My Wife Can't Stand Him

Like nails on a chalkboard, my pretty little wife hates Sunday Night football analyst Chris Collinsworth or Collingsworth as she calls him. Her distaste for him is so deep she can't even learn his name. Why does she hate him so you ask. She hates his ramblings of pointing out the obvious and repeatedly going over bad plays or poor performances. She really hates it when his ramblings and criticism is of her favorite team, the New York Giants. Don't ask, I don't know why she is a Giants fan growing up in the Chicagoland area all her life.

While I agree with her that Collinsworth does seem to go on and on about things while the game continues to happen and at times misses other things while his continuing of criticism overlooks the next play. What bugs me more is not the fact he criticizes players who make football actually look difficult, but that he like most will call a player great right after criticising him for being a football moron. This happens all too much in football commentary during broadcasts in almost every instance. There are no longer teams of analysts and play-by-play guys who bring you the game and teach you more about the game than you knew when you came into it. The sensationalism of commentary and play-by-play has almost become too much to handle where I would rather watch with the sound off on my TV.

It all began with the likes of John Madden, but at least when I grew into a huge football fan as a youngster was still in a time where Madden actually taught you about the game still. Then he morphed into the Dick Vitale of the NFL and that has bled down to almost every booth pairing doing professional football to date. We can't even get into the current three man team doing Monday Night Football where just the opposite of over criticism goes and every team and every player is the best they have seen. I realize that fantasy football has had a huge hand in this with bringing more new fans than ever. Most of whom don't "know" the game very well so it needs to be brought to the masses at a the lowest common denominator level, but we need crews on these national broadcasts that can bring a happy medium of entertainment and true football knowledge. Leave the excitement and overdone, over exuberant broadcasts to the home team calls that are brought to the masses on the radio. Bring someone that can teach my wife the game so I don't have to answer a question after every snap, during every play, during every replay and so on and so forth.