predictions Archives - Awful Announcing

Local Networks

White Sox analyst Steve Stone says he’s psychic, and Jason Benetti confirms Stone has predicted plays “a couple dozen times”

"He’s got a lot of occult in him. I’m weirded out by it, but I also kind of adore it. Of all the people I’ve met, I would say he’s the most likely to be psychic."

CBS

Tony Romo says play predictions were “something I wasn’t supposed to do”

"It didn’t feel like, ‘I’m going to predict the play here.’ It felt like you were talking about the game that you were seeing and you’re trying to let the viewer know something that could be neat to look out for."

Local Networks

Buffalo radio producer and host Ryan Gates lives up to his promise to quit if the Bills drafted Josh Allen

"I'll quit if they draft Allen with Rosen or Mayfield on the board." Well, they did, so he did.

Soccer

UBS runs 10,000 World Cup simulations including Italy for some reason, Bloomberg writes about it

This UBS report was...not impressive. But that didn't stop Bloomberg from covering it.

NBA

ESPN’s analysts all picked the Trail Blazers over the Pelicans, and the Pelicans called them out on Twitter after completing the sweep

All 22 ESPN analysts surveyed picked Portland, and the Pelicans remembered.

CBS

CBS analyst Gary Danielson predicted jump pass TD, deep pass, challenges Tony Romo

Danielson did a nice job of calling this play in advance.

2016

Terry Bradshaw picks a lock and a upset that play each other

Pre-game predictions sometimes lead to some funny moments, especially with a “lock,” and the NFL on Fox certainly...