From PFT's live blog:
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Gumbel calls it a "game of field position" -- no, the teams are consistently starting at their own 20 or so, with no one getting any field position advantage. (Okay, we know we're being picky but this guy is driving up nuts.)
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Reader says: "I'm tempted to say that watching this game and listening to the dream team of Collinsworth and Gumble is like watching old people f--k. But I'm not sure that's fair to old people."
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A reader thinks that Collinsworth's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandma got busy with this buzzard.
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TacoBill found sent a picture of Gumbel and Collinsworth in the booth.
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Great Seinfeld reference from a reader, who thought Gumbel said "tippytoe" while Collinsworth was trying to get the tape out of the answering machine.
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Second quarter starts. Gumbel really is awful. Stinko was cheating forward before the snap -- that rarely gets called.
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Gumbel calls it a "game of field position" -- no, the teams are consistently starting at their own 20 or so, with no one getting any field position advantage. (Okay, we know we're being picky but this guy is driving up nuts.)
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Gumbel once again says that a team "will give it up on downs." (No -- they'll punt.)
Gumbel calls a punt angled inside the 20 a "shank."
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Collinsworth seems to forget that McNair and the Titans were driving for a tie, not the win, in Super Bowl XXXIV.
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"Why do crowds cheer when their coaches challenge?" asks Gumbel. (Um, maybe because it gives them hope for a better outcome from the last play?)
A reader thinks that Robin Roberts is doing the play-by-play.
A reader says that Gumbel's voice makes him wish that his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandma hadn't slept with anyone.
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A reader says that his German Shepherd can hear Gumbel just fine.
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Several readers say Gumbel's voice can't be heard.
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Listening to Gumbel's voice is like drinking a glass of tap water on a full stomach.
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Gumbel says that the Bengals "will turn it over on downs." (Um, no. They'll punt.)
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Gumbel apparently hasn't made it through puberty in the past week.
Hey -- just found out that the game is in HD on DirecTV Channel 95. Just in time to see the undulations of Cris Collinsworth's Adam's apple, which is only slightly smaller than Suzy Kolber'd.
"Vivid, exciting, luxurious HD," says Gumbel.
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