As we have all heard by now, Pam Ward will be calling the Michigan @ IU game this Saturday on ESPNU. I can't stand this women for many reasons so I thought it would be fun to see why everyone else also severely dislikes her.
I can't stand her because she totally kills the players names and couldn't diagnose a play if it was right in front of her face.
How about the mgocommunity?
Is it because she is
Who is Reason and why does
Who is Reason and why does his "we" hate Pam Ward?
I think the headline means
I think the headline means that a guy named Reason wrote a book/article called "We hate Pam Ward." Sounds like a good read.
Let me be the first to
Let me be the first to say:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm thinking I'm prolly gonna
I'm thinking I'm prolly gonna make the 13-hour round trip to see the game in person, just so I don't have to listen to her butcher the game on TV
Sometimes I think it's a sin
When I feel like I'm winnin when I'm losin again
I had already planned on
I had already planned on going to this game, but now the fact that ol' Pammy is calling it makes me even happier I'm making a similar 12-hour round trip trek.
"The difference between a man and a boy is, a boy wants to grow up to be a fireman, but a man wants to grow up to be a giant monster fireman."
- Jack Handey
I hate Pam Ward because the
I hate Pam Ward because the first three times I watched a game she called, I couldn't tell if she was a man or a woman.
And
How can you tell now?
not just "douchey" MGoBlog user, but now TRUSTED MGoBlog user
Thank god
She hadn't been named "Francis" or "Pat". At least with "Pam" you've got a fighting chance of figuring it out.
I shit you not...
The first four games I heard her, I thought she was a bottle of cooking spray.
via Wikipedia
In December 2009, Ward disrespected an injured Marshall Football player by stating, "Dammit...Get him off the field please...Hurry up!"
"It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach."
That was the nail in the coffin
For years I felt like Pam Ward had no real passion in football announcing and she was just doing it for the paycheck. I always kind of felt bad though, like I was being too hard on her. Then when I saw that clip I realized I'd been right all along and gave into my hatred. I hate her because she is no talent hack that somehow got a gig due to social connections and is blocking some good announcer from getting a job.
"somehow" = equal opportunity
"somehow" = equal opportunity at the expense of quality expertise
-Formerly known as Richrodiculous
"Not tricks, Michael, illusions. A trick is something a whore does for money...Or cocaine!"
(No subject)
"lets send it to the studio...
for a Flomax bowl update."
I just love inadvertant piss jokes.
That was the *second* nail in the coffin. The first is REDACTED
I tried finding the video where at the end of a tied basketball game the clock ticks down and Pam Ward says "and this game is OVER...no...I'm sorry, we're going to overtime. OVERTIME it is!" What.the.hell.
It's been erased from the internet, apparently. Not even Awful Announcing has it anymore. I don't know what happened to it.
Jesus tapdancing christ in a
Jesus tapdancing christ in a handbasket. I hadn't seen this clip until now; how does she still have a job?!
WOW
Just...WOW!!
How can anyone be so heartless. What a beeeeyotch!!
I had never seen nor heard of this before now. Now I know to particularly dislike this heshe.
"Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there."
(Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak, USMC, April 1965.)
Pam Ward
I still can''t believe she wasn't removed after that. It's probably the most appalling thing a football commentator has said on-air since Jimmy the Greek.
"You will suffer humiliation when the team from my area defeats the team from your area." -- The Onion
I think the clip where the
I think the clip where the one announcer overly describes a player's soft hands and the other one replies with "That... thats kind of gay." is tied with this or a very close second.
Does it tickle? Only slightly, only slightly.
I upvote any post by BlockM. And Magnus.
Gay
Yeah, but at least that was funny, Pam Ward's just an idiot.
"All I've had today is, like, six gummy bears and some scotch"
Three words...
Simulcast. Beckman. Brandstatter.
I just destroyed that toilet with a huge Rosenberg.
Amen.
I've already looked up a couple of radio feeds to play while my TV is muted. As for the OP, I hate Pam Ward because she calls the action about fifteen seconds after it happens.
Your friendly neighborhood contrarian.
what stations are you using?
Anything online stream audio of the game?
...
How about her general lack of knowing anything about football or the players that play it?
