The Bad and the Ugly
Worst Sideline Reporter: Greg Dickerson
Comments on Boston Sports Media.com about Dickerson say it best. Worst Columnist: John Tomase
After his botching of a story the day before the Patriots Superbowl, Tomase should have been fired.
The Yahoo sports story by MJD went as follows:
If you aren't familiar with the name John Tomase, I sort of envy you. That would mean that you aren't terribly caught up in all this Spygate business, at least not caught up enough to know the name of the unfortunate soul at the Boston Herald who first "broke" the story of the Rams walkthrough tape, which, of course, we now know never existed.
He screwed up. He had sources that weren't concrete and he really wanted to break the story first, so he made some poor assumptions. He ended up printing something about the Patriots that wasn't true.
And in a special treat for Herald readers who demanded their pound of flesh, the Herald turned comments back on for the apology story. One hour after the story was posted (which was sometime around midnight or 1 a.m. last night), there were 53 comments, and exactly two of them weren't bile-filled rants calling for Tomase to be fired and/or beheaded, and then to have his severed head paraded through downtown Boston on a stick, while his parents are tied to the Bunker Hill Monument, where the public are invited to drop by and throw rocks at their faces.
Worst Color Man: Tom Heinsohn
No Tommy Points for Tommy-He is clearly too emotionally attached to the Green, too excitable and overall too loud. I am a homer, but when an announcer alters the truth becasue he has Green in his eyes it gets old fast. Johnny Most was endearing. Tommy Heinsohn is annoying.
Edwards was named the Bruins play-by-play announcer for home and road games in 2007. It was during this time that Edwards started using various phrases such as "Sticks a fork in it", "sends it down the river", "fungo's the puck", "I think I heard post", "sets up in Gretzky's office", " dangles along the (blueline/sidewall)", "The Bruins gave Montreal the proverbial dutch oven!", "They have beaten them, and tonight they have beaten them up", "Oh look there's brave Steve!", "This is like Rockem-Sockem robots", "This building is VIBRATING."
Recently, NESN put together and BINGO game of "Edwardisms" that fans can play at home as Edwards broadcasts. During the March 29, 2009 game between the Bruins and the Philadelphia Flyers, Edwards cackled maniacally after Flyer defenseman Randy Jones was shoved into the boards by Milan Lucic. Bottom line. If it looks like a baffoon and it sounds like a baffoon, it's a baffoon.
Worst Radio Play-by-Play: Gil Santos
I feel a bit like I'm kicking my Grandpa here. How can he be a Hall of Fame candidate above and yet be one of the worst. The long time voice of the Patriots is rarely accurate. His voice goes hand in hand with Patriots football, but I spend most of the game thinking about innaccuracies instead of the game.
He has called Patriots games continuously since 1966, except for a stretch between 1980 and 1990. His 30 years of service makes him the longest-serving current announcer in the NFL. He is also the last team play-by-play announcer from the American football League. Time for some new blood.
We're going to send you the most entertaining New England Patriots articles, videos, and podcasts from around the web.
