I wished these people knew when to show a replay

At “press time” as the news jargon goes all of our prognosticators on Friday morning picked USC to beat Utah in the Pac 12 Championship Game. So by the time this column appeared in this morning’s edition of The Recorder, we’ll have known what kind of start we’ve had to the weekend.

Anyway I watched a lot of football over the Thanksgiving weekend — I mean A LOT OF FOOTBALL — pretty much nonstop and is it just me or do these people who are responsible for these telecasts really have no clue on how to broadcast a game any more?

I mean when I really want them to show me a replay — like when there’s a play that could be reviewed or needs to be reviewed — they wait like FOREVER to show the replay. Do they do this on purpose?

If I was a producer of one of these football broadcasts I would make sure a replay of any close play is shown IMMEDIATELY.

I’m like “Show the replay. Show the replay. SHOW THE REPLAY!”

Note to producers of these games. If I’ve had to say show the replay twice and then yell it a third time, you’ve waited too long to show the replay.

And I can’t imagine these teams are too happy about this, because you know, the outcome of these games could actually be at stake if a replay isn’t shown in a timely manner.

Of course when I don’t really need to see the replay — like when teams go up tempo and there really isn’t enough time to show a replay — that’s when these people decide to show the replay and then that stupid split screen so I have to watch the replay and the live play at the same time.

I can’t tell you how much I hate that split screen.

And don’t get me started on the announcers, which of course actually means I REALLY want to talk about how much these announcers get on my nerves.

They’re normally droning on about something I REALLY don’t care about.

I can’t tell you how many times during four days of football binging I became frustrated with the lack of timely replays.

Or needless replays. Or the idle chatter of the broadcasters. Or the split screens. Or when the announcers in the booth were shown droning on instead of THE REPLAY that REALLY needed to be shown. IMMEDIATELY.

OK I’m done with my rant.

As far as the prognosticators are concerned as always we encourage you to frequent the businesses of our prognosticators whenever possible. And as always we wish you a blessed week.