Worst Sports Announcers
Joe Buck is the worst play-by-play man - actually, the worst announcer overall - on TV. He is smug, arrogant, and acts like the final authority on all things sports-related. He is extremely dull and boring. He has no passion for sports, and the greatest play in history could be unfolding, yet Buck would call it just like an average play.
He manages to be both boring and disinterested while also being biased and imposing his opinions all the time. Joe Buck is a hack who got to where he is because of his dad, and he needs to be fired. Listening to a robot would be better than Buck.
Troy Kenneth Aikman is a former American football quarterback who played for the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League. Worst I've ever heard. Truly. How can someone with so much experience have so little to say? We have to turn off the sound whenever he comments. He says nothing but the obvious.
What an embarrassment. He has no analytical ability whatsoever. The rest of the announcing world must shake their heads in disbelief at his inane comments. Even Joe Buck seems embarrassed by the things he says. He makes Joe Buck look bad.
Wake up, Joe, and demand someone new. Nantz got tired of Simms and dumped him. It's your turn! Please save us from this shrill no-talent.
Overhypes everything and talks up some obvious point he's making as though he's telling you some inside secret that you didn't already know.
It's like your creepy old uncle had a love child with your annoying cousin. Truly an abomination.
The worst announcer of all time.
It's impossible to follow the play when Ian does football. The last thing he says, when describing a play, is what yard line the play is at - sometimes he doesn't even mention it! Maddening!
"Prescott back to pass. It's complete. Receiver avoids a tackle, spins to the right and is finally taken down. Great run after the catch... to the 40-yard line."
Please keep your New Jersey heritage to yourself when providing commentary on CBS NFL games. You embarrassed the network and yourself in the New England vs. KC game on Saturday night.
You should at least seem impartial in a nationally televised game.
Inane comments are the standard of the day. He somehow tends to work his "great" career in Cincinnati 40 years ago into his comments. How does this man stay employed?
You gotta do the math here, says to Al as the game is so clearly over with two possessions down.
Grating voice... says several really stupid things (Holy Cow!) every game.
Can't STAND listening to him, regardless of which team he's swooning over (even my own favorite team!). He sounds like he needs to work in big-time wrestling, not college football.
Gus is insufferable as an announcer. He always comes across as a hometown announcer for one of the teams. Turn on highlights of any Ohio State game he's ever done, for example, and you'll see how over-the-top excited he gets for them. It's sickening.
I'm always perplexed by people who like him. My guess is they're fans of Alabama, Ohio State, or some other team he fanboys over. If he's doing that for your team, it might be tolerable. But if you're a fan of the other team or neutral, just watching two teams you're impartial to, it's unbearable. He's worse than Buck.
Worst announcer in all of sports.
He has to be the most boring and monotone person ever. I've been a Sox fan since I was a kid, but I listen to Cubs games because I hate this guy so much. He constantly compliments the opposing team and never really seems to care about the Sox.
I have officially stopped being a Sox fan and now root only for the Cubs. Thanks, Ed... jerk.
Ed Farmer is a self-important windbag who sucks what little fun there is out of every single White Sox game he announces. I want to listen but find myself turning off the game just to get away from his non-game-related droning.
(And Darrin Jackson doesn't help matters.)
The Newcomers
How can anybody with the name Booger be taken seriously? Constant whining about the Big Ten/Ohio State. SEC is great, okay, but is he capable of talking about any other subject?
Antonio Ramiro Romo is an American football television analyst and former quarterback who played 14 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League.
Menefee is a total hack. Did he even audition? Holy heck, he's the worst commentator of all time. Worse than Madden, Walton, and Buck combined. Unlistenable, unwatchable.
He sucks, and it's a disgrace that Fox has allowed him to cover the US Open.
Between telling the whole world about his bathroom needs and calling Manning the best QB of his generation, he wins the award by acclamation.
Worthless. He shows consistent bias during games, and his voice is annoying. He sounds like he's speaking with food in his mouth. I can't understand half of what he says, and when I do, it's filled with hippie nonsense.
Lay off the peyote, dude.
Who cares about anything he has to say? Never talks about the game. I feel sorry for the co-host. Get him off the air! I can't watch Pac-12 anymore.
Everyone I know turns off the sound when Walton is announcing.
Jonathan William Coachman, also known as "The Coach", is a sports interviewer who works for ESPN who currently interviews WWE personnel. It's bad if WWE doesn't want you, because they are as low as you can go in sports.
Never talks about the current game. Too much effort to prepare. Just turned off the audio on ESPN for the Purdue-Notre Dame game to listen to the radio. Maybe I can find out who commits a foul. Terrible.
Dick knows his basketball, but he talks too much. Half the time, I can't understand what he's saying because he has worn out the old voice box.
Never stops his motor mouth! Too opinionated! His voice grates on nerves!
Nothing needs to be said about him. Obnoxious.
Macatee is a wooden drone. Knows NOTHING! If the goal is to make an otherwise exciting event absolutely lackluster, he's your guy. He's an embarrassment to the sportscasting world and a disgrace to the booth.
Why does CBS insist on putting this guy on for the big matches? He knows little about the game, and his style is totally nondescript. No personality at all.
No business doing UFC events. Please get someone else.
Dennis Miller is an American stand-up comedian, talk show host, political commentator, sports commentator, actor, television personality, and radio personality. Thinks he's the smartest in the room. If you were, you'd realize to stop talking.
By far the worst announcer of all time. Never understood how this guy ever got a job in TV. A Cosell wannabe with no talent, like that crazy uncle who just makes strange noises and changes his voice as if it's so creative.
He's annoying to listen to while broadcasting any sport, especially when he's at the Masters.
Eat cake, he was the best QB. He was even a better speller than you.
No one can ruin a great game better than Mike Emrick. I am interested in the play, not how many adjectives he can spew. I am amazed that someone who has been around the game for 40-plus years can know so little.
His bias for East Coast teams is also incredibly annoying.
What the hell is he talking about?
This one has an elitist mentality and believes he can skate through any issue with his debating skills. His analysis may sound well thought out initially, but once you start following him, you will realize that more often than not, they are troll attempts.
He constantly puts down people debating him, as if he is still in high school, either verbally or non-verbally with his ever-present smug smile.