re: What's wrong with Eli Gold?

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Use your fricking imagination to know what's happening; every little goddamn detail shouldn't have to be explained to you. You motherfrickers that complain about this shite must not have frickall else to do with your lives.



I don't want every little detail. I don't want to hear 14 different adjectives describing how Mac threw a ball, or how Najee ran the ball.

What I DO want is to know what happened during the play, and what the result of the play is. Eli is not very good at that. Again, if you're watching the game, it's fine; but if you're depending on him to describe the action in a way that lets you know what's happening, you're likely to be frustrated.

I have heard Eli make calls which INDICATE something has happened, but he doesn't TELL me what happened. For example:

"Handoff to Harris, bounces it outside, he's in a footrace, to the 20, to the 10, to the five, dragging defenders ... What a run by Najee Harris!" And it's not until we hear him say "First and goal at the three" or "Reichard lining up for the extra point" that we know if Najee actually scored.

Or:

"First and 10 at the 25, handoff to Robinson, HUGE HOLE! He LUNGES forward before being brought down by a host of defenders. Hard run by Brian Robinson.

"Second down, and Mac swings a pass out to the flat ... he was looking for Waddle, but it's batted down by the defense.

"Third and nine, now, from the Bama 28 ..."

Do you see the issue?

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Yes I do. You're used to seeing every detail on TV and he's not giving every detail fast enough. If we score, he says TOUCHDOWN ALABAMA so in your example, you know Najee was down at the 5 and he comes back to fine tune it. Brother, I can only tell you that what he announces tells me enough of the game and I can imagine/figure out the rest. My simple joy in life is on Sunday by pouring over the box score, play-by-play recap and statistics for the games to gleen all the stuff I didn't catch during the game. Don't be so anxious to know everything at once, because once you do, there won't be anything else to know or discover.
As an aside, the next time you go to a game, don't look screen for the down and distance, look at the down and yard markers to know where each team is on the field and how far they have to go for the next down. You'll never be caught looking away from the field when something cool happens.