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I have more of a problem with the length of the TV timeouts with CBS more so than with Gerne & Vary.

I have a problem with the flip flopping sides when somebody makes a good play. It sounds like our plays are minor and if auburn makes a play they are so much better than us big time. RTR!

But we all know what the score is, don't we, Preacher?  :D

Well I'll say this again even though it sounds self serving.  I worked at ABC-TV in NYC for several years during the heyday of Roone Arledge and ABC Sports.   I knew many of the producers and execs in the Sports dept.  Gotta tell you, they would never have put up with the nonsense we hear from Verne and Gary.  I cannot understand why CBS keeps these guys on their flagship telecast.

Howard Cosell was taken off Monday Night Football.  Warner Wolf was taken of baseball.  Big "names" are not 'immune' and can be replaced.

Hey McBaman did you ever know Keith Jackson? If so how was he? RTR!






 :lol: :lol:, yea we do. RTR!

Everybody cancel your engagements on Nov. 29 so you won't miss the CBS documentary celebrating Verne's 50-year career.   :popcorn2:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24733904/cbs-sports-to-air-documentary-celebrating-verne-lundquist

I hate listening to Verne and Gary.  Here's MY poll:  (choose as many as apply)

1.  They make way too many mistakes
2.  They beat a horse well past death
3.  They bring up past years and results repetitively
4.  They interrupt the flow of the game by continuing to talk about a penalty that wasn't called
5.   Verne no longer has any original thought; he reads off his script/storyline to the point of total boredom, and insists on interjecting it even when not applicable
6.  Gary just talks too much

I like Verne & Gary. Verne is a good old guy with a great sense of humor & he enjoys having fun at work. Danielson is very observant & astute about the game, along with a good sense of humor. He played QB in the NFL 13 years so he knows the game. By the way, did you catch Danielson's comment during the Miss. State game? He was joking about how they have been part of 5 Tide games this year & he said they, the producers, & crew called CBS the Crimson Broadcasting System. I love it.



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Wow, sounds like Eli Gold.



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50 years is enough.  Time for Verne to pack it in.

Yankee.  

I'm from Alabama & he's from New York, you got got your directions turned around.


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I think I would call it a tie between the two! :lol2:

You nailed that 100%!



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At least it won't be that butch broad from ESPN

I tried to watch the MSU game with the sound off, and Crimson Sports network (Eli, radio), but the time delay between the video and radio broadcast was too much.

I truly despise  these two boobs..I'll be glad when the CBS contract is up.

I guess I can handle Verne and Gary as well as I can handle some of these young ones that they have on there now. They are funny at times and I agree they go a little overboard at times but again I can tolerate a little honest ignorance with their presentation better than I can an overzealous commentator that knows it all and is never wrong. One of my favorites was Dizzy Dean in baseball, he sounded dumb as a rock with his commentating but he always had you laughing with his presentation. Somewhat like Verne and Gary.

Do you remember him saying, "he slud into 3rd base" & he loved to say ain't. English teachers would write him and CBS complaining. He would say he wasn't smart, just a great pitcher.

And a great pitcher along with his brother Daffy.  His stories of the Gashouse Gang were priceless.

Did Verne or Gary mention that Bama knocked off no. 1 Miss State last year?  If so I missed it.

Yep. They mentioned that and several times that Mullen was like 0-7 against Bama, and had scored a high of only 20 points in those losses. In other words, MSU & Mullen were owned by Saban. 


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My biggest issues are:
1) They constantly seem lost. We can see something as plain as day on the TV (or computer monitor in my case), and they have no clue what happened.  I've never seen/heard this from other commentators.
2) As someone else mentioned, they get hung up on something and just won't let it go. Whether it's a missed penalty or Gary's theme for the game (in LSU game he said "little things" after almost every play of the game), it just gets tiresome.

I've never really thought they were biased, just clueless at times and mostly plain annoying.  I don't think anyone likes them, I'm not sure why CBS keeps them around.

Like it or not, Gary and Verne are the tops for CBS, and CBS has the contract with the SEC.  They know SEC sports, and work to prepare for the games by visiting coaches and practices leading up to the game.  And they don't confuse NCAA rules with NFL rules or constantly compare the two (like Musberger, et al.).

I laugh at Verne's missteps on names of players, especially when he calls them by a name 2 decades past!  LOL

If complaints are the focus herein, let me add that the sidelines issues pizz me off.  G & V will spot someone on the sidelines, like Peyton or Bo, and spend the next 15 minutes telling stories about them, while the game is ongoing.  Or they'll get off on some issue at another school and chat about that, then look up and say, "Oh, while we were chatting Henry ran for a 66-yard touchdown."

 >:(

Those stories usually come about when we're up 30-10 and they are trying to find something to talk about.  :lol2:

Not always.  Know you're just funning, but the Tennessee game was very competitive, and they spent 15 minutes talking about Peyton.  None of it concerned the game they were announcing.

 >:(

I agree, my complaints aren't of bias but irrelevance and repetition.


It's stuff like this that I can't stand.  The endless prattle overshadows Gary's sometimes decent analysis or Verne's endearing incompetence. 

That is true. They did indeed, screw that up. Fivehead is washed up anyway, and is old news.

I admit, I'd rather watch them than the other options.  The worst to me is that female announcer, who seems to yell when announcing, especially when something exciting occurs. 

Musberger is only entertaining when checking out babes in the stands.  There's nobody else!

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Espn's primetime crews, like Fowler and Herbstreit, show how it's supposed to be done.

I think some folks like Nessler and Blackledge as well. 

Seems like those guys are always doing games at the same time we are playing on CBS, or maybe during another SEC game of interest. Don't get to hear them much, but both sets of guys are good.

CBS probably doesn't care much who the announcers are; Bama fans are going to watch regardless. 

True, these are good.  No fan of Herbie, but he's a talent nonetheless.  These crews spend less time with the teams before the games, but they do a better job announcing.

Every fan base in the SEC think they are pro Alabama except Alabama. I actually like them but as 2Stater said the length of the time outs on CBS are ridiculous. CBS games last nearly 4 hours.They are not the best play-by-play/color team but they are far from the worst.

Beth Mowins is that horrid screamer who yells instead of announcing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOHPoWS-510

So, she's a screamer?  :-X

Does it bother me?

About as much as pissants on a milkshake straw.

Verne and Gary are great! Every time I hear Verne's voice I think of the great Bama games they have covered over the past few years. If you want to here two absolutely awful announcers, watch a replay of the AU-UGA game. Aaron Taylor and some doofus. Absolutely awful.

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I like the long TV timeouts because it gives me a break from Gerne and Vary...  :lol2:

Was that her behind us at the Georgia game? :-\

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I believe the one sitting behind us liked guys.  :lol2:

Really?  So fess up, was she hitting on your or Jamos?  :lol2:

Definitely J!  :-X

Prolly liked his cute ears!   :-*

Nope, my hair.  :)

Then why didn't she hit on me? We go to the same barber.  :lol2:

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Same barber but different hair style.  I guess she just likes the comb-over better...  ;)

There is one thing for sure, she was a screamer because that gal had some lungs.  :lol:

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