OT: Pam Ward Hates Injured Players
Via Dr. Saturday
Basically wishing the trainers would hurry up and drag the injured player off the field. I expect some half assed apology will crop up.
Hinton seems to dislike Ward, and I'll agree I dislike her, but no more than the rest of the pack from ESPN's second string announcing crew. Ward should be pulled off games due to her lack of class, but she'll be replaced by someone just as bad.
December 28th, 2009 at 4:36 PM ^
What I don't get is how there's not ANYONE that they can find that can do this better? There should be a long line of people ready and willing to take her place that know just as much about football as her and aren't annoying to listen to. I don't have a problem with her being a woman, I have a problem with the way her voice grates on my eardrums.
December 28th, 2009 at 5:04 PM ^
Pam Ward is ESPNs sexual harrassment lawsuit insurance policy. That's why she stays on the air despite the fact that everyone hates listening to her.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:27 PM ^
Ugh. I can think of any number of women I'd rather have talking than her. At least get someone I'd be interested in harassing.
December 28th, 2009 at 4:46 PM ^
If not for a lack of class, then for her incredible inability to call a football game.
She makes me desire a punch in the dong, if only to distract me from the pain in my bleeding ears...
Exhibit A:
In the fourth quarter of a 3-point game, Pam doesn't seem to notice that there is a football game until the running back is 15 yards downfield...
December 28th, 2009 at 4:48 PM ^
Pam Ward comes in a close second to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi6vWpc3Hs0
December 28th, 2009 at 5:01 PM ^
Methinks there are politics at work here. I'd guess that her presence in the booth pacifies a certain group of people. I'll leave it at that.
December 28th, 2009 at 5:05 PM ^
I would not want to see Pam Ward in a dark alley. She might kill me.
December 28th, 2009 at 5:10 PM ^
Or maybe she'll just kneecap you (and then complain when the EMTs take too long dragging you to the ambulance).
December 28th, 2009 at 5:19 PM ^
Was she insensitive, yes. Is she annoying to listen to, yes. Should she be forced off air for a comment that was at worst slightly obnoxious, no. We all need to man up and stop the need for forcing suspensions at the drop of the hat. Although I understand she probably should need to apologize, it is pretty clear that it was a comment not intended for the public. I don't think anyone can pretend that this same situation has never happened to you. Everyone has made a slightly insensitive comment that was heard by an unintended audience.
Titling this thread "Pam Ward Hates Injured Players" is sensationalizing a complete non-issue. For an example in everyday life, lets say you are playing pick-up basketball. Everyone hates the guy who calls every ticky-tack foul. Sometimes you just need to let the small issues go.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:35 PM ^
In my personal opinion there is a difference between saying something you regret later, and what she said. She crossed the line with that comment. It doesnt matter that the comment wasnt meant for the public, its not right to be say something like that about a college kid who is in such obvious pain.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:39 PM ^
It was more a bit of sarcasm on my part in the headline.
Personally I feel she really doesn't care about football. She had no exprience with the sport until she got into sports broadcast by way of woman's basketball. Once in the field she figured out football reporters are the highest profile (for the most part) and got in on that area of broadcasting. Hence her dabbling in the NFL / NCAA FB.
December 29th, 2009 at 12:08 AM ^
It's not like she intentionally said this on air. As far as I'm concerned, it was a minor slip and she doesn't deserve to get the ESPN banhammer solely because of this incident. However, if she got fired because she is a terrible announcer, so be it.
December 28th, 2009 at 5:22 PM ^
...we should have to wait a few seconds to get to the next "Flomax Bowl Update"
Did you catch that part? Pathetic
December 28th, 2009 at 5:33 PM ^
I was too busy going and going and going and going and going and going...
December 28th, 2009 at 5:40 PM ^
What she said was incredibly insensitive, and she has been in broadcasting long enough to know not to say what she did. I was offended myself, and I think that she needs to reexamine her priorities (supporting an injured athlete vs. getting through her precious broadcast).
December 28th, 2009 at 6:27 PM ^
Classless Tuesday.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:29 PM ^
Fortunately, the feeling is mutual.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:58 PM ^
Pam Ward also hates good announcing.
December 28th, 2009 at 8:25 PM ^
Brat is the clean version; I would prefer to use a word one letter further up the alphabet.
Ward sounded like the epitome of the spoiled little kid who wants his or her way right now. She apparently has no idea how much of a privilege it is to be announcing football games for a living. If she is so bored and discontened with one of the best jobs in the world that she has to react with anger because an injured player isn't being moved off the field fast enough to suit her, she should be set free to find another job more to her liking.
Worse yet, Ward has been around sports enough to know that you don't risk a kid's knee by allowing him to get up until you know that he can do so without further damaging it. In a situatiton like that, you decide whether or not a stretcher is appropriate; if the injury isn't severe enough to require a stretcher, then you help the athlete up, providing whatever support you can for the injured area. That appears to be exactly what the trainers did.
Whether Ward is ignorant, spoiled, or just a professional malcontent, I am appalled at her behavior. At the very least, she owes that kid's family a public apology.
As if she even knows his name......
December 28th, 2009 at 9:31 PM ^
If the stuff she said was audible to a listening audience, she should be, at the very least, suspended from the broadcast booth for a few months, if not terminated altogether.
Totally classless.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:10 PM ^
after the game when his boys told him that Pam Ward was dogging him. Talk about adding insult to injury.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:51 PM ^
That was a pretty low thing to do with an injured player
on the field. Maybe she was worried about having to
ad-lib for a while until the kid was taken off the field,
or that Flomax commercial got her thinking about her
swollen prostate.
She has her own award;
http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2008/12/your-overall-pammy-winner-f…
December 29th, 2009 at 8:19 AM ^
Mike Leach even thought she was insensitive
December 29th, 2009 at 2:30 PM ^
It goes to show how TV people are conditioned to avoid dead (noiseless) time like the plague. She starts panicking 20 seconds into the video clip. I'm surprised the producer for that game didn't throw in the obligatory "Here's how the guy got injured" replay to help her out.
December 29th, 2009 at 4:29 PM ^
Pam Ward hates Pam Ward.