Give The Viewing Audience Some Credit  This past Friday night, I
was subjected to one of the biggest of my many pet peeves
involving televised sports. There is a racing correlation here,
so stay with me. You would think I had had enough football over
the past couple of weeks, but I watched the Cotton Bowl
featuring LSU and Texas A&M.  Unlike most of the bowl games that
were on ESPN, this one was on FOX. I haven’t been very
complimentary of ESPN’s coverage of the IZOD IndyCar Series, but
I think they do an excellent job with college football. FOX
needs to either stick with doing NFL games or get a separate
team of announcers for the college game.  The Cotton Bowl
announcers were Kenny Albert and Daryl (Moose) Johnston. They
normally do a decent job on NFL games, if you can ignore their
completely useless cohort, Tony Siragusa – who roams the
sideline with an always-live microphone. He brings nothing to
each telecast and usually detracts from it. Fortunately, they
left him at home for the Cotton Bowl.  So what