Beth Mowins to do play by play Saturday.
With Joey Galloway on color, who I don't recall hearing before. A shame IMO, this confirms me wanting to listen to the radio feed.
[Ed-Ace: I changed the thread title, as Beth Mowins is in my opinion a solid announcer—especially for a noon game on ESPN2—and the immediate parallel drawn to Pam Ward, a far inferior play-by-play announcer, is potentially rooted in something I'm not comfortable seeing on this blog.
Joey Galloway as the color commentator should probably be your biggest concern here. Leaving the rest of the thread up unchanged since it at least contains some pertinent information.]
August 27th, 2014 at 9:21 PM ^
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August 27th, 2014 at 9:24 PM ^
I'm disappointed not because she's a woman. It's because she's an uninteresting play by play announcer IMHO. She doesn't add anything to my experience of watching games especially on the big plays.
August 27th, 2014 at 9:38 PM ^
I don't need her to add anything - just relay any relevant information I can't pick up by watching. From what I've seen of her she does that just fine.
August 27th, 2014 at 9:29 PM ^
It's Michigan football. Barney the dinosaur could be announcing and I'd still watch.
August 27th, 2014 at 9:42 PM ^
August 27th, 2014 at 9:57 PM ^
Granted, it has everything to do with emotional investment, but I find that I really don't pay very much attention to voices and instead much more to the information (if any) being relayed if it is Michigan and I am watching on TV rather than being at the game. Watching the many other games that I might on a Saturday, I find myself noticing who and the quality of the call a lot more. To that end and to speak to the OP's original content, from a live broadcasting standpoint, I find Mowins better than Ward at this.
August 27th, 2014 at 9:52 PM ^
"Joey Galloway Highlights" and this gem popped up - http://www.sportsoverdose.com/nfl-players/joey-galloway-videos
There doesn't seem to be any recent videos here. Check back again soon!
August 27th, 2014 at 9:56 PM ^
Once you heard him broadcast a MEEEEECHIGAN game all the rest is just noise.
August 27th, 2014 at 10:40 PM ^
and Michigan is still trying to find two announcers that can fill the roll he did solo. Try as they might, and Dierdorf and Brandstatter may do very well, there has been nobody yet that can so well paint a Michigan football Saturday in the same comforting hues of homerism as Bob Ufer.
August 27th, 2014 at 11:10 PM ^
"Johnny Wangler to Anthony Carter will be heard until another 100 years of Michigan football is played." Tried to post youtube link but failed.If his call doesn't put a chill up & down your Maize & Blue spine you need to check your pulse.
August 28th, 2014 at 7:55 AM ^
any sport. Personally, he's the best I've heard and the only I ever went out of my way to learn more about. He's before my time and I didn't know anything about him before stumbling across a clip on youtube posted by WH.
Speaking of before my time... man oh man, that horn.
August 28th, 2014 at 9:21 AM ^
They're storming the field! We won't be able to kick the extra point!!!!!!! WHO GIVES A DAMN!!!!!!!!
Was at the stadium (junior year) so I missed the call. We fell out of the chair laughing hearing it on Michigan Replay the next morning. Even Bo was laughing at that one.
August 27th, 2014 at 9:57 PM ^
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August 27th, 2014 at 10:40 PM ^
Beth Mowins is not as bad as Lou Holtz and he is a studio host!
August 27th, 2014 at 10:33 PM ^
to watching on ESPN and listening to the inaugaral broadcast of the Jim and Dan show.
August 27th, 2014 at 10:47 PM ^
I would watch and listen to Jalen Rose and Kate Upton doing the broadcast.
August 27th, 2014 at 11:03 PM ^
August 27th, 2014 at 11:01 PM ^
I'll feel guilty if I don't at least say something, here. I know the original comment may not have been intended that way, but I'm not particularly comfortable with the sexist tenor of this thread. I will fully admit that Pam Ward is annoying to listen to, but as far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be a good reason to call out Beth Mowins for the call individually.
August 27th, 2014 at 11:10 PM ^
Mowins is like Pam Ward. She is fucking awful and the only reason that she is there is that she is ESPN's sexual harrassment lawsuit insurance.
August 28th, 2014 at 9:18 AM ^
She is like Pam Ward in that she is female.
August 28th, 2014 at 9:54 AM ^
And in that she has a terrible voice for play-by-play.
And in that, as as mediocre sideline reporter who was doing games on ESPNU she has no natural talent for smoothly and pleasantly narrating things. Or for adding excitement to accentuate the game's best moments. Although in that regard, she's the same as the majority of the play-by-play announcers that ESPN has annointed in the past 15 years. I have been bitching about ESPN's announcer selections for about a decade now so this is nothing new for me.
August 27th, 2014 at 11:32 PM ^
Crazy that an honest innocuous comment gets deleted. MGoStalag today?
August 27th, 2014 at 11:34 PM ^
August 27th, 2014 at 11:37 PM ^
if she'd just drop the "o" in her last name.
August 27th, 2014 at 11:41 PM ^
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August 27th, 2014 at 11:48 PM ^
listen carefully to the way she says, yard. Can't stand it..... "63 yARRRd gain"
August 28th, 2014 at 12:12 AM ^
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August 28th, 2014 at 8:49 AM ^
How? Maybe I'm missing something, but my radio for the game is always a good 5-8 seconds ahead of my live cable. I have no way to pausing the radio to line it up, and obviously no way of fast forwarding my cable into the future.
August 28th, 2014 at 9:11 AM ^
Damn, just another reason I wish I was living in Michigan and could go to the game.
August 28th, 2014 at 9:18 AM ^
I was just thinking -- "I wonder if ticket sales spiked".
August 28th, 2014 at 11:10 AM ^
...I'm just glad I'll be at the game.
Hmmm.
I think I remember saying that in 2007, too.
August 30th, 2014 at 12:54 PM ^
Mowins on, mute on.