9-13-2010
CBS second-string announcer Solomon Wilcots, narrating the Jaguars-Broncos season opener (9-12-10) as the refs send the players off the field at the start of the fourth quarter because of lightning:
“The NFL is all about the safety of its players.”
Wait...what? The same league that is only now implementing new guidelines on how to deal with concussed players? The league that had to know, well before the public did, that the game was mentally crippling and sometimes killing players? Examples: Oh, I don’t know, just off the top of my head, John Mackey (permanently addled) and Mike Webster (dead). Also, the league’s commissioner and owners are getting ready to force a two-game expansion of the schedule on the players, or at the very least use it as a bargaining chip in upcoming negotiations.
I assume, given the power of the league, that it has veto rights over who the networks employ as announcers and can have them bounced, like the Masters did a few years ago to some not-bland-enough announcer who was insufficiently Jim Nantz-like in his Masters ball-washing. But really, Solomon, I doubt the league requires you to spout obvious bullshit. So stop. Please.
CBS second-string announcer Solomon Wilcots, narrating the Jaguars-Broncos season opener (9-12-10) as the refs send the players off the field at the start of the fourth quarter because of lightning:
“The NFL is all about the safety of its players.”
Wait...what? The same league that is only now implementing new guidelines on how to deal with concussed players? The league that had to know, well before the public did, that the game was mentally crippling and sometimes killing players? Examples: Oh, I don’t know, just off the top of my head, John Mackey (permanently addled) and Mike Webster (dead). Also, the league’s commissioner and owners are getting ready to force a two-game expansion of the schedule on the players, or at the very least use it as a bargaining chip in upcoming negotiations.
I assume, given the power of the league, that it has veto rights over who the networks employ as announcers and can have them bounced, like the Masters did a few years ago to some not-bland-enough announcer who was insufficiently Jim Nantz-like in his Masters ball-washing. But really, Solomon, I doubt the league requires you to spout obvious bullshit. So stop. Please.
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