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Message: [QUOTE="msf22b, post: 5350328, member: 656"] Cabbie I’m far from an expert of the intricacies of pro football; even basketball (though I still play a bit at 86)... But I’ve found that watching with the sound (completely) off is increasingly satisfying...especially, with (IMHO) the diminution in quality of broadcast teams and their utter refusal (probably on orders from above) to actually calI the game in a traditional sense. I grew up on Red Barber and Mel Allen for baseball, and Bob Wolf and Marv Albert for BB...UConn’s Bob Joyce on radio calls a good game, but its not synced up to the TV pic I would expect as a minimum be informed who a foul is on and to call the substitutions as they occur. These days, you can't even be guaranteed of that. So for the most part, I just turn off the sound and do my own internal commentary. [/QUOTE]