Braindead sports announcers are an insult to sports fans
Television One News, Saturday 20 June 2015
If you thought that sports commentary could only improve following the enforced departure of Martin “Moron” Devlin and the long overdue retirement of Murray “The Screaming Skull” Deaker, you were wrong. Devlin and Deaker are unpleasant memories, thankfully, but their legacy of shoddiness and rank stupidity has continued.
On TV One News tonight, Jenny-May Coffin burbled that she was looking forward to “the footy in Dunners tonight.” What she meant to say, of course, was “the football in Dunedin tonight.”
The other morning, Paul Henry’s beleaguered and harried sports jock Jim Kayes was similarly tongue-tied, using the puerile term “footy” when previewing (inexpertly) the same match. Prime’s gruesome and unfunny twosome of Mark Richardson and Andrew Mulligan also seem unable or afraid to pronounce the word “football”, as does their co-host Hayley Holt. Over on NewstalkZB, the physically fit but irretrievably dim triathlete Mark Watson and that renowned exponent of footwork, Tony Veitch, repeatedly employ the puerilism, as doesKathryn Ryan on National Radio.
I know that the sports department is the shallow end of the gene pool, but the stupidity and/or timidity of New Zealand sports-casters seems to be almost limitless.
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While Jenny-May Coffin may be too dumb to pronounce the word “football”, she does have some talent; she’s an absolute champion when it comes to doing push-ups…..
http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/jenny-may-coffin-s-handstand-push-up-video-4831975
http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/jenny-may-coffin-s-handstand-push-up-video-4831975
