyover, flip the coin, and get the damned show on the road.
You gratuitious jabbering isn't enhancing my enjoyment of the game, Mr. commentator. - Do we really need not one, but three overly wrought forensic analyses of a damned incompleted pass? I don't think so! I guess there's a reason some people like to put the TV on mute and listen to the game on the radio.
I really don't give a shit about your network's non-sports related programming - You wanna tell me about the upcoming Daytona 500 broadcast then fine, but I don't think that I need to hear the guys in the booth, who should be concentrating on FOOTBALL, plug the season premiere of '24' or "The Simple Life". Save that crap for your $3.4 million commercials please.
And could we minimize the role of Hollywood people too please. Having Will Smith and that other douchebag introduce the teams was just downright asinine. Nobody could introduce teams quite like Pat Summerall did.
Cut it out with the pointless novelty inventions - I know its the Super Bowl, but for crying out loud, a pylon camera? Then of course, when they probably concluded that the cam it wasn't going to get any better action, they just had to use it to show a replay of Corey Dillon's touchdown from sixty feet away, (and ten inches off the ground). Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Text message to win a million dollars? Unless I'm one of the entrants who gives a shit!! - God whatever happened to those cool million dollar promotions where you had to kick a 40 yd. field goal, or throw the football through a tire sized hole from a challenging distance. Lame idea, and boring as hell to watch to boot.



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