Yeah, he started choking there at the end...definitely got tight as the pressure mounted. Surprised to see that out of Rivers.
For old times sake. (language NSFW) <iframe width="480" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3TLG_LtWhj4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> What's funny is this is exactly how I felt last night listening to him call the game. :grin:
It's just so funny that he harps on it for so long...it must suck to get into an argument with him bc it seems like he just drags it out much longer than it needs to be.
He's just terrible in every way. If you want to hear something brutal, listen to him destroy a golf telecast Somehow he has some serious pull to stick around and do whatever he wants at espn
I thought it was silly how Dilfer kept implying that Rivers was an elite QB and they kept harping on our stats against Peyton/Brady/Bress etc. He had a great half, then he wilted like the delicate mental flower he is when his nuts were on the dresser. The guy can't handle pressure. Also equally annoying was Berman raving about a play when there was a flag on the field...except we didn't know there was a flag until the ref spoke because Berman was too busy yapping about an irrelevant play.
Berman sucks but it has nothing to do with him hating or favoring a team. Berman would've sucked regardless of which teams were playing -- Dilfer I don't mind so much, but again he wasn't favoring or hating one side either.
The one thing that really irked me was Berman making on the air comments about San Diego's stadium situation so that the Super Bowl could return there. Saying things like "C'mon San Diego city council, get your act together and get this done!... the Super Bowl has to be here regularly!!!" He has no clue what the team is demanding, in terms of public monies for a new stadium... just a few years after the old stadium was improved to get a previous Super Bowl. The crappy California economy barely supported Petco Park when it was finally built. If the city doesn't want to go into debt for a facility that it doesn't see a single dime for, the national blowhard commentator shouldn't be using a national TV game to announce his preference for an all-expenses paid week in San Diego in Feburary (vs. Indy, New Orleans, or New Jersey this year). The only thing worse is if he would have said something like "C'mon... we have to go back to Houston in 2017 because this city couldn't get its act together! We love San Diego Super Bowls!!!"
What really irked me, and I'm not sure if it's been mentioned, is the way in which Berman and Dilfer were so pro-Chargers for the first half and pro-Texans the 2nd half. I think Dilfer may have said that the Texans were not a Super Bowl contender in the first quarter and then after the game said that this is what Super Bowl teams do. A little presumptuous eh?
One thing I thought when they showed the numbers against elite QBs was that the Texans went 3-3 against them last year.....
Everytime Dilfer spoke it was like listening to Dan Fouts in the Waterboy just harping on the same damn talking point over and over. He might actually be tolerable as a commentator down the line, but being paired with Berman I think he felt he had to be animated and over the top too.
I'm usually not so sensitive about commentators. For example, I remember last year a lot of people here were upset about Dierdorf (I'm pretty sure), for displaying some favoritism and being pretty firmly "anti-Texans". I didn't really make much of it then, and as I was watching the game I didn't feel like I was hearing the same things everyone else was hearing. But last night, I felt that the commentators were pretty obviously anti-Texans through and through. Every time the Chargers made a great play, it felt like they were jumping out of their seats. Every time the Texans made a play, their reactions were so muted and stunned that you'd think they were Chargers players themselves! I also think a lot of you guys are giving Dilfer a hell of a lot more credit than he deserves. That first half, he was rightfully making a number of very reasonable critiques. At the beginning of the second half I think it was, he started doubting our status as a Super Bowl contender. Even that didn't ruffle my feathers... but when the tide of the game started turning, it was almost as though he wanted the Texans to lose so that he wouldn't have to eat his words. Dilfer then, late in the game, went on to imply that the Texans indeed are a contender, all the while making NO mention of the harsh condemnation he made earlier in the game. It's good to correct yourself, but when you don't even mention the hugely contradictory comment you made earlier, it just sounds like you're flip-flopping in order to not be embarrassed on national television. Nitwits, the both of them. It was like watching a Chargers broadcast.
The only commentary Berman is qualified to give is- -What college did he go to -How many years has he been in the league -dumbass nickname
Berman is a complete idiot. I thought everyone already knew that. He was only doing this game because there were 2 games on that night. As far as the "anti-Texan bias"...come on. Who cares?
You apparently had your TV muted. It was the Raven game, and it wasn't that Dierdorf was "anti-Texan,"* it was that he was so obviously, and utterly unprepared, he couldn't talk about anything beyond the miraculous recovery of Terrell Suggs... in a game in which the Ravens' D gave up 43 points. He pounded that angle so relentlessly, even *Baltimore* people complained. It was embarrassing. And, thanks - you ruined an otherwise great week by reminding me we'll get our fair share of Dierdorf games this year...... (* You could argue that it actually was "anti-Texan" because he very obviously went into the game with Suggs as his top storyline, and when the game very quickly and obviously tilted the Texans' way... he didn't have a Texan angle, very likely meaning he thought the Ravens were going to win and he'd be able to bang the Suggs storyline all day. Yeah, screw him. I'd take 10 Trent Dilfers before Dierdorf.)
