The Caps better shut the Flyers out for remainder of the series because if I have to hear one more contrived Tastycakes** ad shoved into a goal celebration I'm going to kick the nearest Flyers fan square in the jimmies.
I hate Yankees broadcasts and Redskins broadcasts are only slightly less painful because of the crass nature of the commercialism displayed. Everything is sponsored, everything is for sale, sometimes by multiple sponsors. I've even heard of sponsored events being sponsored ("The Ford Post-Game Show, brought to you by Lowes").
I'm not dull to the realities of today's sports environment. Its a high dollar big business, and that means corporations and advertisements. While in a perfect world I could avoid those things, I understand that its the nature of the beast and one of the prices to pay when you sign up as a fan. What I object to is the crassness of it. Advertising has its place, and that place is not directly after a home run, a touchdown, or a goal. At that moment of excitement, when the game has you most in its grip, that is the time when it seems the most inappropriate, the most painful to my ear.
This is why the Flyers TV broadcasters make me sick. On the whole they do a good job of calling the game. OK, their big homers, but effectively they're paid by the team, so what do you expect? But, after each goal, and I mean seconds after it is scored, the lead broadcaster announces that whomever just scored, "scored for a case of tastycakes." Um, no he didn't. He scored to in effort to win the game. So beyond factually inaccurate and simply irritating in its repetitiveness, its tactless, stupid, and inane.
Even some (and possibly more than some) Flyers fans are sick of this too. The Yankees and Redskins are too far down this road to turn back, but it would be nice if, in a nod to a little big of dignity, the Flyers broadcast would cut it out with this Tastycakes bullshit.
**For some reason Blogger's spellcheck wants to replace "Tastycakes" with "Testicles." This, to me, is funny.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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I know you're not a basketball guy, but I've been driven nuts for years by the washed up homer that is Gary Bender (yes, THAT Gary Bender) calling Phoenix Suns home games. After EVERY three-pointer they make, before the ball is even inbounded, Bender goes "And there's another $100 for Phoenix Sns charities!" I actually even hear it in my brain before he even says it, it's so damned Pavlovian.
And now that I think of it, the Suns radio guy says "SHAZAM!" every time the Suns drain a three. But since I can't see the game, I don't know if a three has gone in until I hear him scream it at me. So I don't drool unconsciously.
I agree it's crass and painful to hear. However, it's "Tastykakes" -- it's a proper name and they can misspell it however they want. I'm gonna type that into Word and see if it suggests "testikles".
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