No way I can watch a whole year of her on MNF. She is the worst. At some point I think we have to start wondering what kind of bad info she has on the heads at ESPN to keep getting jobs. Nobody likes her and she keeps getting the best gigs.
..... My wife walked in the room while I had it on in the background and made some snarky comment on how irritating her voice was.
Everyone needs to realize that she only has MNF in week 1 because of the doubleheader.
Just a one time deal with Beth. The regular crew was the second game with Joe Tessitore, Jason Witten and Booger McFarland.I thought MNF was a doubleheader every week now? I could be wrong.
The veteran N.F.L. reporter Andrea Kremer said she was hardly surprised by the backlash against Mowins’s play-by-play on the sport’s biggest stage. “I have no doubt that ‘hating the sound of her voice’ is code for ‘I hate that there was a woman announcing football,’” Kremer told me.
Much of the social-media discussion of Mowins’s voice was preceded by the always dubious claim that the criticism had nothing to do with the fact that Mowins was a woman. Setting aside that starting a tweet with “I’m not sexist, but” usually ensures that what follows will be sexist, it’s hard to imagine how to separate Mowins the woman from Mowins the voice. Beth Mowins sounds like a woman.
“The negative online reaction to Mowins’s play-by-play calling football games is steeped in sexism,” said Rebecca Martinez, who teaches women’s and gender studies at the University of Missouri. “The comments, mostly from men, have focused on her voice being annoying to the point of not wanting to listen to her. They’ll focus on the naturally higher pitch of women’s voices and ‘shrillness,’ all the while claiming their critiques of higher pitch have nothing to do with sexism. Women who have high visibility, particularly in settings that are traditionally male, will experience backlash.”
I thought MNF was a doubleheader every week now? I could be wrong.
Anyone who complains about Beth is a sexist and the product of the oppressive patriarchy and it's brainwashing. The need for diversity and such. Don't think so? The NY Times ran this article a year ago the first time she called a MNF game: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/sports/nfl-beth-mowins-julie-dicaro.html
I watch a lot of Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN, and I like listening to Jessica Mendoza and what she adds to the broadcast. Conversely, I hate Alex Rodriguez because I can't stand his voice. Add that to the fact that he isn't that good at his job of adding color analysis to the broadcast and you have someone who shouldn't be calling games on a big stage.
I usually find myself muting the TV and finding one of the team audio feeds on the Internet and try to sync up. The best solution to prevent announcers from getting these jobs is don't watch.
Jason Witten is as brutal as Mowins.