There are no competent broadcasters working in sports media today, at least if the Internet is to be believed.
Joe Buck? A pompous windbag. Jim Nantz? A simpering suit. Jon Gruden? An insufferable sycophant. And the worst part is, none of them Know the Game the way you Know the Game.
This article is about some of those broadcasters. And yet, I’ve come today not to bury Caeser, but to praise him. For the most part, anyway.
I think a lot of them get a bad rap. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I feel bad for them—after all, it’s a pretty decent gig. But I do think they make for something of an overeasy target.
Mike Goldberg and Joe Rogan, the cornerstone announcers of the UFC, are no exception. As you may be aware, MMA and UFC opinions run rather hot on the web, where discussion board warriors grow strong and thick on a diet of Goldie blood and Fedor Emelianenko memories.
I lost my train of thought. Right, so Goldberg and Rogan are wacky, maybe a little sloppy, perhaps a little stilted in one way or another. Maybe they don’t Know the Game the way you do. But by and large, I think they’re pretty good, and getting better.
Regardless, it looks like Joe and Mike are the UFC’s A team for the foreseeable future. So how do they stack up against a cross-section of the nation’s most visible sports broadcasting talent?