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Football sideline reporter girl: Useless?
12-23-02, 08:05 PM
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Football sideline reporter girl: Useless?
The sideline girl reporter who asks your favorite football star stupid questions, like "do you hope to win tonight?".
Useless or not?
Melissa Stark is on right now (Monday night football)
Useless or not?
Melissa Stark is on right now (Monday night football)
12-23-02, 10:26 PM
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Suzy Kolber is very knowledgable..I like her
Ditto for Pam Oliver, Leslie Visser and Andrea Kramer
Melissa is basically eye candy..Not that there's anything wrong with that.
ABC uses her a lot less for some reason
Women have the right to be on the sidelines it's 2002 for christ sake!
When are you we going to see a female analyst in the booth??
Some of those former players are real airheads IMO
Ditto for Pam Oliver, Leslie Visser and Andrea Kramer
Melissa is basically eye candy..Not that there's anything wrong with that.
ABC uses her a lot less for some reason
Women have the right to be on the sidelines it's 2002 for christ sake!
When are you we going to see a female analyst in the booth??
Some of those former players are real airheads IMO
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12-24-02, 03:16 AM
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Melissa is a UVa. alum and it is well known on campus she slept with every single athlete she could get her hands/thighs/mouth/chest on.
Melissa is a UVa. alum and it is well known on campus she slept with every single athlete she could get her hands/thighs/mouth/chest on.
Suzy Kolber knows enough to coach and the Lions could really use her.
12-24-02, 08:12 AM
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The only things they are useful for are eye-candy and getting injury news. Otherwise, I can think of few things less informative than the pregame and halftime interviews with the coaches running on and off the field.
12-24-02, 11:37 PM
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Leslie Visser is a moron w/ a shrill voice and should be humanely destroyed.
I rather like Melissa Stark (as the man said, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time...
), Pam Oliver and Bonnie Bernstein.
Do any of these women really come off worse than Armen Keteyan ("So, Bob, did that compound fracture hurt much?") or Jim Grey? (Who looks perpetually like he's hoping Miss Lane will put in a good word for him w/ Perry White...)
I rather like Melissa Stark (as the man said, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time...
), Pam Oliver and Bonnie Bernstein.Do any of these women really come off worse than Armen Keteyan ("So, Bob, did that compound fracture hurt much?") or Jim Grey? (Who looks perpetually like he's hoping Miss Lane will put in a good word for him w/ Perry White...)
12-25-02, 11:29 AM
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Sideline reporters can play a VERY important role (especially with injury updates, etc), and some of the women doing that job are knowledgeable about football, so I don't have any problem with them...
...unless it is a woman who doesn't know much about football, and is just there as a "token" woman on the broadcast team, and as eye candy.
I would think that the other women in the business who are qualified to do the job, but don't get it because they aren't "pretty" enough should be pissed about the ones hired as eye candy.
I don't think that the TV broadcasts use the sideline reporters nearly as well as radio broadcasts. The best use of a sideline reporter I've ever heard has been on the San Diego State Aztec football broadcasts. They go to the sideline reporter (a VERY knowlegeable former high school and college coach) every 4 or 5 plays for info about strategy, what he saw on a play, or injury updates. There are some women in the business who could do the same thing on TV (granted, on TV you wouldn't use the sideline reporter as often as that, but they certainly could be used more - and more effectively - than they are now).
...unless it is a woman who doesn't know much about football, and is just there as a "token" woman on the broadcast team, and as eye candy.
I would think that the other women in the business who are qualified to do the job, but don't get it because they aren't "pretty" enough should be pissed about the ones hired as eye candy.
I don't think that the TV broadcasts use the sideline reporters nearly as well as radio broadcasts. The best use of a sideline reporter I've ever heard has been on the San Diego State Aztec football broadcasts. They go to the sideline reporter (a VERY knowlegeable former high school and college coach) every 4 or 5 plays for info about strategy, what he saw on a play, or injury updates. There are some women in the business who could do the same thing on TV (granted, on TV you wouldn't use the sideline reporter as often as that, but they certainly could be used more - and more effectively - than they are now).
12-27-02, 12:29 PM
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I don't see how the women listed are anymore useless than Armen Keteyan, Eric Dickerson, or a personal favorite Lynn Swann (Swanney!). The only male that has a niche that no women has yet to go after is Jim Gray, and his niche is the ability to ask questions that may get him punched. I find Kolber especially can get away with asking a coach why his team is playing poorly. She tend to ask it in a non-confrontational manner, and is too cute for the coach to unload on.
Sideline reporters are there to give you injury updates and basic quotes from the players and coaches, nothing more.
What kind of in depth questions do you expect in 20 seconds? Probes on why the team didn't use more "Cover 2" or "Stunt Blitz"?
Sideline reporters are there to give you injury updates and basic quotes from the players and coaches, nothing more.
What kind of in depth questions do you expect in 20 seconds? Probes on why the team didn't use more "Cover 2" or "Stunt Blitz"?
12-27-02, 12:35 PM
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One more thing, I really didn't like that post on Melissa Stark's supposed sexual history. It is at best an unsubstantiated rumor.
If true, what does it add to the conversation on female side reporters? Would Melissa Stark be a poorer sideline reporter because she slept with X amount of people in college? Is Marv Albert a bad announcer for Monday Night Football radio because he doesn't paint a mental picture for the listener (He doesn't), or because he once was publicly embarrassed for his sexual exploits?
If true, what does it add to the conversation on female side reporters? Would Melissa Stark be a poorer sideline reporter because she slept with X amount of people in college? Is Marv Albert a bad announcer for Monday Night Football radio because he doesn't paint a mental picture for the listener (He doesn't), or because he once was publicly embarrassed for his sexual exploits?
12-27-02, 01:41 PM
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12-27-02, 04:52 PM
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Discussion on this from Sports Forum (that included pics 
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12-28-02, 01:36 AM
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Originally posted by AXP 103
I don't see how the women listed are anymore useless than Armen Keteyan, Eric Dickerson, or a personal favorite Lynn Swann (Swanney!). The only male that has a niche that no women has yet to go after is Jim Gray, and his niche is the ability to ask questions that may get him punched.
I don't see how the women listed are anymore useless than Armen Keteyan, Eric Dickerson, or a personal favorite Lynn Swann (Swanney!). The only male that has a niche that no women has yet to go after is Jim Gray, and his niche is the ability to ask questions that may get him punched.
Keteyan is especially annoying, because he looks so scholarly, and yet proves time and again (i.e., whenever he opens his mouth) to be an idiot.
