This is called kiddums, Oxford definition here, Richmond hate. You don't have to know you're racist to be racist.
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Bruce McAvaney
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This is called kiddums, Oxford definition here, Richmond hate. You don't have to know you're racist to be racist.
Especially when we hit the lead and the game was ours.
No mention of Stanley's under 12's drop mark.
No mention of Blivasss putting in a shocker.
No mention that Dangerfield should've just went home at half time.
When the siren went, it was like round 4 win at princess Park.
Where was the Unstoppable tigers?
The best team?
Champion team?
Champion coach?
McAvaney should've left at 3qtr time
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Agree with most of your post TM, however as a big fan of gridiron the commentary is light years ahead of our game (don't follow the baseball so can't comment on that). Tony Romo is very good.
The peak was when Pat Summerall and John Madden would commentate games. No fake emotion or stupid pronunciation of players names (Ooooorazio!).
Just fantastic unbiased analysis and calling of the play.
Ch 7 should replace MacAvaney with Matt Granland. Quality footy caller on the radio.
Really good point. I watch a lot of NFL too - and MLB - and the professionalism of commentators throughout the game is eons better than the drivel, barracking and general fakeness of our amateurs. They are better prepared, researched, less bias driven and stick to the game more than trying to make it about them necessarily.
(Jim Nantz is also very good.)
See ya Bruce! Unfortunately leaves a hole for someone much less skilled and far more annoying to step into.
TV commentary is like match day entertainment. At best bearable, in the main annoying, at worst infuriating. Brian Taylor is the King of the latter.
TV commentary is like match day entertainment. At best bearable, in the main annoying, at worst infuriating. Brian Taylor is the King of the latter.
Gold ....ahhh the days of real TV and real comedy when life was good and people weren't a bunch of pissants.
Loved the Late Show they did some good stuff late 80's early 90's.
SEN broadcasting took a nose dive when they let Matty G go.
Had a good feel for the moment and the commentary.
Then again the whole station has pretty much taken a nosedive.
I occaisionally watch a "AFL reaction" vid on YouTube. There are actually a couple of those guys who know their stuff. They love our commentators. They seem to like the (depending on caller) OTT nature of it. They find US commentary staid. It's like they crave what we have and we crave theirs.
Would I be right in saying MMM radio started the rot? Back slapping boys club? Who will try to out do each other today with some over the top statement?
Romo is an amazing commentator. Jason Whitten was very good when he first retired and I look forward to him returning to the mic but Romo is in a class of his own for mine. It adds so much to a telecast when you are enthusiastic but lack a real strategic knowledge of the game.
Their game allows for more play by play analysis with its stop start nature, fantastic camera work and abundance of replays. And distinct positions & phases of play.
I'd like to see Adam Papalia replace McAvaney, he flies under the radar a bit, but is a good commentator and doesn't waffle on like the other flogs.
www.afl.com.au
Dazzling Castagna bursts past all, including ump
Jason Castagna turns on the jets and scores a tremendous goal after skipping past everyone
I just press the button. I dunno what the channel is. Anyway, Channel Whatever hired and promoted somebody called 'Duck' to call football games. At his most urbane this Duck fellow is mute. (It doesn't happen often enough but it will happen.) The genius who hired Duck to express endless *smile* bitterness retained Bruce to add some class to the commentary. And maybe to try to teach some class the this Duck gibberer.
What evolved, and will continue, is that Duck talked less.
And this other bitter creep. This BT, with his endless snivelling and negativity, was to be elevated by the presence of somebody who can read and write. This BT sniveller will deadset *smile* on the windows of the commentary box because he thinks that's the contest.
This Duck and this BT. If you or I were in the commentary box with them we might just douse em with the fire extinguisher. Then get some HazMat specialist to take em away. Bruce couldn't do that. He had to carry them.
Ibsen died with Alzheimers. I read once that not long before he died a family member found him at a typewriter, pressing random keys. And Ibsen looked up and said "I used to be a great writer, you know."
It doesn't matter who you are, God's gunna cut you down. But it was men who set the dying Bruce impossible tasks when he was at his weakest. And the poetry is in that - he went okay.
What evolved, and will continue, is that Duck talked less.
And this other bitter creep. This BT, with his endless snivelling and negativity, was to be elevated by the presence of somebody who can read and write. This BT sniveller will deadset *smile* on the windows of the commentary box because he thinks that's the contest.
This Duck and this BT. If you or I were in the commentary box with them we might just douse em with the fire extinguisher. Then get some HazMat specialist to take em away. Bruce couldn't do that. He had to carry them.
Ibsen died with Alzheimers. I read once that not long before he died a family member found him at a typewriter, pressing random keys. And Ibsen looked up and said "I used to be a great writer, you know."
It doesn't matter who you are, God's gunna cut you down. But it was men who set the dying Bruce impossible tasks when he was at his weakest. And the poetry is in that - he went okay.
