edwards.... what did he do wrong?? the article says that his call of WC02 was his downfall??? how so??? he was obviously pulling for the US during the games, but SO WHAT??? you got a guy in there thats actually pulling for the team, and his enthusiam showed..... was he the one that said "mine eyes have seen the glory...." ? that was kinda hokey though...
edwards has been consistently terrible for a very long time. but he's not the kind of terrible that makes one furious. the constant ignorant loud obnoxious commentator that john madden is. sure he talks alot. but if ESPN gets rid of him then how the hell are we EVER going to play the Jack and Ty Drinking Game. I for one am going to pour some whiskey out onto the concrete the day jack is fired... for all the times i laughed hysterically at one of cobis SPEED MOVES or anytime someone climbed the ladder and pounded in a torpedo header.. may those quirks live long and proud in the minds of US soccer fans forever.
John Madden obnoxious? John Madden ignorant? Madden is very humble and knows more about the game than almost anyone that ever coached or played the game.
Edwards brought a naive sense of discovery to the booth -- like he was seeing game for the first time, and finding the words as he went along. Maybe he was. I thought "speed move" was a great, strictly American response to what he saw. Nothing wrong with that -- with any of it -- in my book. I was more embarrassed by our play vs. Poland than from anything out of Jack's mouth.
americans in top games prefer people that do not act as homers... check out the world series, stanley cup, nba championship, superbowl and anything else jack was a homer... he's ok for hockey and mls games but he acted like a homer and that doesn't float even the olympics aren't that bad, in terms of homerism
it's funny how someone comes up with a stupid monicur (sp?) for whatever and then everyone statrs saying it (ie: homer, homerism). come up with your own word, dumbass.
Sorry, but by your own standards "dumbass" is hardly an original insult. In fact, your post is rife with words people have used before. Please post again using words that no one has ever heard before.
This pretty much betrays a complete and total ignorance of the purpose of language. "Homer", as used by jmeissen0, has been around for years and years and years. I'll leave it to someone else to provide the etymology, but I heard it when I was a kid, which was more years ago than I care to remember.
This is nuts. There's no comparison between domestic championships where fans of both teams will be watching and the World Cup where the only audience of the American broadcast is the United States. The American announcers are under no obligation to be impartial when the US is playing. The problem with American Olympic coverage is that other nations are largely ignored. Every World Cup game was shown on the ESPN networks. I don't like Jack Edwards (although he was remarkably more palatable on Fox Sports Net), but his so-called homerism is not the problem.
Perhaps Edwards would made a good radio announcer. He talks all the time describing every little detail which is bad when on t.v. but good when on the radio.
My biggest compliant about the Jack and Ty combination is that there ends up be very little play-by-play announcing. My personal preference is to hear the name of each player as the touch the ball with insightful nuggets of commentary interspersed and longer stories saved for dead ball situations. With Jack and Ty there are too many times they are going on and on about something other than what is happening on the field at the moment.
Well all of the events you mention are televised nationally by network anchors, who are supposed to be impartial. Which is why there are no good TV announcers for the NFL. No one has an emotional stake in the games. The US matches were being called by an American, who is bound to be partial. I don't have a problem with that. I have a problem with his style, his metaphors, his puns, and his voice. He doesn't have the voice for play-by-play. Remember how he called goals? Yikes.
I have absolutely no problem with Jack Edwards. As long as the guy loves soccer and puts his efforts in promoting soccer here, he's OK with me...While there are so many soccer haters or bashers out there, having someone like him is a plus, not a minus...God bless him and hoping he'll be back soon.
I don't question JE's character or his desire to see soccer succeed; there's no doubt in my mind that he's fighting for soccer as hard as or harder than anyone else at ESPN. My problem with him is that in terms of broadcasting skill, especially when it comes to soccer, ESPN can do better, and has no excuse for not placing the best possible product in the booth.
>>Originally posted by kennytt I have absolutely no problem with Jack Edwards. As long as the guy loves soccer and puts his efforts in promoting soccer here, he's OK with me...While there are so many soccer haters or bashers out there, having someone like him is a plus, not a minus...God bless him and hoping he'll be back soon.<< Although I am biased (I have known Ty for years and have met Jack on several occasions), I think they are a pretty damn good team for MLS. They're enthusiastic and both care about the game. I sure as hell would rather listen to them than that fat turd Phil "lets scream MLS is HERE! 50 times during the league's opening game" Schoen, the "holier than though" Seamus Malin, Eric "Make Sure My Hair is in Place" Wynalda or Giorgio "Mumbles" Chinaglia. Although I'd love to see the last two argue on a studio show again, then decide to pound the piss out of each other. Who'd win? Who cares!
What we know is that the people who run ESPN are putzes. I thought Jsck was fine but I don't like Ty in the booth. Instead of getting rid of Jack, ESPN should start showing 2 nationally televised MLS matches a week and have him broadcasting one and JPD the other. They really need to find good american color analysts.
We're just waiting for guys like Lalas and Wynalda and Harkes to retire -- they don't quite want to give up the grass under their feet just yet, and who can blame them? I've said it before and I'll say it again: Someday Alexi Lalas will be regarded as the John Madden of American soccer.