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- From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Inauguration Parade Coverage (Was: Sta
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- Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:19:42 GMT
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- baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) writes:
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- >ObPeeve: Joe [Theismann] went on to become one of the most annoying
- >announcers on TV.
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- My dad is a football fanatic extraordinaire, and it's a rare winter
- weekend indeed when he doesn't have the TV tuned to a game. This is
- peevesome because it makes it rather difficult to carry on a conver-
- sation, and because being rather hard of hearing due to some radical
- kind of ear infection years ago, he always has the volume cranked
- way up. I have very sensitive hearing, thanks in no small part to
- taking great precautions to avoid the dreaded Turboprop Ear, so the
- volume is particularly trying -- especially for someone who's not a
- sports fan.
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- Being a part-time reluctant football viewer, I can't help acquiring
- a basic familiarity with the announcers, and this had led me to
- develop a venomous dislike for John Madden. The guy has an incredibly
- irritating, adenoidal voice, and he never shuts up! He seems to have
- a pathological fear of dead air, and will say something -- anything --
- to prevent so much as a moment of silence during the telecast. Adding
- insult to injury is the fact that so many of his comments are so inane;
- he contributes little but unnecessary noise. Whenever I have to listen
- to him, I have an almost overpowering urge to jump up and yell, "Will you
- *shut up* for once in your life?! Just fucking *shut up!*" Howard Cosell
- annoyed a lot of people with his motor-mouthed commentary, but Madden is
- far worse.
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- Geoff
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