Worst possible game commentating teams

[ISUinOR]

Discussions about Dickie V., Musberger, Fraschilla and other game commentators made me think about the worst possible combinations for calling a football or basketball game you could ever imagine. Granted, they have to be ACTUAL commentators and reporters.

This combination for a football game would make me shoot my TV, then myself:
Play-by-play: Petros Pappadakis
Color: Dan Dierdorf
Sideline/Field: Craig Sager

Basketball:
Play-by-play: Magic Johnson
Color: Bill Walton
Sideline/Floor: Jim Gray

Name your worst.

 

[pourcyne]

Ed Podolak.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Ed Podolak.

With John Sears at his side.

 

[VeloClone]

Ed Podolak.

With Gary Dolphin.

My tongue was bleeding on Thanksgiving because my wife's cousin's husband was complaining about announcing teams and he started raving about how awesome Dolphin and Podunk are. I just about lost my turkey and stuffing.

As you might have guessed, big hawk fan.

 

[clone2011]

Gus Johnson doing football games. He's tolerable during basketball because there's constant action. In football between plays and slow periods his brain wanders and the most random, useless, annoying stuff comes out of his mouth.

 

[Mr Janny]

Gruden and Tirico, and it's not even close.

 

[Judoka]

Gus Johnson doing football games. He's tolerable during basketball because there's constant action. In football between plays and slow periods his brain wanders and the most random, useless, annoying stuff comes out of his mouth.

That's a feature, not a bug.

 

[Jambalaya]

Ernie Johnson> NBA studio host for TNT/TBS....still AWFUL

Licking the Lakers ball-sacks throughout the 1990's, predictng an western conf titl every year for the Lakers after 1991....incessently creaming his pants during the early seasons......

2000 was the next time he was correct

 

[CysRage]

That FS1 crew that did ISU-Tech was awful. If you all remember, they got all jacked up if Tech had any gain > 5 yards and then ISU would score and they sounded disappointed or showed no emotion.

 

[Cloner97]

That guy Petros Pappadakis was terrible. Right off the bat, he's screwing guys names up and mistaking one team for the other

 

[VeloClone]

That guy Petros Pappadakis was terrible. Right off the bat, he's screwing guys names up and mistaking one team for the other

If I am remembering who this is correctly, at least he isn't afraid to give the big uglies some props. They generally get pretty much ignored unless they make a mistake by most commentators.

 

[Farnsworth]

Harry Caray and Ron Santo doing a Cubs game together.

edit (from below): This would have been my DREAM game to listen to. It would probably be the most entertaining radio broadcast ever, however I'm not sure you would be able to follow along with the game at all!

 

[VeloClone]

Harry Caray and Ron Santo doing a Cubs game together.

Oh come on now. I'm a Cubs fan and I could see the comedy in those two. Nothing was better than hearing Santo (RIP) being restrained from diving head first out of the booth when the wheels came off* for the Cubbies.

I can see how people would hate them, though. Kind of like hearing that Hawk idiot with his "He gone!" drivel.

(*which was pretty much all of time)

 

[bos]

Who are the *** hats that do the Drake games?

 

[Farnsworth]

Oh come on now. I'm a Cubs fan and I could see the comedy in those two. Nothing was better than hearing Santo (RIP) being restrained from diving head first out of the booth when the wheels came off* for the Cubbies.

I can see how people would hate them, though. Kind of like hearing that Hawk idiot with his "He gone!" drivel.

(*which was pretty much all of time)

Lol, I was actually going to make an edit to explain myself. That would have been my DREAM game to listen to. It would probably be the most entertaining radio broadcast ever, however I'm not sure you would be able to follow along with the game at all!

 

[Rabbuk]

Gruden, buck, collinsworth. Bob costas as pregame person.

 

[joker]

BJ Schaben

 

[Clonefan94]

Discussions about Dickie V., Musberger, Fraschilla and other game commentators made me think about the worst possible combinations for calling a football or basketball game you could ever imagine. Granted, they have to be ACTUAL commentators and reporters.

This combination for a football game would make me shoot my TV, then myself:
Play-by-play: Petros Pappadakis
Color: Dan Dierdorf
Sideline/Field: Craig Sager

Basketball:
Play-by-play: Magic Johnson
Color: Bill Walton
Sideline/Floor: Jim Gray

Name your worst.

WOW, your football one is spot on for me. I remember right after Dierdorf started, he was calling a game. Throw to the endzone, hits the receiver right in his hands, and the guy drops it. Dierdorf then chimes in with, "Folks, if the receiver would have caught that, that would have been a touchdown." Really Dan, thanks for the Football insight. We weren't quite sure what that empty space past the goal line was. The guy just never shuts up, never. And Petros, ugh, that guys voice just grinds on me. Like fingernails on a chalkboard. I can't believe he started out in radio, he's got the face for it for sure, but his voice, ugh.

 

[statsaholic]

I know that many of you wont know or care, but the Iowa Hawkeye Women's Basketball duo beats anyone mentioned.
Lets see for adjectives... shrill, clueless, distracting, beyond biased, whiny, did I say clueless.. I could go on. One night a couple of years ago I was listening (something on the radio as I was driving) and it was UI vs Penn State. Iowa was up by 13--15 points in the 2nd half, and they went on a 5--6 minute diatribe about some recipe for plum pudding-WITH HARD SAUCE--that Brent's wife had done. Not one mention of the game during the discussion... and when they got back to it, Iowa had a 3 point lead. Just try to listen to that team sometime. It is so poor it is amusing at times. And yes, I am biased, but I kid you not.

 

[iacyguy]

We had a thread like this a year ago or so.


Any thing with Joe Buck ******* sucks.