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The Sports Junkies

Jimmy Traina On The Landscape Of NFL Announcers

The Sports Junkies

Audacy

Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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From 02/14 Hour 4:

Jimmy Traina joins The Sports Junkies to break down the landscape of NFL announcers and Super Bowl LVIII.

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0:00.0

First and gone

0:02.0

My home swings in.

0:04.0

It's there!

0:05.0

Hardman!

0:06.0

Jack Pop, Kansas City!

0:10.0

And this was the Andy Reed Special.

0:12.0

This was the Andy Reed special we talked about he was saving all day

0:16.4

He's gonna fake a motion to go across and at that moment he turns and goes back

0:21.9

Harpen who they didn't have right and they go get Hartman and bring him back and the game-winning drive of Mahon's career.

0:30.0

He's been waiting for his what's your most. He's never had it in an overtime. He is the best. He is the standard. Your

0:36.8

Michael Jordan wins it again.

0:38.8

That was Tony Romo at the end of the Super Bowl, not letting the play breathe, jumping right in and doing a bromo bit.

0:50.0

And we wanted to have Jimmy Trainer on the show to talk some sports media stuff.

0:54.4

He writes for SI now. He's the host of the SI media podcast. And Jimmy, I guess we'll start

0:59.7

with with Romo. He's a real polarizing guy, but when he first started calling games, nobody

1:06.4

knew really anything about his personality, and he was kind of lauded and loved, and

1:12.2

when did it start turning? It started turning maybe

1:18.8

after maybe his second third season I think a big part of this is one of the things that

1:28.0

made Tony a fan favorite when he first came on the scene was he was predicting plays and was right like 99% of the time and it was almost like a magic trick.

1:42.0

It was very cool, the viewers and it was almost like a magic trick it was it was very cool the viewers

1:43.9

liked it and for some reason I'm not sure why but someone at TVS told them to stop and

1:49.3

ever since then, that element of Tony's broadcast is not there now.

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