Who is your favorite football announcer/commentator?

miktoxic

al michaels has lost his mind and just rambles. collinsworth is a dolt.

i tell you who i'm really getting pissed at during this cavs run is mike tirico. everything is over-the-top and oh-my-god. i wish he saw something like that albeit it a piece of concrete falling onto his head.

WalterWhite

@typicalbrowns said:
Jim muthafuckin Donovan bitches

Agreed, I completely forgot how good he is with the Browns.

WalterWhite

Jon Gruden & Joe Buck are also vomit inducing

Dste Ace

I always liked Dick Enberg and Merlin Olson.

Cris Collinsworth and Jon Gruden are fucking awful.

Suomi

Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier from back in the day. They smoke anybody today. My support of them is probably an unintentional endorsement for alcohol. And I'm OK with that.

Canton Dawg

@walterwhite said:

I still think the best duo was the Pat Summerall/John Madden booth duo on Fox in the mid 90's

Summerall & Madden were together on CBS in the late '70's throughout the '80's and developed a pretty good chemistry together.

IMO, they were the best.

wargograw

Everyone is going to hate everyone, so these discussions always kinda suck. I for one like Collinsworth a lot. He sees things others don't see and he's also a big time partner in the PFF operation.

I also love ole Gary Danielson because he similarly finds things others don't. I thought Greg McElroy also showed a lot of promise as a rookie calling games last season. He was phenomenal.

Can't stand Gus Johnson. He would be awesome on radio, but the schtick is excessive on TV.

nickers

Jack Buck, Nev Chandler and Joe Tait were the best!

Opal312

Really miss Sumerall and Madden. They personified football. Gruden is my favorite because he calls out the refs and the unbearable amount of penalties. he always says to "let them play the game" so, yea, Gruden. Chris Collinsworth hates Cleveland and Al Michaels must have Alzheimer's. But Mike Mayock is really good on Thursdays.

Bob806

I loved Curt Gowdy & Al deRogatis, Pat Summerall & Tom Brookshier for the throwback classic guys.

Somebody mentioned Enberg & Olsen- they never put their pom poms down for Elway & Fouts. I always thought they were biased for the western NFL cities.

Today's tv play-by-play guys are too much into the hype, but I do like Troy Aikman & Gary Danielson as analysts. Mike Patrick on ESPN might be the best play-by-play guy now.

Gib Shanley painted the best picture for me on the radio. Jim Donovan never tells us where the ball is half the time, other than that he's fine.

Comeonman

Timmay!!!

hoorta

@bob806 said:

I loved Curt Gowdy & Al deRogatis, Pat Summerall & Tom Brookshier for the throwback classic guys.

Somebody mentioned Enberg & Olsen- they never put their pom poms down for Elway & Fouts. I always thought they were biased for the western NFL cities.

Today's tv play-by-play guys are too much into the hype, but I do like Troy Aikman & Gary Danielson as analysts. Mike Patrick on ESPN might be the best play-by-play guy now.

Gib Shanley painted the best picture for me on the radio. Jim Donovan never tells us where the ball is half the time, other than that he's fine.

OMG- I was just going to put up a post voting Gowdy as the WORST of all time- and it's not even close. (Short of Myron Cope- who should have been doing Maypo commercials when Arnold Stang retired) 1\2 the time Curt didn't even know who in the hell was playing and his commentary sucked.

I'd vote for Enberg and Olsen as best. And I always enjoyed John Madden's commentary.

DieHardBrownsFan

gumby73

@walterwhite said:

Agreed, I completely forgot how good he is with the Browns.

If you ever move out of the Buckeye State and listen to these other Hacks on NFL Ticket Browns Football is never the same with no Jim Donovan period.. Ernie Harwell still best ever in all sports..

gumby73

@comeonman said:
Timmay!!!

Ohhh Nellie!!

SkippinTurtles

Al Michaels has been solid for decades. No BS, just calls it and will even mix in "forbidden" gambling lines.

Zombo

Brokshier & Summerall were the best.

Both former players that went straight into the booth and drank their way across the USA ... but no one was better.

Flugel

@dste-ace said:

I always liked Dick Enberg and Merlin Olson.

Cris Collinsworth and Jon Gruden are fucking awful.

Me too w/ Enberg and Olson!

One guy that was nauseating was Dan Druff Dierdorf. Every time he'd brag about what he did back when telephones were wall mounted with a circular dial, Boomer's Esia's Son used to piss him off with perfectly timed smart ass.

The Gipper

Grew up on Jim Graner and Gib Shanley doing Browns games.

Since your question didn't limit it to NFL broadcasters you have to include Keith Jackson as a college football announcer.....not so much pro.

Another guy's voice associate with college was Lindsay Nelson.

Again, back in the day Ray Scott I think did all the Packers games on TV it seemed.

Sorry....but Doug Dieken is bad. He may know his stuff, but he is not articulate.

Musberger is much better as a play by play guy than he was as a studio host.

Gowdy probably was much better as a hunting and fishing announcer

Lynn Swann was probably the worst ever....he could seemingly hardly speak English.

But, the best duo.....I will go with Z and Summerall/Brookshire.

And you know what? When OJ gets out of jail I would like to see him do announcing again.....just for the pure irony/fun/ridiculousness of it.

Dste Ace

You can't have a list of worst-ever without mentioning Myron Cope.

Dear bleeding Christ.

That screeching voice and the most non-objective commentary ever. Perhaps only equaled by the

Atlanta Braves broadcasters (Skip Carey, etc.) on the Superstation in the '90's. Incapable of acknowledging

a good play by the opposing team while waxing on and on and on over the must mundane and routine

plays by the home team.