As a Bears fan there really wasn't much of a reason to watch yesterday's big game, the hated Packers were there instead of Da Bears because our massively over-paid quarterback got a boo-boo mid-way through the championship game and didn't want to play anymore lest he get really hurt, and the Steelers were being led on the field by a guy who, allegedly, has more than a little difficulty understanding what the word 'no' means when said out loud by a woman...With neither team being much inspiration to sit through the 3 1/2 hour broadcast of stop-start-stop-action that is the modern game of American Football, interrupted by frequent commercial breaks and coaches challenges as it is, the final straw for me was the network doing the broadcast. It was Fox. And Joe Buck was the lead announcer.
I decided to find alternate entertainment.
As luck would have it BBC America was running back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back (you get the idea) episodes of Top Gear, all day long. Whoever came up with that idea should be Knighted. Immediately. I thought I couldn't hate anyone more fiercely than the white-hot hatred I have for Bob Costas of NBC, but sweet jesus Joe Buck, the number one announcer for Fox Sports, really just sets me off. He's yet another smug bastard in a long-line of never-played-a-sport-in-my-life, always-picked-last-when-it-was-PE, know-it-all smart arses that somehow manage to weasel their way into prime spots on the airwaves in this country. He would be a used car salesman if it weren't for his old man, and yet this prissy little git speaks as though he knows from personal experience what it's like to have been on the field of play. He's the kind of guy that was born on third base, and thought that he hit a triple.
In other words, a total arsehole.
So, the thought of watching two teams I could give a crap about, on a network I despise, commentated on by America's largest walking rectum would have sent me straight over the cliffs of sanity if it had not been for the endless repeats of Clarkson et al on the Beeb. Thanks lads! That was a close one.
No comments:
Post a Comment