The 2023 Awfulies: The best announcers of the year
Awful Announcing honors the best play-by-play announcer and game analyst of 2023 as part of our year-end awards.
Awful Announcing honors the best play-by-play announcer and game analyst of 2023 as part of our year-end awards.
Dean Blandino's transition shows rules experts' crucial, often invisible, role in crafting precise NFL analysis.
"Obviously, this is a city that I love, this is a team that I played the bulk of my career for."
"That was always for the booth!"
"It looked like he sliced up a couch with a butcher's knife and then just draped it on his shoulders like a cape."
"I thought we had fun and didn’t overdo it."
"Kelce's just like a dude."
“Well, it looks like Taylor Swift picked a good day to come here to Arrowhead."
"Guy gets a sack, you go, 'Sack you very much!'"
Inside the NFL is by ESPN’s Ryan Clark, who is joined by analyst Channing Crowder, Jay Cutler, Chad Johnson and Chris Long.
While Tom Brady has pushed his Fox debut to 2024, he's reiterated that broadcasting remains in his plans.
"‘Holy ****, dude, we gotta get on the field.’"
The NFL on Fox broadcaster lineup for 2023 has arrived.
"There’s so many things in NFL football that look like penises."
"...These are arranged marriages. You don’t get to choose who you work with."
"Was it weird? A little bit. Because I think it’s only human nature to go, ‘Nobody can survive if the great Joe Buck isn’t there.’ But everything moves on."
"All of that build-up and all of that lead-up was very similar to when I was a player, and then it is over."
In their first Super Bowl assignment, Burkhardt and Olsen were on top of their game for Super Bowl LVII.
TV and radio calls of the Kansas City Super Bowl title from Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen on Fox, Mitch Holthus on Chiefs radio, and Kevin Harlan on Westwood One radio.
"Greg Olsen is head and shoulders better than any other FB analyst right now."
“If you could design from scratch, somebody coming off the field to the broadcast booth, you would give them so many characteristics that we see in Greg every day."
"There's a lot that's going on. It’s not that it isn't fun and great, it’s just that it limits your time to prep like you normally do."