Bob Costas is not the worst olympics commentator

Try as he might, he's managed to surround himself with enough mediocrity that he still rises to the top. First off is Chris Collinsworth. The guy may know something about football, but he is definitely out of place when it comes to olympics coverage though. He's not the worst though. Mary Carillo takes that title. She's bad. Real bad. She reminds me of an SNL character playing a commentator - not an actual commentator.

I wish they'd just stick to airing the sports. Even the individual sport specialists have some decent insight, but the studio hosts who direct us between the various sports and human interest stories blow.

How Chris Collinsworth ended up a broadcaster is beyond me. He's annoying to listen to even when it is a football game.

What, you didn't like the special report she did on the Polar Bears that are in Canada.... 4000 miles away.... Yea, just jump in your car, and head to see the polar bears- oh, forgot, different MONTH, too.

Sorta like having a report on fall whale migrations in Seattle for the summer Olympics in Atlanta. Same country is about it.

I, too, wish they would just cover SPORTS. There's a lot of it to be seen, and we are missing most of it. Currently, for any alpine or sliding sport- we see the American (USA, USA, USA), and the top 3. Generally, that's 5 runs. But since Bode Miller got a medal, the 5th run was the Canadian crashing- for the downhill. Sad. If you don't telvise the games, then you are right that nobody will watch them- shocking how that is.

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Jimmy Roberts is the worst of the lot. His human interest pieces are vomit inducing.

Can someone please explain Dick Buttons shoes to me? And what kind of kname is "Dick button"? Hey my circumcision whent hribly wrong, that's OK though 'cuz now I got a .... Well you get the idea.

That guy's stuck in nostalgia land rambling about how much better ice skating was in the old days when he was out doing his thing.

one the younger female german curlers looked kinda cute, unfortunately they were beating the americans today. my co-workers thought the scottish girl for britain was cute, but i hate the brutish (sic), so I had to digress.

I read the title of this post and my first thought was "John Tesh."

Will wrote: I read the title of this post and my first thought was "John Tesh."

You shut your mouth!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_h7Lm7C9Nk

EricM wrote: And what kind of kname is "Dick button"?

His dad was a) unimaginative, and b) a fan of levi's button fly blue jeans.

Does anyone know what the songs used in the Cris Collinsworth interview of Shaun White were? It's bugging the hell out of me. I NEED the song they used when they were showing off his super secret half pipe.

I don't have cable, so thanks to NBC I thought there wer only 2 men in all of the USA competeing in the Olympics, as I only ever saw commercials about the figure skater who thought he wanted to be a hockey player....and another guy.

I agree, it would have been decent of NBC to air a few PRE-Olympic tv shows (it's not like they don't have any shows they could've "bumped" from the schedule) giving an half hour here and there on some of the folks competing in the Olympics...instead of trying to use "human interest" stories about the various atheleltes as filler between events.

Mary Carillo...my wife reacts to her the same way Margie does with Costas. Double down with the inevitable NBC reference to "endangered polor bears" and I thought her head would explode.

(Fact: there are more polar bears today than there were 10 years ago.)

93celicaGT2 wrote: Does anyone know what the songs used in the Cris Collinsworth interview of Shaun White were? It's bugging the hell out of me. I NEED the song they used when they were showing off his super secret half pipe.

I don't know the songs, but that private half-pipe was incredible! And his runs last night were truly amazing.

He he ehe heeh hhehehe...Dick Buttons.

If Costas isn't the worst, he's awful damn close.

honestly, what good can be said about a guy who's name is a code for that

Dick Buttons is code for what again?