GameDay trumps NFL shows
I’m never home on Sunday mornings. Always at Lakeside Church of God. There or on the road, trying to get home.
But last Sunday, I flew in from Colorado and got home around 11:15, so I caught the final 45 minutes or so of FOX’s NFL pregame show.
That’s the famous one, with Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long and Jimmy Johnson and Michael Strahan.
And here’s my take: Not nearly as entertaining as ESPN’s GameDay crew.
GameDay will be in Norman on Saturday for the OU-Texas Tech game, and therein lies part of its charm. GameDay’s roving set, usually to the best game of the day, has created a cult following and lures hundreds or thousands of fans to its show.
But even without the live aspect, GameDay is better than NFL Today. The FOX show has too many voices; too much yelling over each other. Too much splitting of the microphone.
Example: Near the end of the show, GameDay goes through a bunch of games for predictions. Each panelist — there’s only three; Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and host Chris Fowler — goes through the game with insight and opinion.
The NFL Today does the same thing, except there are too many voices, and they end up just saying who will end. Which is boring.
I never would make a point to watch the NFL Today. I guess if it’s on sometime, in a hotel room or something, I’d leave it on, but it’s not destination television. GameDay is.
Berry Tramel can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including AM-640 and FM-98.1. You can e-mail him here and follow him on Twitter @BerryTramel.
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Since Texas has the most to gain from an OU victory over Tech, look for the Big 12 to assign Jon Bible and his Austin crew to officiate the game.