Who doesn't love Chris Berman? I grew up watching him and Tom Jackson. He's a legend as much as anyone out there. He made sports extra exciting. Nobody does that anymore.
I miss them too! 31 years old now and miss them, if for anything, nostalgia. BUT, they were great....they're on ESPN+ though now. I won't be getting it just for that...DirecTV bill is enough of a kick in the teeth... along with Amazon and Netflix PLUS Disney's streaming service coming out soon...geez so many anymore.
He doesn't exactly make clear that he never played in the NFL, and the nickname doesn't help. Otherwise he's great for parking at ESPN and letting the world come to him.
Some people don't like his on-air personality...but he has always been super positive about sports, and celebrating what's good about sports. Now everyone wants to have some "hot take" and trying to tear the althletes down. I respect all the sports-loving anchors. Berman, Stuart Scott, SVP, etc.
Super positive? I suppose, because Berman was NEVER a journalist, and NEVER (or seldom) spoke bad about the NFL, given the fact he was their biggest shill ("Roger Goodell will get this right.")
Recall the early espn days fondly. The highlights were the star of the show back then, but the personalities felt like friends. Berman and the gang were fun .
90s ESPN was probably the golden era, Linda, Keith, Dan, Rece, Rich, Charley, Kenny, the list goes on and on. Nowadays you'd think Malcom X was producing SportsCenter, so terrible and hard to watch.
I know, right? You could watch an hour of Sports Center and get caught up for the day but, now we get to slug through piles of horse-sh*t and still not be informed on what matters.
@@73challenger5031 Sports media is such crap now. Like, if I wanted to listen to people pontificate about political garbage, I can just turn on CNN or NBC or one of those. Just show us the highlights and be gone. Wouldn't hurt to have a personality or two.
Once ESPN got owned by Disney, the free-wheeling good times were over....corporate greed and political correctness ruined the locker-room atmosphere that we had gotten used to from 1979 to about 2000.
I remember this interview live on tv. I loved it. I love both these guys. I still watch or listen to Dan every day on 5he Dan Patrick Show and see Chris Berman on car shield warranty coverage🤣🤣🤣
Back when ESPN was more than hot takes and yelling. I was just getting into watching sports tv when these guys were on. All these years later, Dan Patrick Show is on every morning for me.
@@charlesdjones1 Agree 100%. Good points!!!! ESPN’s latest deception on releasing a story about Aaron Rodgers on draft day as if it was breaking news when it’s closer to fake news was the last straw for me following any corporate media for sports news. I might check scores this season but I’m never getting sucked into the drama again. 😀
I will never forget watching a game with Chris and Robin Roberts calling it. Chris, as usual was giving all the players nicknames and it was very humerous. One of the teams was the Bears with a Stanford Tight End named Ryan Wetnight. Robin, on air told Chris, I can't wait until you give Wetnight his nickname. Chris just groaned and went silent while Robin laughed like crazy.
This is why I don't watch the show on Sunday anymore. Him and Tom Jackson were so cool together and complemented each other, you just got entertained. What do I have now...the Lions pregame show.
It's been a year or so since I first saw this. Clearly Boomer's heart is breaking. Kicked to the kerb like so many of that age during the economic down turn. It hit lots of great men. Just got to suck it up and move on. Miss ya Boomer.
It happens to all of us some sooner some later i could see the sadness in his eyes when you've been doing what you love and then just like that they tell you they don't need you any more, I to was let go after allmost 25 yrs in the same place during Christmas no less but you move on.
I'm not catching the Audience Standing in the back watching the show with the Host and Guests to their backs?.....They seem disassociated and disrespected from the show's Directors and Producers
Originator of Burmanism’s Wally Absorbeen Joyner, Kevin Alka Seitzer, Pete raise your hand if your Shoreck; Roberto remember the Alomar, Fred McGriff the crimedog, many others but of coarse the greatest burmanism of all Andre Bad Moon Risen 😂
Drama now sells just as much as the sport. Take AB as an example. They realized this with Terrell Owens. Think about the last sport show you watched over millionaires...was it about the sport or about the drama created? One reason to do this is 1) Athletes make millions, so much to a degree, they are unrepelatable to the average person. So drama can create interest. 2) It catches your attention. Now the attention part we can blame on them, but we watch the drama, and that says something about us. Hence why as if 2012 the NFL is actually not labeled a sport, it's Sports Entertainment.
Scott Davidson well it was hard to make that work. You combined one of the most exciting guys in sports television with the most boring game. Baseball is more suited for announcers like Joe Buck that exhibit the amount of excitement you see at a Monday night bingo at the local VFW
@@BroJ3221 Al Michaels did baseball on ABC in the '70's and brought excitement to the booth in his play calling. But that's Al Michaels. Berman's strength was not play-by-play in my opinion. I never found him exciting or interesting; he was LOUD certainly, but LOUD is not necessarily exciting. He chewed his words. He had an everyman, likeable appeal, much like John Madden.
