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Sports commentator gaffes

How about this one. A player carries the ball very close to the 1st down marker. What do we always here? "It depends on the spot." Really? :rolleyes:
 
The one I hate the most is anytime there is a fumble , the announcer with any college or pro experiance will always say "You dont want to know what goes on in that pile". Troy Aikmen says it alot, but when Joe Buck says it, it just sounds untrustworthy.
Sabanball- that was so painful.
And who ever that is with the Joe Kines avitar is killing me. Every time they post I keep thinking its him and start laughing.:biggrin2:
 
Not necessarily a commentator gaffe, but the first possession after a touchback and they bring out the chains to measure for a first down when the ball is clearly spotted on the 30 yard line. What's to measure? Drives me up the freaking wall.
 
Tiger Ball!!!!

I think this started in Basketball, but I hate it when a team takes over possession and the commentator shouts out something like "Georgia Ball!" or "Florida Ball!!!!" which is grammatically incorrect.
 
lynyrd skynyrd said:
Howard Cosell, and his "look at the little monkey run"...
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yeah i was going to post that as soon as i got to the end of the posts...i seem to remember several announcers saying "for the win" when there is a go-ahead extra point with say 30 seconds left...any time there is time on the clock it is "for the lead" not win
 
Even though it may not be a gaffe, it is sure to give everyone who reads it a headache. How about "Big man on big man." Wow, I could have sworn that the WR was the most important player on the field on 4th and inches. :eek:
 
I think it was during one of the early bowl games that usually have the 4th string commentators...instead of saying "he ran that one right up the middle", he said "...right up the middical." Also, one time they said "foot game" instead of "football game". I catch a bunch of these gaffes since tivo came out. What gets to me the most is they never even acknowledge when they mess up. The bafoon on ESPN (can't think of name, but he was with Mike Gottfried) is the worst. I'll never forget when he called Freddie Roach, "Freddie ROAD" for the entire game @ Tenn in 2002! don't forget Brady Croyle!
 
I think it was in a BB tourney and they tell you which team is which with a legend that comes up...They had Alabama in Maroon jerseys.

Dizzy Dean - he slud into second......
 
I think it was during one of the early bowl games that usually have the 4th string commentators...instead of saying "he ran that one right up the middle", he said "...right up the middical." Also, one time they said "foot game" instead of "football game". I catch a bunch of these gaffes since tivo came out. What gets to me the most is they never even acknowledge when they mess up. The bafoon on ESPN (can't think of name, but he was with Mike Gottfried) is the worst. I'll never forget when he called Freddie Roach, "Freddie ROAD" for the entire game @ Tenn in 2002! don't forget Brady Croyle!
 
One that always got a snarl out of me was, "He made a wise decision," when the punt returner took a knee in the end zone. It might have been the dumbest decision of the day, but it still got labeled wise. Thankfully this cliche was worn out and isn't used much any more.:mad:
 
"Boom goes the dynamite" is the worst sportscast I've ever seen. It must have been a campus station run by students, but still, that guy couldn't even read the teleprompter.

FWIW, I remember a few years ago commentators would say, "It's third down and a long 2" (when it was a little less than 3 yards). Never understood why they didn't just say "It's third down and close to three yards." BTW, that terminology isn't used much anymore.
 
BamaMoon said:
"Boom goes the dynamite" is the worst sportscast I've ever seen. It must have been a campus station run by students, but still, that guy couldn't even read the teleprompter.

FWIW, I remember a few years ago commentators would say, "It's third down and a long 2" (when it was a little less than 3 yards). Never understood why they didn't just say "It's third down and close to three yards." BTW, that terminology isn't used much anymore.
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yeah that kid who did that went to ball state in indiana where d. letterman went....my friend goes there and that guy still had a job at the station after that debacle but it definitely wasn't sportscasting any more
 
Bodhisattva said:
a tendency to interchange the offensive infraction of "fault start" and the defensive one of "offsides"
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This has always puzzled me. I thought that a defensive player can cross the neutral zone, and, as long as he doesn't make contact with an offensive player, if he gets back out of the neutral zone before the snap, he is okay. No penalty.
Now, if the defensive player makes contact with an offensive player, then it is a penalty, but I thought that if there was no contact, and the defensive player got back before the snap of the ball, there was no enalty.
But I recall announcers saying, when a defensive player is in the neutral zone (but no contact with an offensive player) and an offensive player moves (but the ball wasn't snapped), the sports commentators will frequently say that the refs have to see if the defensive player's movement caused the offensive player to move.
If there is no contact and the ball isn't snapped, I would think that any time an offensive player moves he is commiting a penalty.
Can somebody clear this up for me?
 
Cossell's "monkey" comment was a biggie. Also I guess you'd have to classify Kinchen's "that's a little gay" comment as a gaffe since it got him fired by the nincompoops at ESPN.
 
Cossell's monkey comment turned many more people against him. He was a love him or hate him kind of guy.

A golf commentator got in some hot water a few years ago too about commenting about women's breast hindering the golf swing.
 
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