Erin Andrews to replace Pam Oliver on #1 Fox team

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HD has not been kind to Oliver over the past 2-3 seasons.  
 

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For the most part, this is an eye candy function.  Andrews is vastly superior eye candy.  Good move, Fox. 
 
And Corsi, was HD ever kind to Pam Oliver?  
 

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never liked Pam Oliver her interviews were horrible and she seems rather bitchy.  No problems with Andrews
 

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DanoooME said:
The real reason is because she was such a Niners fan in the NFC Championship.   :p
 
That really was pretty inexcusable. I have no problem with this. There are two elements to the job: being eye candy and having to-the-point interviews. Erin Andrew is really good on both of those, Pam Oliver on neither. (And, not to defend Erin Andrews, about whom I don't really care, but if she had done that weepy Pam Oliver interview post the 9ers game, she'd have been raked over the coals as a dumb blonde).
 

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Some aren't taking the news so well:
 
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/07/15/bernstein-erin-andrews-over-pam-oliver-raises-questions/
 
 
Oliver was recognized as the highest-profile African-American woman in sports broadcasting, a fact that reminds us of the massive reach and strength of the NFL. Her bad hair day last January was in fact important enough to be a major story in black media, forcing her to respond to critics and raising troubling concerns about racial double standards for appearance created from both outside the black community and from within. As silly as it all sounds, it mattered because Pam Oliver carried symbolic significance, no matter what she was actually doing.
But FOX needs to park Andrews somewhere that can possibly validate her acquisition, and this move helps promote her further out of harm’s way. To say she’s a lightweight would be taking it easy on her, as her level of discomfort has been obvious in any role so far, whether behind a desk or in a dugout. She just isn’t very good at anything and doesn’t offer much of a personality. One doesn’t have to be smart, interesting, clever or funny to generate pageviews, but the camera asks for more.
 

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That quote sounds pretty biased.  i thought Andrews did an excellent job at the world series last year especially post game celebrations.  I thought she handled Richard Sherman's ignorance after the NFC championship game about as well as you could. 
 
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Oliver was recognized as the highest-profile African-American woman in sports broadcasting, a fact that reminds us of the massive reach and strength of the NFL. Her bad hair day last January was in fact important enough to be a major story in black media, forcing her to respond to critics and raising troubling concerns about racial double standards for appearance created from both outside the black community and from within. As silly as it all sounds, it mattered because Pam Oliver carried symbolic significance, no matter what she was actually doing.
 
 
But FOX needs to park Andrews somewhere that can possibly validate her acquisition, and this move helps promote her further out of harm’s way. To say she’s a lightweight would be taking it easy on her, as her level of discomfort has been obvious in any role so far, whether behind a desk or in a dugout. She just isn’t very good at anything and doesn’t offer much of a personality. One doesn’t have to be smart, interesting, clever or funny to generate pageviews, but the camera asks for more.
 

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That quote sounds pretty biased.  i thought Andrews did an excellent job at the world series last year especially post game celebrations.  I thought she handled Richard Sherman's ignorance after the NFC championship game about as well as you could. 
 
 

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And I think Lisa Salters would find this part a little presumptuous:
 
Buying into ABC's MNF hype, Sumner?
 

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"Andrews should watch her back, too. Holly Sonders just got hired away from the Golf Channel by FOX, and she will reportedly have her own spot on the NFL sidelines this fall. She has longer legs, bigger boobs and even her own naked-photos-on-the-internet story. And she’s only 27."
 

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Buying into ABC's MNF hype, Sumner?
Weirdly I think hardcore NFL fans are one place that Oliver probably is more recognized. Salters probably has wider appeal outside of die-hard sports fans, though; she was all over TV during the OJ case and has covered things like the World Cup and Olympics and the "rah rah troops" events that draw a broader audience.
 

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She probably doesn't count now that she's on GMA and doesn't do a whole lot of sports-specific reporting but Robin Roberts is certainly the most prominent.
 

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IMO, Erin Andrews is only slightly better than Jenny Dell in the "always sounds like she's reading something for the first time even when she's speaking extemporaneously" category of TV talent.
 
The "FOX  had to park her somewhere" point was spot-on. "Really good NFL sideline interviewer" is World's Tallest Midget  territory.  "I asked Coach Chamberpot how his team could rebound from being down  by 17 touchdowns at halftime with Ebola spreading through the lockerroom.  He said, "we just have to execute our game plan better in all three phases of the game."
 
If the networks want to spend their money on things that dont actually add anything to the telecast, that's their business.  And if the sideline reporter gig pays well, then good for the people who have the job.  But Andrews's move is not because she's some sort of crack interviewer.  Its because she was pretty bad at the other spots they put her in after their high-profile signing her away from ESPN.
 

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garlan5 said:
"Andrews should watch her back, too. Holly Sonders just got hired away from the Golf Channel by FOX, and she will reportedly have her own spot on the NFL sidelines this fall. She has longer legs, bigger boobs and even her own naked-photos-on-the-internet story. And she’s only 27."
 
I didn't know who that was until now.  I don't think Erin has to worry.  Holly looks like she could be my sister, and that's not a compliment.
 

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Pam Oliver responds.
 
"Even before my bosses told me what was going on, there had been rumblings that my days as a sideline reporter were coming to an end," Oliver wrote in an essay with Jeannine Amber. "Two years earlier, Fox Sports had hired Erin Andrews, a high-profile sideline reporter from ESPN, and I knew they hadn’t brought her on just to be a benchwarmer. Colleagues, and even coaches and players, would come up to me and say things like, 'Boy, you’re handling this well. You’re really a class act.' But I let the rumors roll off my back. Without official confirmation about a change in my position, I decided I was going to do my work like I always had. Still, I was humiliated."