Football "For the Other Half"
“….But Smalls don’t get down like that…”
I apologize for two straight football rants, but this just goes to show the world how the coming of the football season can uplift and inspire mankind.
Has anyone else noticed who the target audience must be for NBC’s new NFL football coverage on Sunday nights? I’ve been watching for four weeks now, and I’ve noticed some awfully “odd” things about it. In fact, I think it’s a football telecast designed for a rather “fabulous” group of men. Let’s delve into this a little deeper:
1. Instead of a no-frills name for the pre-game show, like “Sunday Night Football,” or “NFL on NBC,” the name of the telecast is “Football Night in America.” [Okay, then.]
2. Instead of having guys yell at each other or talk strategy, or demonstrate plays on a mock field (which is really cool, Fox, by the way), much of the segment involves four guys sitting back on easy chairs calmly discussing the days’ events, offering tepid commentary. [Hmm, interesting.]
3. And, let’s look at the hosts: Bob Costas, who knows nothing about football and looks like he is trying to make diamonds out of the lump of charcoal he has up his rear, the svelte Cris Collinsworth, who has a body like a female runway model, and his knowledge of football would make you think modeling actually was his former profession, and an oddly-dressed Sterling Sharpe and Jerome Bettis. [I’m starting to see a picture here.]
4. Back to the hosts’ clothing, I have seen purple, orange, and pink ties and dress shirts. This only in the first four weeks. [Can it be?]
5. Speaking of Pink, that is just the individual who performs the theme song for NBC's Sunday night coverage. [Ouch.]
6. Toward the end of the show, Collinsworth and Costas move over to a TV screen encased in oak to diagram one play, I repeat, one play and one play only, from the entire week. This makes sense, since Collinsworth and Costas know the absolute least about football of everyone doing the telecast. C & C spend 15 seconds discussing a replay and the rest of the time talking about how “big” the TV screen is. [Oh, Lord.]
All of this leads me to one, inescapable conclusion: this is clearly football for the other half. And I only have one thing to say about it:
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I apologize for two straight football rants, but this just goes to show the world how the coming of the football season can uplift and inspire mankind.
Has anyone else noticed who the target audience must be for NBC’s new NFL football coverage on Sunday nights? I’ve been watching for four weeks now, and I’ve noticed some awfully “odd” things about it. In fact, I think it’s a football telecast designed for a rather “fabulous” group of men. Let’s delve into this a little deeper:
1. Instead of a no-frills name for the pre-game show, like “Sunday Night Football,” or “NFL on NBC,” the name of the telecast is “Football Night in America.” [Okay, then.]
2. Instead of having guys yell at each other or talk strategy, or demonstrate plays on a mock field (which is really cool, Fox, by the way), much of the segment involves four guys sitting back on easy chairs calmly discussing the days’ events, offering tepid commentary. [Hmm, interesting.]
3. And, let’s look at the hosts: Bob Costas, who knows nothing about football and looks like he is trying to make diamonds out of the lump of charcoal he has up his rear, the svelte Cris Collinsworth, who has a body like a female runway model, and his knowledge of football would make you think modeling actually was his former profession, and an oddly-dressed Sterling Sharpe and Jerome Bettis. [I’m starting to see a picture here.]
4. Back to the hosts’ clothing, I have seen purple, orange, and pink ties and dress shirts. This only in the first four weeks. [Can it be?]
5. Speaking of Pink, that is just the individual who performs the theme song for NBC's Sunday night coverage. [Ouch.]
6. Toward the end of the show, Collinsworth and Costas move over to a TV screen encased in oak to diagram one play, I repeat, one play and one play only, from the entire week. This makes sense, since Collinsworth and Costas know the absolute least about football of everyone doing the telecast. C & C spend 15 seconds discussing a replay and the rest of the time talking about how “big” the TV screen is. [Oh, Lord.]
All of this leads me to one, inescapable conclusion: this is clearly football for the other half. And I only have one thing to say about it:
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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