Preseason announcers

[cymatica]

The female voice is not a good fit for NFL announcers. It just doesn't work.

 

[bileever]

The female voice is not a good fit for NFL announcers. It just doesn't work.

I have to respectfully disagree. It's not about the gender. If you don't like her, that's fine, but don't say women can't do the job. There's nothing inherently masculine about being an announcer.

I live in LA and I had to listen to the Chargers announcers, who were a lot worse.

 

[cymatica]

I have to respectfully disagree. It's not about the gender. If you don't like her, that's fine, but don't say women can't do the job. There's nothing inherently masculine about being an announcer.

I live in LA and I had to listen to the Chargers announcers, who were a lot worse.

I never said women can't do the job. I said the female voice is not a good fit. Doesn't have anything to do with masculinity. Raible is one of the best and has a less masculine sounding voice than many others.

I just don't like female voices announcing my sports games, especially football, it kills the mood.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

 

[flv2]

Many of the female commentators have too much treble in their voice and not enough bass. They have to shriek for volume. It's okay in a box where there isn't background noise, but most sports do have background noise. I'm not questioning their brains or whether they work hard.

 

[AROS]

As a middle-aged man, I've been conditioned to hear male announcers. Female announcers don't have the same feel/tenor/tone to me but it has nothing to do with if I think they are capable of having the ability to be an announcer or not. I am as equal opportunity as you will find. But it's perfectly okay to have your own preference without having to feel like your equality paradigm is being questioned. This PC/Cancel Culture we live in has completely made everyone feel afraid to say anything anymore without fear of some objection by the overly sensitives that permeate our society today.

Meh. Ya don't like a woman announcer? Own it! It's a preference thing, not a "women can't do the same thing a man can" thing.

 

[chris98251]

When a play gets exciting a females' voice gets much more shrill when she is delivering the action, cringy to me, sounds like a pissed off wife voice

Again preference, Keith Jackson, Pete Gross, Steve Raible and many many others Dave Niehaus, had and have a great tone in their voice even in exciting moments.

 

[cymatica]

As a middle-aged man, I've been conditioned to hear male announcers. Female announcers don't have the same feel/tenor/tone to me but it has nothing to do with if I think they are capable of having the ability to be an announcer or not. I am as equal opportunity as you will find. But it's perfectly okay to have your own preference without having to feel like your equality paradigm is being questioned. This PC/Cancel Culture we live in has completely made everyone feel afraid to say anything anymore without fear of some objection by the overly sensitives that permeate our society today.

Meh. Ya don't like a woman announcer? Own it! It's a preference thing, not a "women can't do the same thing a man can" thing.

What he said

 

[CPHawk]

The female voice is not a good fit for NFL announcers. It just doesn't work.

Lots of voices aren’t great fits. Not many Keith Jackson’s RIP anymore.

 

[bileever]

As a middle-aged man, I've been conditioned to hear male announcers. Female announcers don't have the same feel/tenor/tone to me but it has nothing to do with if I think they are capable of having the ability to be an announcer or not. I am as equal opportunity as you will find. But it's perfectly okay to have your own preference without having to feel like your equality paradigm is being questioned. This PC/Cancel Culture we live in has completely made everyone feel afraid to say anything anymore without fear of some objection by the overly sensitives that permeate our society today.

Meh. Ya don't like a woman announcer? Own it! It's a preference thing, not a "women can't do the same thing a man can" thing.

I get that. Football for me is a comfort thing too, and nothing makes me feel more at home than Al Michael's voice.

But--and this has nothing to do with being PC--I think that if we are open to different things, we might find that something we think we don't like is okay after all.

I'm not saying that there is a female Al Michaels out there, but one day, there could be.

On a related note, Mina Kimes is doing the Rams preseason games again. Even though I live in LA, I have yet to watch a Rams preseason game so I can't tell you what she's like a an in-game broadcaster. But I believe she's doing the color, not the play-by-play.

 

[AROS]

Yes I watched the game and recognized her voice before I saw her when they cut to the broadcast booth. I have a major crush on her and I think she’s incredibly intelligent. However, her voice doesn’t translate too well for in-game broadcast. Her tone is too soft and bland in my opinion.

Podcast? You bet. 3 hour color commentator? Not so much.

There is one female I actually don’t mind listening to and I can’t remember her name at the moment but she’s done play-by-play for preseason games.

I don’t care if you are female or male but I am admittedly used to male voices in the broadcast booth. If a woman has the right voice (whatever that sounds like), I’ll be happy to listen to her throughout the course of a game.

 

[MORGULON]

Absolutely ridiculous. Who cares if it's a male or female. Bad announcing is bad announcing.

Yeah , if you speak your mind about not liking her doing the broadcast , you're a misogynist. That's what we've come to as a society. There are many male announcers I'm not fond of , but that's okay I guess .

 

[LeveeBreak]

I think she's done great on the TV broadcast. I like Mike Rob also. Bennett is fun but I'm not sure even he knows what he's saying sometimes.

when MRob said “Michael, who are you to criticize a d lineman for being offsides. You were offsides every play “.

Bennet said ”We’re looking to the future and not the past “.

Cracked me up.

 

[Cyrus12]

The play by play lady was terrible ..hope to never get her on a game again...Tony Romo the same..big no thanks and has nothing to do with gender. They both are horrible to listen to.

 

[Cyrus12]

Nice to see Santaclarahawk back again!

 

[Cyrus12]

Oh wait this thread is from a year ago..nevermind..

 

[flv2]

I get that. Football for me is a comfort thing too, and nothing makes me feel more at home than Al Michael's voice.

But--and this has nothing to do with being PC--I think that if we are open to different things, we might find that something we think we don't like is okay after all.

I'm not saying that there is a female Al Michaels out there, but one day, there could be.

On a related note, Mina Kimes is doing the Rams preseason games again. Even though I live in LA, I have yet to watch a Rams preseason game so I can't tell you what she's like a an in-game broadcaster. But I believe she's doing the color, not the play-by-play.

As a Rams fan i'd rather not have her on the commentating team. It's not that she's not capable or doesn't know her stuff. There's an 'I don't want to watch the Rams, I want to be somewhere else, I don't care' vibe to her. If there's a big play there's a 'yeah, whatever' feel to the background information she provides.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Still not that important. Meh