Who is your least favorite sports announcer?

Every single week, he is doing a cowboy game despite being a national anouncer. It is redicules

is an idiot. Everything he talks about some how comes back around to what he did in the NBA. And those aren’t even his real ears! He had bionic ones put on just to hear his own voice better.

He’s wrong about everything, which is really crazy considering how much basketball he’s played.

He said he thinks Tyrus Thomas could literally average ten blocks a game. When the other announcers questioned if that was even humanly possible Miller was unrelenting, insisting it was indeed possible.

That would equal about 820 blocks a season. Right now the record for most blocks in a single season is held by Mark Eaton at 456. Tyrus just needs to double that and he’ll be gold.

No question about it. Followed shortly by Barkley and Miller.

would make the list if this question was asked on any other teams blog. We like him here, but really, if he was the announcer for another team I would HATE him. But he’s ours so i love him. lol

And everyone that works for espn/abc, except maybe mike tirico

And the correct answer is Kenny “The Jet” Smith. God told me in my sleep after the dunk contest.

I’m not sure he qualifies as a sports announcer, but every time this clown graces my halftime show, I want to stab him with a fork over and over. “Tell me what I won, Michael…”

An idiot award.

Seriously, I don’t know where he came from, but I wish he’d go back to doing his over-expressed kindergarten teacher routine somewhere else. Ricey/Wheeler/Harvey are all irritating in their own right, but Luftman and Holton are as bad as it gets.

I am embarrassed for these guys. If people from the rest of the country were to see these two corkscrews, they wouldn’t be as nice as I am.

The Blazers are doing so many things with excellence right now. The team, the coach, the community involvement, the GM, the list goes on. But…why, when the broadcast crew is what people see, are they letting these two chuckleheads represent the franchise to the public. It’s so annoying.

More Mike Rice. More Rebecca Harlow. More good decision making from Blazers brass.

Discuss…

You don’t know him, but I had to bear him when I lived in Germany in about his final two years before retirement. Despite massive experience reporting from multiple Olympic games and world championships (soccer, track and field, others), he had acquired no competency in the covered sports whatsoever. But was known to happily summarize what had happened (or not) way too early. His voice was pretty weird. And his comments were often bland, repetitive, chauvinistic and whiny. I remember an Olympics cycling race in Sidney where he kept complaining endlessly that it was too warm and his monitor was facing the sun and thus he couldn’t distinguish the riders. I don’t care, do something about it and don’t mention it. He also came up with quotes like:

• “Well, he was scheduled for substitution anyway” when a player got severely injured
• “That was a pretty weak turnover” and “good pass, unfortunately much too long”
• “Don’t turn off the game yet. It can come worse”
• “The score is 1 – 1, but it could have been the other way around”
• Going Shakespeare: “Toulouse or not to lose, this is the question”
• “Germany wins through a goal by…uhm…well…” and couldn’t come up with the name
• “Rivaldo is awesome. Rivaldo has such great technique. Oh, that’s not Rivaldo”

During the world championships 2002 I (and apparently many others) complained about him to the broadcasting TV station, and got an e-mail back that included statements like “We can’t replace him since he is [management position] and thus has a right to choose his own broadcasts that he extensively uses. Your critique is surely justified, but we see little chances to make an exchange during this tournament. We are sorry that we can’t give you better news.” So they knew very well internally how horrible he was.

But in the US, Jon Barry and Kenny Smith (Rudy’s dunk contest anyone) and Timbo’s friend Dickie V who can’t stop raving about Duke are starting to come close for basketball. Sam Rosen and Joe Buck and the rest of Fox for NFL.

Has anyone ever heard him analyze the NFL? This is a real quote he said when talking about a running back: “He’s the kind of back that makes plays with his legs…” Oh wow that is some in-depth observation there.

I find it hard to believe that anyone watches him to hear anything insightful about a game. He is there for comic relief, which has gone downhill in my opinion, and nothing else.

I like our Mikes—both of em.

The New Orleans team is very bad also.

it just depends on my mood, maybe a nice blend for color commentators would be ideal. All commentators are guilty of this which really irks me:
Telling a lame-ass story or going on a stupid tangent while an exciting steal/fastbreak is going on.

You can come back to your story during a break in the game, just do your damn job. I think more stand up comics/actors that know sports should broadcast if they want broadcasters to riff instead of just calling the damn game, sans dennis miller.

focuses on dumb garbage like player nicknames while losing complete track of what is going on in the game…sticks to a prepared narrative no matter what is actually happening in the game…what is frustrating about listening to him is he has a few falshes of good commentary, but overwhelms it with crap!

(Dis)honorable mentions:

• Stephen A. Smith
• The Luftman / Holton dream team
• Reggie Miller
• This guy

He’s either praising their new coach and trying not to act bitter about being fired and defending even legit criticisms of Yao (like him being injury prone) and before T Mac got hurt he’d spend half the time praising him and putting him on any top player list. When I’m watching a game I like to know about what’s going on and about the teams, but when he does Rockets games it’s like listening to someone talk about their ex. They’re either awkwardly nostalgic or passive aggressively talking about how great their new guy is and you’re happy their doing better. When he does other games he can be funny and is one of the few national announcers who points out ref mistakes. I just wish they’d make a rule he can’t do Rocket’s go far in the playoffs and it’s the only game espn has.

Duck TV broadcasts are terrible, I mean terrible. Absolutely painful.

As for radio, I love Jerry Allen for football, but for basketball, you have no idea what’s going on.

As for national guys, Joe Morgan, Joe Buck, Tim McCarver are all pretty bad. And I hate Erin Andrews. I’ve never seen a plain Jane with no insight get so much love.

ESPN announcers are terrible. for basketball and Monday Night Football. mike tirico and tony kornheiser on MNF? thats pretty bad. TNT is better in my opinion (Barkley, Kenny Smith, Reggie not included)

no doubt about it. biggest homer I have ever heard.

that calls snaps passes…

that really gets on my nerves

anyone know who I am talking about?