Mayo announcers may have been worst ever

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Oregon vs Ohio was brutal - self centered jack wagons that talked about themselves incessantly and never shut up. It’s like they felt the need to entertain us rather than let the game do it.
 

I think the winner of the mayor bowl and the pop tarts bowl should play in the gimmick bowl. It could run during the national championship similar to how the puppy bowl airs during the super bowl. Then the announcers could eat pop tarts covered in mayonnaise.

I actually appreciate that this bowl game leans into the hokiness. It would be silly to try to treat the game as some kind of major championship between a 7-5 B1G team and a 6-6 ACC team both playing on depleted rosters due to opt outs.
 

goldenboy said:
Still no reason for the “B” team (or C D E F?) booth crew. It’s not like all of the bowls are on the same day anymore. ESPN could have covered the entire bowl season with their top 4 or 5 crews. But no. Maybe the announcers union makes sure that all of the “talent” gets to work a bowl, no matter how far down the ladder they are. These guys seemed like the dudes that steady the ladder rather than climbers.
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There are plenty of valid reasons for not sending the crews that were at the CFP games to Charlotte just 2 days later for a Bowl game is the text book definition of "after thought".

Other assignments, preparing for the next round, needing a break (there's more to it than just showing up), extra travel...
 


NateDawgUM said:
If we had the "A" team they would have spent the whole game arguing about the play off teams.
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I have a hard time envisioning Herbstreit trying a piece of pumpkin pie slathered in Duke's Mayo.
 

over the years, I have tried to train my brain to filter out most of the noise. I will perk up and pay attention if/when the announcers say something that I cannot see for myself simply by watching the game.

in short, my test - if you watched the game with the sound off, would you miss anything significant?

most of the time, it's a "no." all you miss with the sound off is the occasional update on injuries and/or explanations of penalties.

otherwise, a reasonably intelligent football fan can watch a game with the sound off and never miss anything that matters.
 

NateDawgUM said:
The key marketing terms in the post-Covid world are "authenticity" and "imperfection."

All this shit is designed for you in board rooms. The production "errors," the sticky fingers from bbq sauce, the gagging on live air.
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All of which was completely inauthentic.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
over the years, I have tried to train my brain to filter out most of the noise. I will perk up and pay attention if/when the announcers say something that I cannot see for myself simply by watching the game.

in short, my test - if you watched the game with the sound off, would you miss anything significant?

most of the time, it's a "no." all you miss with the sound off is the occasional update on injuries and/or explanations of penalties.

otherwise, a reasonably intelligent football fan can watch a game with the sound off and never miss anything that matters.
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If you watch with the sound off, how do you know if you missed anything significant?
 




USAF said:
If you watch with the sound off, how do you know if you missed anything significant?
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if the game stops and the refs are huddling up, you know something happened. then they show replays of the same play 10 times. likewise with a serious injury.

my point is that announcers can add something to the experience of watching a game IF they can explain strategy or illustrate why a certain play worked. but a lot of the time, they don't. if a WR makes a nice catch, I can see it. I don't need some former 2nd-string QB telling me "that was a really nice catch."

with the on-screen graphics, yellow line for 1st down, etc, most of the time you don't need the announcers to follow the game. like watching a game in a noisy sports bar. TV is about images. radio is about words.
 

GopherEnEspaña said:
You guys. We were playing in the Duke's Mayo bowl in a half empty stadium. Our coach got a waterfall of mayo dumped on him by Flavor Flav. You need to relax and and just enjoy that our boys made it to a bowl game and came out with a W and good vibes heading into the offseason.

