In referring to Hoya's blog about sports commentators, I started to wonder myself if we even needed commentators at all. I personally would prefer a different form of viewing professional sports. For example, the NFL network has a show called, Mic'd Up where they show the game play by play but show the audience what both the players and coaches are saying on the sideline, even showing the inappropriate language. Most of the time commentators do not have anything to say and end up either talking about a topic either completely unrelated or something so obvious that does not needed to be said. A great example of this is John Madden. Either he is the dumbest man alive or is completely wrong for the job yet he is one of the most popular commentators around.

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