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(12-15-2022, 08:34 PM)Awful Llama Wrote: You get more info about the team in-game when you listen to them.  They keep an eye on the field and tell you who's going into/coming out of the tent, who's talking to whom and such.  And after him doing games for 30-some years, I can't imagine watching a Bengals game on tv without hearing Lap on the stereo.  

While I do like that aspect of the local broadcast, Dave Lapham is very irritating to listen to if you're not watching the game. My problem with Lapham is he yells over the play by play on almost every single play. Yeah, I get it. He's a fan. Shut the hell up. Let the man do his job, THEN do yours. That's how 99.9999% of every two man broadcast booth works.

Here's a sample of way back when I checked out listening to streams of pre-season games before NFL Network existed and showed every pre-season game.

Play By Play: "Crucial 3rd down and seven to go for the Bengals. Kitna takes the snap, drops back, steps up into the pocket, gets hit as he throws the ba . . ."
Lapham: "AW GEEEEZ!! AWWW GEEEEZ!!! AWWW GEEEEEZ!!!"


 . . . as the PBP announcer is now trying to yell over Lapham, I'm often left going "WTF just happened? Was it intercepted? Did our guy drop the ball? Was a wide open big play thwarted by a batted down pass? Did they just miss a 1st down because the WR had to come back to get the ball?"

And now that I know it, I can't unhear it. As a person that has worked in broadcasting off and on for over 30 years, I've never seen any other color guy get away with that and still keep his job. I'll just classify him as "unique at his craft" and leave it at that.