Had I not be planning to be in the IU student section...
I would stream the radio broadcast of the game on my computer, turn up the volume, leave the tv on, and turn down the tv volume. That is all that needs to be done.
You're HIV-Aladeen.
I plan on watching the game
I plan on watching the game with the TV muted, and the radio turned up.
HOKEAMANIA RUNNIN' WILD
Formerly, TheLastProphet
Because literally every damn
Because literally every damn time she calls a game I have to google her to prove to both my mother and father that she is in fact, a woman (...right?).
I know from experience dude. If you know what I mean.
Plus her name backwards is
Plus her name backwards is Map Draw. It's just unnatural to have whole words come out of that.
Sometimes "X" marks the spot to avoid
If there's one treasure I hope never to uncover on a Map, it's hers.
That dude sucks!
That dude sucks!
'Murica & Footbaw: That's what Michigan Does
Be nice to Pam, he has
Be nice to Pam, he has feelings.
I don't understand how she
I don't understand how she gets away with being a terrible announcer and unattractive....i feel that women have to have at least one of those aspects. in order to get the job ...but she somehow has fooled her employers.
That's easy
Bribery.
Hopefully not sex though.
Special Teams means special times!
Makes me wonder about Dana
Makes me wonder about Dana Jacobson as well
Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. - Ephesians 6:11
You bite your tongue sir,
You bite your tongue sir, Dana Jacobson is a legend.
EDIT: Who disagrees with me? Lest we forget this epic event: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/25/dana-jacobson-suspended-b_n_82908.html
She should've been fired for
She should've been fired for the f Jesus comment
Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. - Ephesians 6:11
It's a bit offensive, but I
It's a bit offensive, but I like to think that she was more thinking about Touchdown Jesus and just left the Touchdown bit off of it when she said that. Regardless, I have a hard time disliking someone that hosts a nationally televised sports show and signs off shows frequently with "Go Blue."
If she actually just said
If she actually just said F*** Notre Dame and not the other stuff, she should get a medal. I mean geeze, we have the Knute Rockne story, Rudy and just about all sorts of other ND propaganda.....And did Rockne ever play Yost? No.....Chicken....
and Suzyn Waldman of YES
and Suzyn Waldman of YES Network / Yankees fame. (shiver)
"It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach."
Hahahahah
I love this board
Easy
This is an easy one for me:
She has zero emotion. None. She could just as easily be reading her cable bill as announcing a Michigan touchdown. I don't know if this is intentional or not, but it sucks all excitement out of the game (and just plain sucks).
Those who stay will be champions.
In all honesty
I have absolutely no issue with women calling sports. Even football. A professional play by play person should be clear, concise, defer properly to the color person, make spot-on observations and pronounce names correctly. Someone who is cool and rational and lets the game unfold with a subtle narrative. Do those things, and I'll overlook the weirdness, the alien-ness of a woman's voice during an exciting moment when Denard busts a tackle and is in the open field, or when James Rogers steps in and makes a huge pick at a critical part of the game. Be Brad Nessler with tits, and I'm all for you.
Pam Ward has none of those attributes. She is a perfect storm of fucked up.
Biz hundert azoi ve tsvantsik
Definitely, I'd be happy with
Definitely, I'd be happy with someone like Erin Andrews (even if we didn't see her) because she's enthusiastic and seems to genuinely know her stuff.
Pam Ward reminds me of the substitute announcer from Major League. "Fly ball...caught.
Dude,
that was awesome!
M'Dog
weird moment
of lucidity.
Thanks.
Biz hundert azoi ve tsvantsik
She and Drew Carey have
She and Drew Carey have something in common.
A penis?
A penis?
For today, goodbye. For tomorrow, good luck. And forever, Go Blue.
It's Apparent
That the person who created the mute button knew Pam was going to be born and become a sportscaster.
"An Army is a team; lives, sleeps, eats, fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is a lot of crap."
- Gen. Patton
Because I can't have her.
In such a cynical, sarcastic society, oftentimes looking for the negative on anybody or anything, if you're fortunate enough to spend five minutes or 20 minutes around Tim Tebow, your life is better for it. -Thom Brennaman
Is it because she is particular a'bout punctuation?