I've started watching some NFL preseason football this week, in preparation for my fantasy football drafts, the first of which is tonight. This is a lot easier to do these days with the help of the DVR and the NFL Network, which rebroadcasts all the preseason games at odd times of the day. So I just record 'em, fast forward through the ads and delays, and watch the parts with players that I'm interested in.
One of the things that I love about these broadcasts are the total-homer broadcast teams. During the regular season games are broadcast by national networks that broadcast the game into both markets, so the broadcasters have to maintain some semblence of neutrality. But during the preseason the games are broadcast by the teams themselves, so they get to hire the announcers. Needless to say, the broadcasts are filled with effusive praise of the team doing the broadcast.
The Patriots/Eagles game had my favorite moment of this week in preseason NFL broadcasting. It featured a homer Iggle broadcast team. At one point Patriot running back Lawrence Maroney made this great videogame-esque move in a hole where he shifted about two yards to the left, ran by the Eagle middle linebacker, and picked up another five yards. And so the homer Iggle broadcasters tried to make out that the linebacker had done his job by forcing him to change directions.
Sorry homer Iggle broadcasters, but when your middle linebacker has a one-on-one tackle on a running back in the hole, and ends up picking up his jock, turning around, and jumping on the pile after a safety makes the tackle five yards downfield, the middle linebacker has not done his job.
Man, I love these hired-by-the-home-team preseason broadcast announcers.
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