Corsi said:HD has not been kind to Oliver over the past 2-3 seasons.
By far the worst thing about being at the Pats Saints game in person.Corsi said:HD has not been kind to Oliver over the past 2-3 seasons.
DanoooME said:The real reason is because she was such a Niners fan in the NFC Championship.
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.
the1andonly3003 said:so Pam Oliver is replacing Tony Siragusa?
Vandalman said:Some aren't taking the news so well:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/07/15/bernstein-erin-andrews-over-pam-oliver-raises-questions/
garlan5 said:
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.
garlan5 said:That quote sounds pretty biased.
Oliver was recognized as the highest-profile African-American woman in sports broadcasting
when did Fox announce their 2014 broadcast teams?DanoooME said:
Burkhardt and Lynch are now #2. The Albert/Goose/Moose team is #3.
Buying into ABC's MNF hype, Sumner?SumnerH said:And I think Lisa Salters would find this part a little presumptuous:
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.Reverend said:Buying into ABC's MNF hype, Sumner?
I seriously hate her so much. Social media is the reason she has a big house! Shut up. Shut up.
So I'm trying to figure out what this means. Do you miss not seeing her on television?Dan to Theo to Ben said:By far the worst thing about being at the Pats Saints game in person.
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."
"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."