SpxGrunt
Apr 21st 2008, 07:59 AM
According to Phil Mushnick in the Post:
There are NFL execs who still cannot believe that Bryant Gumbel was hired to be the play-by-play voice of the start-up NFL Network to begin with.
Not only did Gumbel, who recently resigned, have no football play-by-play experience it showed we're told that NFLN was paying him roughly $1 million a year to call eight games. That's roughly $125,000 a game. That's roughly crazy.
On the other hand, if you consider he had no experience, he wasn't as bad as he was expensive.
Fifty years later, TV people still think sports fans tune to games to hear announcers. Announcers can enhance the telecast or they can drive viewers to distraction, but they can't make anyone, outside of their immediate families, watch.
There are NFL execs who still cannot believe that Bryant Gumbel was hired to be the play-by-play voice of the start-up NFL Network to begin with.
Not only did Gumbel, who recently resigned, have no football play-by-play experience it showed we're told that NFLN was paying him roughly $1 million a year to call eight games. That's roughly $125,000 a game. That's roughly crazy.
On the other hand, if you consider he had no experience, he wasn't as bad as he was expensive.
Fifty years later, TV people still think sports fans tune to games to hear announcers. Announcers can enhance the telecast or they can drive viewers to distraction, but they can't make anyone, outside of their immediate families, watch.