INT. FOX BROADCASTING BOOTH - NRG STADIUM, HOUSTON, TX - NIGHT JOE BUCK: Good evening, folks! Welcome to Thursday Night Football, here in downtown Houston, as we wait to watch the 2-6 Texans take on the 1-7 Miami Dolphins, in what is sure to be a thrilling kickoff to Week 8!
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This Apparently, stupidity and sexual harassment is not restricted to active NFL players. In the latest scandal to rock the NFL, several on-air personalities and former players employed by the NFL's own Network are being accused of some very bad things. I'm SO happy that the current climate allows for assholes like
“SOME TABLE IS BETTER THAN NONE TABLE?”
Smoking Hot Microphone
INTERIOR - FOX SPORTS BROADCASTING STUDIOS - LOS ANGELES, CA [A pair of well dressed men sit around a broadcast studio's control room, watching sports highlights on various screens] GEORGE GREENBERG: Look, Joe, we have to keep up with the times. CBS has finally done the smart thing for once by canning Simms
Your “They Keep Pulling Me Back In!” Thursday Evening Open Thread
Dammit! I keep trying to avoid the NFL, but stupidity keeps bringing it to the fore: "Aaron Hernandez's Attorneys Might Argue That Weed Made Him Violent" - Deadspin At first, this sounded like something out of the Jeff Sessions "War on Drugs" playbook. Or a discarded Crimebeat! post. Actually reading
Your “Y’know, In The Rest of the World It’s Just ‘Thursday'” Thanksgiving Night Game Open Thread
I’ll miss Andrew Siciliano most of all
I did it. I finally did it. I called Directv up and told them not to renew my NFL Sunday Ticket subscription. This was the last holdout. The last bit of money that I was contributing to the NFL's coffers is now no more. And you know why I held out
Manning v Brady
Al Michaels: MANNING BRADY MANNING BRADY MANNING MANNING BRADY BRADY BRADY BRADY MANNING MANNING YUUUUUUUUUUGE BRADY MANNING MANNING BRADY. Cris Collinsworth: This is crazy, we've been watching football games for a long time and we've NEVER seen BRADY MANNING MANNING MANNING BRADY BRADY MANNING BRADY MANNING BRADY BRADY BRADY MANNING before. Jon
A Sneak Peek at Giants-Vikings, Fall 2016
Joe Buck: Welcome everyone to beautiful new US Bank Stadium here in Minneapolis, where this afternoon the Vikings will open their season against the New York Giants. Troy, this stadium is really something, isn't it? Troy Aikman: You're absolutely right, Joe. This clear roof makes it feel like we're outdoors, but I
And now, down to the field…
I felt inspired by yesterday's post by Monty about the absolutely horrific announcing teams we are subjected to each week and so I decided to do a visual essay of the eye-candy the networks stick on the sidelines to get meaningless halftime reports, meaningless injury updates, and meaningless suppositions about what
