Ranking NFL Announcers

[shelbypanther]

Hate to say it, but Mick and Eugene are tough to listen to.  Really class guys if you ever get to meet them though.

[PghPanther]

Many play by play guys are a subjective preference to the listener but to me in regards to the ex-athletes in the role of color commentator........

 

Dan Fouts, Moose Johnson and John Lynch in that order......are heads and shoulders above the rest of them.

[kornicova]

I like mayock collinsworth and billick are the best in no particular order. They are the smartest by a long way

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[Sapper]

But where's Torry Holt??

[Judo Thoreau]

Can't stand Dick Stockton. It's like visiting a retirement home and getting play-by-play from the residents. He's painfully slow on the uptake.

[SZ James (banned)]

I've had a massive brain fart, who is the college announcer, I think his name is Gus, that screams all the damned time?  Talk about migraine producing....

  

Hate to say it, but Mick and Eugene are tough to listen to..

[frash.exe]

Oh that nonsensical troy aikman

Joe Buck/Troy Aikman: 29

It came as no shock that Buck is one of the best in the business, with a paltry three infractions over two games. But only 26 infractions for Aikman?! The fact that Aikman had a below-average number of infractions was the biggest surprise of the entire experiment.

My theory is that what makes Aikman such an insufferable voice is two-fold: He's assigned to the very best games Fox carries despite providing no actual insight, and he has a bad tendency to simply re-state what the entire country has just witnessed. While maddening, it didn't fall into any of the categories of this experiment. He's rarely wrong and rarely says something totally ridiculous.

Still, Aikman can be prone to gaffes. He forgets players' names ("I'm thinking of the punishment of ... uh, who am I thinking about here …? Dez Bryant.") and has a legendary capacity for unnecessarily doubling sentence lengths ("Hard to complain about getting the ball and those types of things when you don't make those types of plays;" "If the defense can hold here on third down and not give up any points, I mean that would be a great possession for them in keeping this short of the Cowboys having to get a touchdown.") or offering circular explanations ("Eventually, he's going to break one like he just did."; "The way that they've been able to run the football the way they have."). The most exemplary instance of the Aikman vernacular was when he began a sentence with the phrase "Yeah no I mean hey." Five words of complete and total uselessness.

[frash.exe]

Oh one thing I would like to to know is if there was a power level for this as some cliches are tirelessly and obnoxiously parroted over and over again

Did it count ten times if an announcer uttered "ball control", "smash-mouth" or "defense wins championships"? Because it would in my book.