Just two things I'd like to rant on:
Number one, why the hell must I, as a sports fan be subjected to shitty cunt-ry/indie rock/bubble gum pop while I am watching a game? I am not your target audience, will never buy any of the "music" played nor will the majority of people Cut the crap and get back to basics and just put the theme music that people recognize and love and put some fancy graphics behind it. Simple enough.
YouTube - NBA on NBC Intro - 1999 Extended Introduction (Arcade)
YouTube - 1988 Clemson vs FSU CBS Intro
Oh and if you want to do put some "mainstream" music, do it in the intros, and do it right with either movie themes or a somewhat dramatic song
YouTube - Colts At Steelers 95' AFC Championship
This is extremely well done, Enberg is able to hype this into some sort of "Clash of the Titans" epic game, and would keep me GLUED to the TV, even though I HATE the Steelers.
Also, quit putting shitty announcers as the lead guys to do games. Mike Breen and Joe Buck are great examples of this. Both have no business calling championship games, they are both #2 crews on their best days.
Switch Gus Johnson over to doing lead for both CFB/CBB and quit having him call the NFL, he'd be perfect calling college games, dude deserves the promotion. Enough with Jim Nantz calling the Final Four, have him stick to the NFL and Golf, dude's a poor mans Dick Enberg, not a bad thing, but he doesn't translate well to CBB.
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Originally Posted by twonabomber
