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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 02:33 PM Sep 2014

Broncos fans start petition to ban CBS' Phil Simms from Broncos broadcasts

It's gotten that bad.

Denver Broncos fans have dealt with the perceived bias of CBS analyst Phil Simms for years. I've always tolerated it - fans often claim an analyst or ref is biased, and being an objective color commentator is difficult when you're rooting for close games.

But now that Denver has Peyton Manning, and the Broncos are ratings juggernauts, CBS has decided to make them their afternoon game featuring their #1 crew of Jim Nantz and Simms virtually every week. It's all Simms, all the time.

And it's torture for Broncos fans.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/broncos-fans-start-petition-ban-163030222.html

Whiny little so-and-so's...

Is this El Supremo's idea????

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Broncos fans start petition to ban CBS' Phil Simms from Broncos broadcasts (Original Post) joeybee12 Sep 2014 OP
I'm glad we, I mean the Broncos, have Simms and Jim Nantz almost every game. El Supremo Sep 2014 #1
Personally, when you're winning and you have a commentator rooting against you hughee99 Sep 2014 #2
Broncos fans sure have Jamaal510 Sep 2014 #3

El Supremo

(20,365 posts)
1. I'm glad we, I mean the Broncos, have Simms and Jim Nantz almost every game.
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 03:11 PM
Sep 2014

They are the best next to Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
2. Personally, when you're winning and you have a commentator rooting against you
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 04:59 PM
Sep 2014

I think it makes it more fun. I always enjoyed listening to Tim McCarver start hyping up Mariano Rivera in the 3rd inning when the Yankees were up by a run or two, and just beside himself when the Red Sox were able to put up a few runs on him in the 9th.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
3. Broncos fans sure have
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 09:08 PM
Sep 2014

it good to be able to worry about who is announcing over their games instead of the actual game itself. Being someone who is neither a fan of the team nor from the Colorado area, I don't know about his bias, but in general, I don't care about sports analyses much. I only watch the game, and I would even be satisfied with just a stadium P.A. or silence instead of somebody talking virtually 100% of the time while the game is on. I don't need somebody to basically tell me what I already heard or saw.

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