Dec
25
Nominees For 5th Annual Fang’s Bites NFL TV Awards
After Week 17, I’ll hand out the winners of the 5th Annual Fang’s Bites Awards. Usually, I just list those who won plus the honorable mentions. You never see the candidates whom I think are eligible each year. Well, it’s time to change that.
Here are the nominees in each category.
Best Play-by-Play: Marv Albert, CBS; Ian Eagle, CBS; Al Michaels, NBC; Brad Nessler, NFL Network; Sam Rosen, Fox; Mike Tirico, ESPN.
Best Game Analyst: Brian Billick, Fox; Cris Collinsworth, NBC; Dan Fouts, CBS; Mike Mayock, NFL Network; Phil Simms, CBS
Best Sunday Morning Pre-Game Show: Fox NFL Sunday, Fox; NFL GameDay Morning, NFL Network; The NFL Today, CBS
Best Studio Show, Daily or Weekly: Inside the NFL, Showtime; NFL Live, ESPN; NFL Matchup, ESPN; NFL Total Access, NFL Network; Playbook, NFL Network
Best Highlights: NFL GameDay Final, NFL Network; NFL Primetime, ESPN; SportsCenter 7:30 p.m. Sunday, ESPN
Best Studio Host: James Brown, CBS/Showtime; Curt Menefee, Fox; Dan Patrick, NBC; Andrew Siciliano, DirecTV
Best Studio Analyst: Bill Cowher, CBS; Tony Dungy, NBC; Marshall Faulk, NFL Network; Howie Long, Fox; Steve Mariucci, NFL Network; Michael Strahan, Fox
Most Valuable Network: Fox, NBC, NFL Network
Best NFL Insider: John Clayton, ESPN; Mike Florio, NBC, Jay Glazer, Fox, Jason La Canfora, NFL Network; Adam Schefter, ESPN
Best Announcing Team: Marv Albert/Rich Gannon, CBS; Ian Eagle/Dan Fouts, CBS; Al Michaels/Cris Collinsworth, NBC; Jim Nantz/Phil Simms, CBS; Brad Nessler/Mike Mayock, NFL Network; Sam Rosen/Brian Billick, Fox;
Most Improved Presentation: Inside the NFL, Showtime; Thursday Night Football, NFL Network
Best Game Coverage: Monday Night Football, ESPN; NFL on Fox, Fox; Sunday Night Football, NBC; Thursday Night Football, NFL Network
Rookie of the Year: Jaime Maggio, Fox; Chad Pennington, Fox; NFL Turning Point, Versus
Best Return to the NFL: Marv Albert, CBS; Melissa Stark, NFL Network;
Best Move: Debut of NFL Turning Point, Versus; NFL Signing Long-Term TV Contracts with CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC; Replacing Matt Millen and Joe Theismann with Mike Mayock, NFL Network;
Worst Play-by-Play: Thom Brennaman, Fox; Joe Buck, Fox; Bill Macatee, CBS; Ron Pitts, Fox; Dick Stockton, Fox
Worst Game Analyst: Steve Beuerlein, CBS; Randy Cross, CBS; Jim Mora, Jr., formerly Fox
Worst Studio Host: Chris Berman, ESPN; Stuart Scott, ESPN
Worst Studio Analyst: Tedy Bruschi, ESPN; Cris Carter, ESPN; Michael Irvin, NFL Network; Eric Mangini, ESPN; Shannon Sharpe, CBS
Worst Studio Show: Monday Night Countdown, ESPN; NFL 32, ESPN; Sunday NFL Countdown, ESPN
Worst Move: Bob Costas’ Halftime Commentary on Sunday Night Football, NBC; Removing Rich Eisen from NFL Total Access; Putting Michael Irvin on Thursday Night Football Pregame, NFL Network
If you have any nominations of your own, feel free to add them in the comments.
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I'd throw in Strahan in worst studio analyst to be honest, adds nothing insightful just plays off everyone else.
not a lot of love for CBS. I think CBS has the deepest lineup and the best studio show.
But I'd like to hear your reasons for nominating FOX, NBC, and NFL Network as "Most Valuable Network" and the reasons why ESPN and CBS were not included.
Both ESPN\’s and CBS\’ ratings were down this season. I felt both networks had down years.
While NBC\’s was also down, they added value and games to the SNF package.
Fox and NFL Network were the only networks that saw their ratings go up this season. Plus NFL Network greatly improved its Thursday Night Football presentation this season.
After Saturday's Patriots-Dolphins call, I feel like you could add Dan Fouts to the "Worst Game Analyst" mix. He didn't add anything to the broadcast and what he did contribute bordered on the just plain silly. But maybe I was just catching the bad points while switching back and forth between that game and NFL Red Zone.
Aikman should have been included as worst game analyst. A more boring, meaningless, dry, and just plain uninformative analyst we do not get deluged with on a weekly basis. Aikman would far better serve the American football viewer by becoming exclusively a fulltime sheepherder in rural Oklahoma. Listening to Aikman is worse than watching manure dry in the ceaselessly hot Oklahoma sun.
Anything ESPN is bad. Other than Tirico, I cant stand anyone else on that network. Just awful. If you agree you can email Al Jaffe himself.
Forgot to add Tony Siragusa is the worst sideline reporter I've ever seen. Would like to nominate Tony Sira-douchebag please.
I like the energy that Michael Irvin brings to the NFL Network. He does a good job on Gameday Morning…I think Dan Dierdorf is the worst Analyst on game broadcasts. And I think commenter "Mike" is way off about Aikman, he is very knowledgable on his broadcasts.
"Aikman should have been included as worst game analyst." Couldn't agree more, Mike. Absolutely the most monotone and boring analyst on television.
However, I was very glad to see Cris Carter mentioned. He was one of the worst Yahoo analyst – always the least correct in guessing the outcome of weekly games.
is there any way to compute ratings with a factor of when the viewer turns down the sound on the TV and listens to the radio broadcast? that has to count against the broadcast somehow. Most of the NFL games on my TV on Sunday afternoons involve the 2 NY teams…Jets games, I usually like listening to the broadcast teams calling their games on CBS, and Giants games, I usually like listening to the radio broadcast team when their game is on FOX. I can't say I've watched many games aside from my local teams.
Listening to Shannon Sharpe is like watching an "Amos and Andy" show. He makes Michael Irvin and Deon Saners fsound like Sir Lawrence Olivier.