I heard two stats during the Seahawks/Saints game that, to me, screamed that the stats-making community is scraping the barrel's bottom: 1) It was the first time in NFL history a player was cut by a team mid-season and then scored a playoff touchdown against them that same season, 2) It was the first time in NFL history a defending Super Bowl champion lost a playoff game after leading by 10 points. Now, I'm sure to some of the stat-philes out there, factoids like this are like a needle in the vein. But after 50 seasons, continuing to invent new "League Firsts" is going to get harder and harder. Case in point.
Could not agree with you more. The over-analysis, constant blabbing, need to color each play/player/team/ ad nauseum. Maybe sometime we could simply enjoy relative silence without the requisit playbyplay + color dude obligatory pitter patter? Maybe hear the crowd, the player's grunts, some time to personally digest and enjoy the game? When we were kids = pass is intercepted. Now it's "a pick." The "red zone." B.S. In hockey - it's not the crease anymore. Ohhhhh no. It's "the paint." The boards? Noooo, it's got it's own cutesy name now. "The wall." Gag me with over-analysis and every sports wannabe yakker wanting to coin the newest slang descriptive phrase. Puke. Rant over. Thanks. I feel better!
I agree 100%. In the college games I covered, they guys doing the 'color' in the booth - had earpieces plugged in and had no less than THREE people constantly chatting statistics and info into said earpieces almost all of the time, usually an assistant sports information director from both schools playing, and an at-large person, sometimes two. 'He's a lifetime 74% passer on opening drives going east on turf in a dome, but only 69.3% going west outdoors on real grass'. Crap like that. Some guys like Jaworski KNOW the game, but the guys that rattle off the stupid statistics - they don't know ****, it's someone else feeding them info.
