FOX Soccer Channel Stupidity Thread

Discussion in 'TV, Satellite & Radio' started by MasterShake29, Sep 5, 2009.

  1. hehe

    hehe New Member

    Mar 30, 2006
    ^ oh yeah.

    oh ********ing yeah
     
  2. hehe

    hehe New Member

    Mar 30, 2006
    i cant believe fs+ ran the bottomline all game today during the tri nations. cant say im surprised but thats absolutely pathetic.

    i'll be sure to forward the address of fsc hq to al-queda. ********ing assholes.
     
  3. FallOfFingolfin

    Mar 5, 2009
    Illinois
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You stay classy.
     
  4. hehe

    hehe New Member

    Mar 30, 2006
    like fox soccer right? speaking of which, soccer talk live is on right now!
     
  5. BocaFan

    BocaFan Member+

    Aug 18, 2003
    Queens, NY
    Who is the guy who narrates the CL highlights show? It's one stupid comment after another. Uttered something about Group C being the group of death today. lol
     
  6. blackhornet

    blackhornet Member

    Jun 26, 2008
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Rogandino. I noticed while he was reading one highlight - I think Benfica - it was as if he was seeing it for the first time as the guy he was about to say had scored - didn't! but he caught it. Nice. I don't understand why they can't have Warren and Christopher do a breakdown for the Highlights show even if it's only one game.
     
  7. BocaFan

    BocaFan Member+

    Aug 18, 2003
    Queens, NY
    Sometimes I wonder if these guys and gals that work there really have a passion for soccer(?). You'd think they must. They're not doing it for the money or Winnipeg-living, surely.

    It must be a much more difficult job than it seems.
     
  8. CBusCrew12

    CBusCrew12 Member

    Apr 19, 2005
    Ohio, USA
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Or they're near or at the bottom of the barrel of their profession, and that's all that the channel can afford.
     
  9. tambo

    tambo Member

    Jun 9, 2007
    Of course it's a difficult job! What in the world would make you think it isn't?

    (And FSC's personnel are in Los Angeles, not Winnipeg.)
     
  10. BocaFan

    BocaFan Member+

    Aug 18, 2003
    Queens, NY
    I didn't say it wasn't.

    Equally bad IMO.
     
  11. tambo

    tambo Member

    Jun 9, 2007
    Right, I know. That's why I wrote, "what WOULD make you think it isn't?"

    You said that the job can "seem" not difficult... so I'm just wondering what can make it seem that way.
     
  12. BocaFan

    BocaFan Member+

    Aug 18, 2003
    Queens, NY
    I think it has a moderate amount of difficulty, like most jobs. But some of them are making it seem very difficult. I think if someone has a passion for soccer then a lot of the difficulty is removed.
     
  13. tambo

    tambo Member

    Jun 9, 2007
    Working with something you love can make the job more enjoyable, certainly, even more rewarding, but by no means does it make the job easier. And "enjoyable" is relative anyway: No matter how much you love something, the fact that it becomes a job always risks diminishing it on a personal level. (Think of the proverbial "jaded music critic," or the bartender who comes to hate drinking, or the pastry chef who eventually detests the smell of cake.)

    Being on the clock always changes the dynamics. It's easy for us to forget that as fans. It's one thing to say, "Hell yeah, I'd love to get paid to sit around talking about soccer." It's something else altogether to do it on command, backed by the right amount of research, conveyed with the appropriate confidence and authority, with bosses in your ear and some jerk you can't stand on your set, in eternal good spirits even when your wife just served the divorce papers... all with the pressure of an audience watching you.

    I'm not saying these guys are toiling like coal miners or arguing cases before the Supreme Court. And by no means am I saying they all do good jobs. (This is called the "stupidity thread" for a reason.) I'm just saying that, yes -- doing this stuff is harder than it often looks, and while "passion" might help make it personally satisfying, it's not some automatic ticket to success.
     
  14. blackhornet

    blackhornet Member

    Jun 26, 2008
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    yeah - they're still working within the constraints of TV incl. commercial breaks and sponsor mentions and UEFA demands and the like.
     
  15. hehe

    hehe New Member

    Mar 30, 2006
    fs+ has cleaned their act up a little bit. their god awful bottom line now runs through its cycle once instead of a set amount of time which was approximately 5 minutes.

    it still pops up every 10 minutes and they are still running it on live and premiere games from competitions such as the Aviva Premiership, Magners League, and ITM Cup. keep that shit off the screen!

    their definition of news is hilariously liberal too.
     
  16. simont

    simont Member

    Nov 15, 2005
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    So i tarn on dream team and it starts 42 min late that is fine but they cut it looks like Half the show now that wood be fine if it had been shown Already but it has not. o and this episord will not be shown Agene. this is Stupidity. come on fox get Your act togther.
     
  17. hehe

    hehe New Member

    Mar 30, 2006
    its because some wps game went into extra time. i missed most of my recording of premier league review because of it.

    cant wait till that league dies a second time.
     
  18. simont

    simont Member

    Nov 15, 2005
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    What fox needs to larn to do is if a show is lets say 35min late and it has not been shown let then show it at a later date or time or put it on fsc+ if anything and put some thing at the boturm that says this show can be seen on fsc+ or at later date. but like the paeson above me said i also can not wrate untel the wps is gone no bodey Watches it.
     
  19. Jamooky

    Jamooky Member+

    Mar 24, 2006
    Cleveland, OH USA
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    public school?
     
  20. MasterShake29

    MasterShake29 Member+

    Oct 28, 2001
    Jersey City, NJ
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You two deserve each other.
     
  21. themaestro

    themaestro Member

    Nov 9, 2005
  22. 7spencer7

    7spencer7 Member

    Mar 25, 2008
    Outside Boston
    Club:
    Colorado Rapids
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Jesus ********ing Christ.

    And again for effect:

    Jesus ********ing Christ.
     
  23. CBusCrew12

    CBusCrew12 Member

    Apr 19, 2005
    Ohio, USA
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Is this satire? I sure hope so.
     
  24. sjsocrfan

    sjsocrfan New Member

    Jul 30, 2009
    Club:
    FC Gold Pride
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Not even close to that educated.
     
  25. simont

    simont Member

    Nov 15, 2005
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Go f##k off

    And that Go’s for the rest of you no bodey is Perfect i have said this befor and i will say it Agene I come on hear to talk football not to be made fun off I can’t help it ok it is a diabete now if all of you want to go on making fun of me because of that then there is some thing Wong with all of you.
     

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