Re: I'm sorry to post this....
Which reminds me of something else....
This is just my OP, but I'd like to get others as well.
I'm sexist when it comes to being a football fan...there, I said it!
I don't want to hear a woman announcing a football game. I can't imagine hearing "...OH, and he's NAILED just shy of the goal line" coming from a woman's voice...is it just me?
If I want to have a good football discussion, it has to be with men even though I know there are some women who know their football.
And if I'm gonna watch my team in the BIG GAME, I prefer watching it with other men...men...men...men...men...men...IS IT JUST ME?
The men men men men part of your post has me a little creeped out, but as long as we are going to go down this slippery slope about male versus female announcers, I will throw in my two cents worth.
Football is about people hitting people in the mouth and snot flying around and bloody elbows and kicking and scratching people in the pile-up. I personally cannot stand the way football fans are becoming soft and politically correct about the sport itself, and I definitely don't want a soft touch to the reporting. I don't find the sideline reporting of the women to be particularily interesting, and I don't want football to become gossipy (although our politically sensitive media is already making it that way).
But I don't rule out that there are some women who really understand the game of football. My wife gets the fact that these 300 pound guys are hitting each other on every play. She likes when Rodney lays somebody out in the middle of a game. She gets the idea that football is a bloodsport. She doesn't try to pretend that it is some kind of politically sensitive sport that reflects the current trends in the media. If she announced football, she would be like "Yeah, that was a hard hit, that sent a message".
So I think that it takes the right kind of women or man to be a football announcer. But honestly, when you see the weak, sniveling metrosexual crew of Sunday Night Football, it is not a stretch to think that there are women that could do a much better job. When you get a bunch of sensitive whiny crybabies together, it really doesn't fit with the game of football.
The basic problem is that football is a sport where virtually 100% of the values are based on fighting and conquering. Some women understand this and relate to typically male, aggressive feelings, some women don't. A lot of MEN clearly don't get what football is really about, and that includes a lot of fans who post at websites. They just think that because they are politically correct and sensitive and metro that somehow the sport of football should be seen or understood on their terms. The truth is that there is really no place for a soft touch in the actual game of football, so the reporting should reflect what is going on in the game, IMO.
I can't stomach the NFL's need to pretend that these football players are outstanding members of our community. Most of them are highly paid, hyper-aggressive people with a mean streak. A large percent of them would be street punks if they didn't have this structure in their life. They are paid to hit each other.
Anyway, I guess what pisses me off more than anything is men or women who try to view, explain, or talk about football in a soft, politically correct manner. That ain't football. The game has not changed in 100 years, and the players are still the same type players. It is the media that is trying to force soft values on the game, where they don't belong.
I don't care who talks about football as long as they keep it real, and on-topic, and unbiased.
