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Out of all the crews that are currently calling games, Nantz/Romo is clearly the best one, but I don't think you can really compare them to Summerall/Madden back in the day.

I was never a Madden fan.  He did not have a good voice to be a broadcaster.  (And a face for radio.)
Pat Sommerall though; he was great. 

Romo is the first new broadcaster to impress me in a long time.  He's a way better commentator than he was a quarterback.

Romo has made some great calls.

Quote from: MNHighwayMan on January 08, 2018, 03:46:57 AM
Out of all the crews that are currently calling games, Nantz/Romo is clearly the best one, but I don't think you can really compare them to Summerall/Madden back in the day.

Agree 100%.  Also including Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen, and the Michaels/Gifford/Dierdorf version of MNF; I'm a little too young to remember Curt Gowdy. 

Quote from: jp the roadgeek on January 13, 2018, 05:37:25 PM

Quote from: MNHighwayMan on January 08, 2018, 03:46:57 AM
Out of all the crews that are currently calling games, Nantz/Romo is clearly the best one, but I don't think you can really compare them to Summerall/Madden back in the day.

Agree 100%.  Also including Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen, and the Michaels/Gifford/Dierdorf version of MNF; I'm a little too young to remember Curt Gowdy. 

I hate I forgot Enberg/Olsen & Michaels/Gifford/Dierdorf. They both did great jobs calling games.

To be honest, I don't like anyone calling the games. It's just inane chitchat, in my view. If all the commentators  just went away, I think the experience of watching the games on tv would improve immensely. Clearly, though, I am in the minority.

Quote from: CtrlAltDel on January 14, 2018, 08:16:34 PM
To be honest, I don't like anyone calling the games. It's just inane chitchat, in my view. If all the commentators  just went away, I think the experience of watching the games on tv would improve immensely. Clearly, though, I am in the minority.

NBC actually tried that once:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Announcerless_Game

I'm a fan of Gumbel/Dierdorf, also Ian Eagle and Nantz/Romo. Generally CBS has the best broadcast teams.

CBS main team of Nantz and Romo. No to Fox, and I can deal with NBC for the Super Bowl

Don Criqui was a good announcer on NBC.  He was first paired up with John Brodie and then someone else.  His style and voice were like that of Dick Enberg.  Curt Gowdy was another great voice.

And yes.  Joe Buck is one of the most annoying play-by-play announcers ever.  I'd take Howard Cosell or Marv Albert over him any day.

Now, if Phil Simms were to replace Romo for some reason...

What say you?

Well I have always been neutral on Joe Buck.  I will admit that he was showing emotion on the Diggs TD at the end yesterday.

CBS bringing in Romo was a slam dunk IMO.  Phil Simms made me dread watching any games on CBS.

Quote from: Buck87 on January 14, 2018, 08:24:33 PM

Quote from: CtrlAltDel on January 14, 2018, 08:16:34 PM
To be honest, I don't like anyone calling the games. It's just inane chitchat, in my view. If all the commentators  just went away, I think the experience of watching the games on tv would improve immensely. Clearly, though, I am in the minority.

NBC actually tried that once:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Announcerless_Game

That was a very interesting article. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. It appears that the general reason it hasn't caught on is the contextualization that the announcers bring. I hadn't thought about that.

I will take anybody but Chris Collingsworth

Quote from: thenetwork on January 15, 2018, 11:29:08 AM
Don Criqui was a good announcer on NBC.  He was first paired up with John Brodie and then someone else.  His style and voice were like that of Dick Enberg. 

That someone else was Bob Trumpy.

I like Jerry Glanville after all he is they guy who traded away Brett Favre.

Romo, for being an average quarterback at best, and hated by much of the country when he was a quarterback, is surprising a very good announcer.  His stock went way up this year for the way he has been calling and analyzing games.

If anything, I prefer the pre-game show on Fox.  The commentators there have fun.  It's loose.  It's scripted in such a way that it's obvious they informed the graphics teams their game picks and such, but non-scripted in that they can have banter between each other without everyone. looking. at. the. camera. as. if. they. are. talking. to. us.

CBS's pregame show on the other hand is much too rigid.  It's football.  I already have a beer in hand.  Relax!

Quote from: jeffandnicole on January 17, 2018, 02:44:57 PM
Romo, for being an average quarterback at best, and hated by much of the country when he was a quarterback, is surprising a very good announcer.  His stock went way up this year for the way he has been calling and analyzing games.

If anything, I prefer the pre-game show on Fox.  The commentators there have fun.  It's loose.  It's scripted in such a way that it's obvious they informed the graphics teams their game picks and such, but non-scripted in that they can have banter between each other without everyone. looking. at. the. camera. as. if. they. are. talking. to. us.

