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Five Worst Announcers in NFL Broadcast Booths: Kornheiser Leads the Way

Dec 19, 2006 – 7:29 PM
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Michael David Smith

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As the NFL season draws to a close, here is the NFL FanHouse list of the five worst announcers in the game:

1. Tony Kornheiser, ESPN: My colleague MJD has said it all. This has been an unmitigated disaster. When he's not genuflecting to James Belushi, he's delivering trite monologues about the importance of having a Super Bowl ring to the career of a quarterback. Kornheiser is good on the radio. He's good on Pardon the Interruption. Send him back there full time, ESPN.

2. Dick Vermeil, NFL Network (laryngitis edition): If you missed Saturday night's Cowboys-Falcons game, it's difficult to describe just how bad Vermeil's voice was. Vermeil is a knowledgeable, likable analyst, but if he can't talk, it's kind of beside the point. They finally put him out of his misery at halftime, but it was absurd that NFL Network put him on the air at all.

3. Tony Siragusa, Fox: I don't get why Siragusa is on the field instead of in the booth. He doesn't handle the typical sideline reporter role, he just kind of pontificates on whatever subject crosses his mind -- only he does it from the field instead of the booth. He feels out of place and rarely offers insight on the one area where he presumably has some expertise, line play.

4. Dan Dierdorf, CBS: Dierdorf seems like a nice enough guy, but he always sounds like he's expressing his opinions because he feels the need to express an opinion -- not because he actually feels strongly about the topic. He also has an annoying habit of always assuming the referee's decision is correct, even when a replay clearly shows otherwise.

5. Dick Enberg, CBS: There was a time when Dick Enberg was a great play-by-play man. That time was 30 years ago. Now he makes numerous mistakes, always seems a little confused, and generally acts like he'd rather tell you about a player's close relationship with his junior high school gym teacher than about what's going on down there on the field.

See also: The five best announcers in NFL broadcast booths.
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