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It's been a while since I've seen Madden this critical. He really tore apart the Bear play calling of John Schoop. "The option is not a play that will work in the NFL"
New Soldier Field looks cool once you are in it, but from the outside
I'm not a fan of Madden or MNF, for that matter. Maybe when he quits, and they put on better games instead of big city teams all the time, I'll watch it more. For now, the football week ends for me when the Sunday night game ends (unless the Bills would play on Monday night, of course).
Originally posted by R. Rich I'm not a fan of Madden or MNF, for that matter. Maybe when he quits, and they put on better games instead of big city teams all the time, I'll watch it more. For now, the football week ends for me when the Sunday night game ends (unless the Bills would play on Monday night, of course).
I'm not either, unless it's a good game. But Madden has been so bland the last few years that I found it unusual for him to be this critical. I liked it.
Therein lies the problem for ABC. They want their guaranteed audience, so they put on the big market teams all the time (Dallas, New York, Chicago, etc.) and don't even attempt to match them up with someone good, which is how you get these Dallas vs. Arizona games almost every year on MNF. I think a lot of their problems have been the matchups they get, which lead to blowouts and/or 'ugly games' where no team can score and the play is sloppy. The problem is not in the booth, which is why Madden has not made a big difference in their declining ratings. The problem is on the field; these games just plain SUCK!! Until they fix that problem, it's not MNF for me: it's FMN!
Actually, week 1 (TB shut out Philly) is what football's all about.
Week 2 (NYG getting beat in OT by Dallas) was about as exciting as you could get.
Week 3 was enjoyable (any game where the Raider get whupped is)
Last night was almost as bad as watching the Bills play the last two weeks
Madden had to whip out the tellustrator too play tic tac toe to make it more exciting
Al Michaels, usually somewhat knowlegable, really fumbled all over the Hockey guys on the sideline.
There was a 4th quarter sideline shot of Brett Hull. Michaels called him Bobby Hull, then corrected himself. The camera pans back and he Identifies Chris Chelios, and he kept fumbling about trying to get the team they currently play for (Detroit).
Then a third face gets into the shot, and he called him Paul Coffey- (turns out it was his agent)
Finally, he goes into a diatribe on how How "while Hockey is great, and I'm an avid fan- in Hockey it's so hard to recognize the players because of the face masks they wear"
DUMBASS! If you were talking Goalies, sure... but he's announcing a FOOTBALL GAME where everyone is not only wearing masks, but full body armor!
That's even funnier- because after he admitted he didn't know who the guy he called "Paul Coffey" was, he said "We'll get back to you on who those guys are"
5 minuteds later, he tried to correct his errors (he had a laundry list) and he identified him as the agent.
Yeah, Ally & I were killing ourselves trying to figure out who it was...Tom Reich (Chelios's, Hull's & Mario Lemieux's) agent is an older, grey bearded fella.
Duschesne looks like that guy from 3 men & a baby...gutenberg ?
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