Jon Gruden Primer

Jon Gruden is easily my least favorite commentator in sports and the chumps he’s with on Mondays make my brain hurt.

I would pay a pretty decent amount of money if it were possible to watch footballs with NO commentary. None. Zero. (On TV anyway. Oddly, the best thing about watching games live was NOT having to hear any of that crap.)

Every time I hear someone say, “You’ve got to make that play…” I want to go ballistic.

I want the man to go back to coaching as soon as humanly possible so I can watch MNF without having to mute constantly to maintain my own sanity.

Not even close. Joe Buck + Troy Aikman team is the worst. Jesus you should have hear them call the Packers-Vikings game yesterday, they were so clueless at so many points, I found myself almost screaming at the TV “aren’t you even watching your own camera feeds!?!” Like when the Packers challenged the late interception of Rodgers. They went on like two minutes about how the interception was clear & the Packers would lose the challenge, until only seconds before the ref made the announcement, it dawned on them, “gee maybe what the Packers were really challenging was not the interception, but the call that the cornerback wasn’t down by contact when he went to the ground, and that he shouldn’t get those twenty yards of runback after the interception?” you know, something that was obvious to every non-comatose viewer in america by the fifth slow-mo replay, if not the first

Maybe it was because it was at the tail end of an afternoon full of inane commentary that I just could not take it. Don’t these guys have earphones for people to tell them they are making themselves look like blind people on national TV?

Though the MNF announcers can get tiresome, they are that way in a “favorite uncle” kinda way. You know them so well that you almost know what they are gonna say 2/3 the time. But the other 1/3 … sometimes they actually say something really interesting. Unlike Buck & Aikman.