Two articles crossed the Net this week, and both appear to indicate that even major players in NFL broadcasting and the like have had enough with the shit being passed off as pro football.
Take Al Michaels, for example, who had this to say about a lot of what he was asked to commentate on for Amazon on Thursday nights this season:
"I think they understood what this was. We're making the most of it. I mean, you just can't oversell something. Do you want me to sell you a 20-year-old Maza? That's what you're asking me to do. I can't sell you a used car," Michaels said. "I've kind of gone down that road a little bit in games that have been bad in the past. But this game [Colts-Broncos] was horrifically bad. What were you supposed to do at that point? And away I went."And Troy Aikman, on the state of play in general:
“I will say, the NFL, they’re really good at making a lot of money. They’re really good at that. And I don’t begrudge them for that. I say good for them and the marketing of the NFL. And we watch the popularity of the sport and out of the top 100 shows, 80 something of them were NFL games this year. I love all that.”“I just would like to see more emphasis on improving the product on the field,”“I’d like to see that there’s some interest in that as well. It seems like all these decisions are made to increase revenue, which is great, but then it’s less time on the field for players, and then it’s less time here, and the product begins to erode a little bit, and and I think we’ve got to be really, really careful about that and I’ve been saying that for a while.”Aikman went on to say that he questioned if he was watching professional football several times this season.“There were games that we watched, and I won’t say what network most of them were on, and I had to ask myself, ‘Is this professional football?’ There was some bad bad football being played, and that’s not good.”
Of course, no one who's read this blog would find that any degree of a surprise...
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