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How about Steve Nelson?
Tedy Bruschi?
Zolak as color-man?
Steve Grogan?
Gino is 77 years old!! He retired as a player over 50 years ago!! I'm sorry, but he's just not the best man for the job.
All due respect to him as a former Patriots great, but everyone time comes sooner or later, and his came quite a few years ago now already.
Listening to doddering old fools ramble on about nonsense doesn't interest me in the slightest. Collinsworth gives good, crisp, insightful analysis. He's a hundred million times better than anything Madden did in the last 10 years of announcing.
It absolutely makes sense, and any good announcing team will specify this. When I listen to a football game on radio I envision the field and plays in my mind's eye (from the press box side). It helps me process what's going on if I know the offense is trying to move "north" or "south." It also jives with any replays I might see later.
The direction the team is going is also important so you know where the players are lining up. If Gil says, "Brady in the shotgun with Woodhead to his right" you can get a better picture in your head of where that alignment is since you know the team is moving from right to left of the announce crew.
It's time to give Zolak more air-time and for Gino to hang up the mike.
So if they didn't say "left to right" or "right to left" your mind's eye wouldn't know what to do? Would it show the old time TV test signal?
What would happen to you later if you happened to see a replay that was shot from the opposite side of the field? Would that be really confusing? How would your mind interpret that experience?
A serious question: Are all of the replays shot from that same side?