Men who announce football games are, on the whole, retarded. I'm not saying it's an easy job, but after 15 years of watching sports, I know I couldn't hit a baseball or a receiver in stride, but I do feel confident that I could jump into the broadcast booth for Fox and be a sufficient color guy.
Anyway, if you watch enough, you begin to notice that even the best crews only have so much to say. There often isn't actually anything interesting to say, but they are getting paid to speak, so they do. In this case, what we like to call a 'Gardocki' comes into play. One of the most trumpeted stats over the past few years was Chris Gardocki's unblocked punt streak. Every time he did punt, without fail, at least one guy would tell us what number it was, or when Gardocki had entered the league, or some other bull that doesn't really matter. Almost every player has something 'interesting' about them that needs to be brought up once a week. We keep a running tab of the good ones at the house, so we'll post them at our leisure. After all, we do have lives... sort of. R
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