Relax, life is short. Have fun.
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Bingo. They played the part perfectly. It's a bowl game with almost no stakes. It's supposed to be fun. Only thing that bothered me was the stick up the one guy's ass about 50/50 pass interference calls.
 

goldenboy said:
Still no reason for the “B” team (or C D E F?) booth crew. It’s not like all of the bowls are on the same day anymore. ESPN could have covered the entire bowl season with their top 4 or 5 crews. But no. Maybe the announcers union makes sure that all of the “talent” gets to work a bowl, no matter how far down the ladder they are. These guys seemed like the dudes that steady the ladder rather than climbers.
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Barrie was on the broadcast last year with the same delivery; I’m sure if Dukes had a major issue with him, he wouldn’t be booth this year.

Additionally, the better broadcasting teams are prepping for the upcoming games they will be calling.

Lastly, I heard several play-by-play guys act like every third down picked up was game changing, ala, Joe Tesitore’s style, which personally is exhausting for my 👂
 
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The announcers were good. I like Harry Lyles antics throughout the game. The audio production was kind of off with some sort of delay, but it didn’t faze me too much.

Had it been the CFP, then I would expect a serious X and O’s breakdown with expert analysis. The announcers brought a fun element into the game and it kept me entertained with all the bantering. It reminded me of the Manning Cast on Monday nights.
 

Barrie had a lot of factual mistakes, like describing Lewis as being a transfer from “Ahdeena” and a transfer from ND…

Otherwise I thought they had fun, which matched the show they were trying to put on.
 

GopherNtn said:
The announcers were good. I like Harry Lyles antics throughout the game. The audio production was kind of off with some sort of delay, but it didn’t faze me too much.

Had it been the CFP, then I would expect a serious X and O’s breakdown with expert analysis. The announcers brought a fun element into the game and it kept me entertained with all the bantering. It reminded me of the Manning Cast on Monday nights.
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Lyles is good, also used to be a good Twitter follow, but that site is hard to see the tweets you want, idk if that is still the case.
 

Ope3 said:
I chuckled when they they were talking about Quinn Carroll from "Eh-DEEN-ah".

The mayo bit was beat into the ground, but I am sure that directive came from above.

Otherwise for a Bowl game on a Friday night between 2 middle of the pack teams from their respective conferences with several starters out were just fine. No better or worse than an FS1 or BTN broadcast, IMO.
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I thought he said Martez was from Edina, will have to go back and watch.
 



SJUgopher said:
I thought he said Martez was from Edina, will have to go back and watch.
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Quite possible/likely I misremembered, I thought he was referencing a transfer from Notre Dame, so I assumed Carroll.

I was watching via DVR and skipping between plays a lot, so I am far from a credible witness.
 

UpAndUnder43 said:
I enjoyed the broadcast. I don’t need or expect deep football insight from announcers.
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Me too.....really don't get people getting bent out of shape about it. The announcers were having fun with the absurdity of a bowl game with all kinds of mayo themed product placement.

But people love to complain about things on the internet so to each their own I guess.
 

alchemy2u said:
I was mildly wondering who this "big" celebrity would? Someone that is famous enough that most people know, but low enough down the food chain that they would agree to running around in a mayonnaise bottle costume.

Well, they did about the best they could with Flavor Flav
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He qualifies as celebrity adjacent. Fleck was really excited to see him.
 

I loved the dad jokes, my wife did not. So there you have it. 10/10 take the improv style ridiculous product placement train wreck over Gus/Klatt agonizing over every word.
 

MNVCGUY said:
Me too.....really don't get people getting bent out of shape about it. The announcers were having fun with the absurdity of a bowl game with all kinds of mayo themed product placement.

But people love to complain about things on the internet so to each their own I guess.
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Not just the Internet. My 80 year old father called me to specifically complain about the announcers.
 


The game is re-airing in the 60 minute version on BTN right now for anyone interested.

No time for the Mayonnaise gags.

The announcers are just fine.
 

Swaggerson said:
Horrible! Spitting food. Constant chatter about nonsense. Very little football insight.
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Wife and I thought that at the beginning and they grew on us. It is a quirky bowl game and had quirky announcers and they did their job. The guy spitting out the dilly bar and mayo was fantastic...
 


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