Only Tiger Had A Worse Week At Chambers, Says Fox Sports Live Guy On Fox's Broadcast
/The irreverent style of Fox's nightly Fox Sports Live can't be faulted for pulling punches after setting up their Open Championship/Tiger coverage by pointing out that only Woods had a worse week than their production team did at Chambers Bay. Fox Sports Live's Jay Onrait:
Give us a break, it was Fox’s first time broadcasting the U.S. Open. Tiger’s performance at Chambers Bay was actually worse than ours was. Good news is he doesn’t have to wait a whole year to prove his doubters wrong like we do.
Good for them for laughing at themselves, but I'm not sure if the folks in Far Hills will find it so funny.
And as they rightly pointed out, Tiger has a chance to turn it around soon, whereas they have another year to figure things out. Wild stuff! You can play the full setup to the Tiger segment here.
**Joe Buck talked to Mad Dog Chris Russo about criticism of Fox before the MLB All Star game and is lashing back at NBC and the NY Times' Richard Sandomir, saying he "could give a seminar on" on the criticism. The best part may be his gloating over the NY Times conceding to a retraction that confused Brad Faxon's mistaken reference to Louis Oosthuizen's country of origin. Buck says "we" sought the retraction and notes they finally got it a month later, sure to throw his fellow broadcast team member under the rug! Looking out for his teammates is Joe.
This quote was a keeper too:
"When you break into a new sport, especially a sport like golf, they kind of want to pound on you to let you know you don’t belong yet. If people said that was nothing like what was on before on NBC for the U.S. Open and therefore was bad, to me that is the greatest compliment we could be paid."
Wow, wow, wow.
He also said "The compliments will continue to come when other networks start doing what we did," and then, inexplicably to make up for Fox completely missing key shots into 18 with blimp replays as the "same old stuff."
As for the criticism, including comments from Johnny Miller and social media jabs from NBC folk, Buck says it's
"That stuff comes back around. Never seen this to the level," and says it's “really kind of gross” what’s happened.
Mostly though, he chalks up the abysmal coverage to golf being "close minded" and say, "as we go forward, the stuff they are doing technology wise will be groundbreaking."
Which is true. But you can't also be breaking new ground by missing out on the basics.
