Pet Peeve #4588
I'm watching the Atlanta-Cincinnati football game on Fox this afternoon (Michael Vick is my fantasy quarterback this week). If I hear Troy Aikman refer to Cincinnati's team as "the Bangles" one more time I'm going to eat a shoe.
Putting aside the fact that, as a Redskins fan, I hate Troy Aikman with a passion hotter than the surface of the sun, shouldn't a professional football announcer be able to pronounce both "Bengals" and "Jaguars" correctly? They aren't Bangles, and they aren't Jagwires. (Though Chad Johnson could certainly come up with some way to incorporate "Walk Like an Egyptian" into a touchdown dance. Boo-no.)
By the way, "Alge Crumpler" is a fun name to say, though not as fun as "Carlester Crumpler."
posted by Andrew Hamm @ 2:35 PM
18 Comments:
At 10/30/2006 7:54 AM ,
Anonymous said...
But the best name ever to say was "Tsimanga Biakabatuka" don't you think? I think he just goes by Tim now. Kathleen and I used to joke that in order to work in the broadcast booth, you had to be able to pronounce his name and say it over and over again without stumbling...
Think Troy can do it?
How bout those stillers...
Peter
At 10/30/2006 8:11 AM ,
Andrew Hamm said...
"Biakabutuka" is a heck of a lot of fun to say. So is "Houshmanzadeh."
At 10/30/2006 8:09 PM ,
Joey Fanelli said...
not sports relayed, but people like to say my name.
once i was in summer camp, i had to be only seven or eight, but there was this one really good looking girl working there, had to be in her mid 20s, who always smiled and said my name when she was around me.
needless to say, i enjoyed summer camp that year.
At 10/30/2006 8:09 PM ,
Joey Fanelli said...
related*
At 11/01/2006 8:40 AM ,
Andrew Hamm said...
Nice.
At 11/01/2006 9:48 AM ,
Unknown said...
No mention of the Fox Jack-o-Lantern Football Robot?
At 11/05/2006 10:55 AM ,
Andrew Hamm said...
DUMBEST THING EVER.
Watch: for thanksgiving weekend the robot will have a turkey head, or wear a Pilgrim hat or something.
At 11/05/2006 10:55 AM ,
Andrew Hamm said...
Pete,
Yeah, how 'BOUT those Stillers? The only team in the NFL that might be a bigger disappointment than the Redskins.
At 11/06/2006 12:28 PM ,
Joey Fanelli said...
they lost to the freakin' raiders, for god's sake.
At 11/07/2006 6:07 PM ,
Andrew Hamm said...
I know. That's harsh. Finally there's a team that's more of a disappointment than the Redskins.
At 11/08/2006 6:38 PM ,
Joey Fanelli said...
Never thought i'd see the day...
At 11/09/2006 8:29 AM ,
Andrew Hamm said...
I just want to mention again that the football robot is stupid.
At 11/09/2006 6:08 PM ,
Joey Fanelli said...
Yeah, I mean the next thing you know they will have robots building cars or something dumb like that.
At 11/12/2006 11:19 AM ,
Andrew Hamm said...
The FOX football robot is a transformer.
The Fox robot!
More than meets the Eye!
Football teams wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of
Other football teams!
At 11/12/2006 11:19 AM ,
Andrew Hamm said...
That gets to be its own post.
At 11/12/2006 12:02 PM ,
Joey Fanelli said...
My song was way better.
At 11/12/2006 12:02 PM ,
Joey Fanelli said...
It deserves it's own blog.
At 11/12/2006 12:42 PM ,
Andrew Hamm said...
"Carlester Crumpler."
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