Say it ain't so, Joe
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I love my DVR for many reasons. But, as a former print person who always marveled at what broadcast people could get away with, I think the ability to hold people more accountable for what they say on the air has to be among my favorite aspects of these wonderful machines. With that, I give you the observations of a reader of ESPN.com's Sports Guy column, who is shooting some of the fish in a barrel known as Joe Theismann's comments:
(Speaking of Theismann, here's an e-mail from Brendan in Indy: "With just around 1:00 left in the 3rd Quarter and the Texans facing a 4th and 4 from the 4 yard line. Down 31-14, the Texans lined up like they were going to go for it. At which point Joe Theismann says 'the Texans are going to go for it, and I love that call' following by the Texans calling a timeout and the game going to a commercial break. When the game returns, the Texans are kicking the field goal and the announcers are arguing about the decision to kick the field goal, with Theismann arguing FOR the field goal. I thought that maybe I had misheard who had said they loved the call to go for it, so with the beauty of TiVo I was able to go back and watch it again, and sure enough it was the great Joe Theismann! He really is creating arguments with himself!")
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That ain't enough to make me spring for TiVo when I have a perfectly good VCR still, but boy, I know the feeling. Just this past Sunday, when an evil Atlanta Falcons field-goal attempt fell short, the announcer said, "He had the range. He had the accuracy. It was just a little short."
"He had the range"???
Posted by: Lex | December 7, 2005 03:49 PM