Great moments in comentary.

[antiussentiment]

Ok... here's the gig.

You are watching the game, as usual the commentators say something (stupid/bland/crazy/funny/sexist..etc..) and you'd like to remember it because it rang your bell in some way. So this will be the thread you post it to for posterity.

There is a catch how ever. You MUST do a dual post. If you wish to make a TV commentary posting you MUST also do a peanut gallery comment from the lounge chair opposite your screen. The two do not have to be related to the same incident but probably should be from the same "session" of footy watching... Use capitals in the quote to drive it home. Put the quotes at the top of your post and any comments you want to make down the bottom so it is easy for other people to skim though the list.

It should look like this.

Fox commentators;
"....SO IT'S NOT CALLED THAT BECAUSE THE BALL IS YELLOW?"

The couch;
"MAN LOOK AT THAT!.... MINCE WITH EARS..."

[gotheforce]

haha. that was the debate on why a banana kick was called so wasnt it. I was sitting on my couch and thought either the commentator was seriously stupid, or this was his first game of rugby.

[shasta]

I was sitting on my couch and thought either the commentator was seriously stupid, or this was his first game of rugby.

Right on the first option. Wrong on the second. It was just Murray Mexted doing his usual meathead rambling.

[no.8]

Murray Mexted whilst commentating on a Crusaders game.
Ben Blair scored a great try after scything through the Highlanders defence from a perfectly timed reverse pass from Daniel Carter.
Mexted," I love to watch Ben Blair come inside of Daniel Carter...."

[gotheforce]

Murray Mexted again, with some really good ones. Courtesy of Zoo Magazine.

1. "You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that."

2. "Spencer's running across field claling out 'come inside me, come inside me.' "

3."Darryl Gibson has been quite magnificent coming inside Andrew Mehrtens and I'm looking forward to seeing more of the same today."

4."Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him."

5."Everybody knows i've been pumping Martin leslie for a couple of seasons now."

6."I can tell you its a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through."

[GIGS20]

Classic!

[The Lone Hydrangea]

We met Murray in Christchurch 2006. After a bit of hinting he realised our Blue Force jerseys = Force.
Nice bloke, but he isnt the sharpest tool in the box. NZ equalivent of Bill Lawry and the rest of the knobs on 9.

[antiussentiment]

I think this week was i bit poor for commentary.. i've watched most of the S14 games and did not spot much worth a mention. worse still most of what i watched was alone, so there were no dumb arse comments from the couch (see top of thread)...

however while watching the "ella 7s" ladies final on NITV i got this from one of the commentators.

COMMENTATORS;
"give it to lee, give it to lee... wow look at her go!!" (referring to one of the coffs harbour player scoring a runaway consolation try).
"Yeah well you do run pretty fast when you got a big black person chasing you glen..."

COUCH;
** shakes head and blinks **

I kid you not people...
auss.

[tic]

This one-

Media Watch: The Perils of Calling it how you see it (10/03/2008)

is priceless.

Click on the link for "The perils of calling it as you see it".

[Jess]

I loved the call from one of the boys from the Fox Sports commentary team a few years back during one of the Wallabies vs Springbok games.

'Looks like the only highlights in Percy Montgomery's game tonight are the ones in his hair'

[Swee_82]

It's not quite 'commentry' but couldn't go past it:

Katich: Captaincy gave me the runs

Someone's obviously done that on purpose too, which jsut makes it worse

[jargan83]

Hey captaining the greatest cricketing state in Australia is stressfull...........................

[AndyS]

It may be apocryphal, but I heard that Polly Farmer's one stint as a radio commentator came to an abrupt halt as he called "...one bounce and, OH c*** of a kick!"

[James]

I always like the call Phil Kearns made when Luke Andrews (I think) of the Hurricanes was yellow carded against the Force at Subi last year. He came off the field and to keep warm went onto one of those cycly bike things that don't move.

"Now of course he is wearing the yellow jersey so that means he's winning the race."

[antiussentiment]

i actualy heard somthing pretty good this week end.. but i did not come strait down and enter it... now it's gone :-(