Women on the Sideline

Last night, I tuned in to watch the Cotton Bowl on Fox.  I did not  have a favorite team in the Texas A&M vs Oklahoma contest, I just like to watch top college teams play football.  Many of them will be future pro players, and it is fun to watch them while they are still playing for the fun and glory of the game, and not a big paycheck.

I have previously commented on my feeling that most of the women sideline announcers are annoying.  The announcer babes nearly always ask some dumb-assed question.

Last night the chick asks the coach "How did you prepare for this game..?"  A typical vapid question.  Almost as pithy as "How great is it to be in the Cotton Bowl?"   

The problem was that the teams were lined-up for the kickoff.  The viewers never got to see it.  Not even a replay.  The guys in the booth are stunned into silence.  It was reminiscent of a high school presentation on local access TV, except the sound was better.

Check out the video [here]  to see what I mean.  The sideline announcer chick is clueless that the game has started -- and so, apparently, is the FOX control room director.   After that shaky start, , the guys in the booth yakked mindlessly, and at times idiotically.  They never mentioned the snafu, apparently assuming that most of the audience was in the bathroom when the game started.  

The actual game was pretty interesting for the first half.  Both teams use "hurry-up" offense so there was a minimum of huddling and standing around and quite a bit of action.  At the Half, Texas was leading by only one point.    As usual, viewers were inundated by ads ever time there was a break in the action. During one of these commercial breaks, I tuned into another show, and watched it until it had a commercial, then switched back to the game. This is how I spent the next hour or so, switching the channel at every commercial interruption.

I stopped watching the game in the 4th quarter when Texas had more than 40 points to Oklahoma's 13.  The Heisman Trophy winner, Johnny Manziel played a great game for Texas.  We are sure to see more of him in the NFL in coming years.

Cheerleaders -The only chicks we want to see on the sidelines :-)

For the record, the only women I want to see or hear when I'm watching football are the half-naked cheerleaders.

In fact, I am really not interested in ANY interviews with athletes or coaches.  We typically get zero useful or interesting information  into anything from such dialogue.  It's like watching interviews with politicians - you never get the honest truth.