CBS's pregame show on the other hand is much too rigid.  It's football.  I already have a beer in hand.  Relax!

I also agree that Romo was a pleasant surprise this year. 

As for pre-game, I'll usually flip back and forth, depending on the segments and if it's a person/team I care that much about.  I'll usually watch more of CBS, just because they seem to be a little more AFC oriented, and FOX seems a little more NFC oriented (which makes sense given the networks mostly cover those conferences), and my team (Steelers) are in the AFC.

Quote from: jeffandnicole on January 17, 2018, 02:44:57 PM
and hated by much of the country when he was a quarterback

Not reddit. Reddit loved and still loves him.

Can't say that I've ever seriously watched a pre-game or post-game show. I'm usually doing something else in that time.

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 17, 2018, 06:34:52 PM

Quote from: jeffandnicole on January 17, 2018, 02:44:57 PM
and hated by much of the country when he was a quarterback

Not reddit. Reddit loved and still loves him.

:rofl: You haven't been on reddit very long then.

Jay Cutler was supposed to do play-by-play on FOX before he decided to "bail" Miami out of their QB shortage. Does he seem like he would do a good job? I'm skeptical.

Quote from: cjk374 on January 18, 2018, 05:24:54 PM
Jay Cutler was supposed to do play-by-play on FOX before he decided to "bail" Miami out of their QB shortage. Does he seem like he would do a good job? I'm skeptical.

Jay, what do you think of the play?
Jay Cutler: Don't care.

When I was following da Bears during their glory years of the 80s, the CBS duo of Summerall and Madden were the team to watch (they later moved to FOX when it took the NFC package away from CBS). Today, the closest thing to that is Nantz and Romo, the main voices of CBS' AFC package. I try to avoid FOX as much as I can for two reasons: Joe Buck's atrocious announcing, and the fact that they keep playing the NFL theme on their baseball telecasts (what was wrong to the old theme? It was miles better than the current out-of-place song, though I like the marching-band variants for their college telecasts).

Quote from: Henry on January 23, 2018, 10:33:41 AM
and the fact that they keep playing the NFL theme on their baseball telecasts (what was wrong to the old theme? It was miles better than the current out-of-place song, though I like the marching-band variants for their college telecasts).

My thoughts exactly.  At least they still use the 'right' one on Fox Sports WI

Quote from: triplemultiplex on January 24, 2018, 02:29:03 PM

Quote from: Henry on January 23, 2018, 10:33:41 AM
and the fact that they keep playing the NFL theme on their baseball telecasts (what was wrong to the old theme? It was miles better than the current out-of-place song, though I like the marching-band variants for their college telecasts).

My thoughts exactly.  At least they still use the 'right' one on Fox Sports WI

They still use the 'right' one on Fox Sports Ohio and Sports Time Ohio as well, so I would imagine that all the Fox regional networks use the baseball one and that the football one is only used for national baseball games on the Fox network channel.

Though of course, all of the Fox regional networks have recently been acquired by ESPN, so the familiar Fox baseball theme will likely be gone for good this year.

Quote from: dvferyance on January 17, 2018, 02:27:58 PM
I like Jerry Glanville after all he is they guy who traded away Brett Favre.

NFL means Not For Long if you keep making calls like that, lol. Good ole Jerry Glanville.

I voted too quickly without actually reading the choices. I first thought we were talking about current crews. I would have voted Summerall/Madden if I had been paying attention.

I can still hear Summerall saying late in the 4th quarter "For those of you on the east coast 60 Minutes will be shown in its entirety followed by 'Murder, She Wrote'." I really don't remember the TV show that well, but I sure remember Summerall saying the name every week.

I was at the Eagles/Vikings game so I didn't have to listen to any announcers.

The NFL Network did have a 1 hour summary of the game the other night, simply taking clips of the broadcast.  I thought Buck/Aikman actually did a pretty good job with that game (well, I mostly heard Buck).  Usually, they are very anti-Eagles.

I wish TV announcers didn't have to CONSTANTLY talk.  You'd think they were on the radio.  If I can see it, you don't have to say it.  People go to live events and do just fine without commentary.

Why was Romo so good in the regular season, yet in the past two games was a mess. Has nothing to do with the Patriots, because he called three regular season games with them and was fantastic. I guess he's going to suck in the postseason as a broadcaster, too.

Quote from: SectorZ on January 26, 2018, 02:49:37 PM
Why was Romo so good in the regular season, yet in the past two games was a mess.

Mimicking his quarterback career maybe?  :-D  :bigass: