02-20-2019, 05:00 PM
If there's anything about Hobson's style that puts me off is his insistence on writing fluff pieces with little to no redeeming qualities. Does anyone really care that player X's great, great grandpappy once had an affair with someone else's great great granny which lead to a team that accomplished squat?
Perhaps I'm exaggerating a bit there, but Hobson tends to put out plenty of useless fluff. He's far from alone in that though. Good, talented sports writers (and announcers) are a rare breed so teams tend to settle for someone who can write (or broadcast) fluff just in time for their deadlines. The days of having a generational talent the likes of Waite Hoyte seem to be over. Waite Hoyte (baseball of course which isn't that different from football as far as on air talent goes) had a special flair to get people to specially tune in to listen during a rain delay. It was said of Hoyte that people would pray for a rain delay just to listen to Hoyte's stories..
Perhaps I'm exaggerating a bit there, but Hobson tends to put out plenty of useless fluff. He's far from alone in that though. Good, talented sports writers (and announcers) are a rare breed so teams tend to settle for someone who can write (or broadcast) fluff just in time for their deadlines. The days of having a generational talent the likes of Waite Hoyte seem to be over. Waite Hoyte (baseball of course which isn't that different from football as far as on air talent goes) had a special flair to get people to specially tune in to listen during a rain delay. It was said of Hoyte that people would pray for a rain delay just to listen to Hoyte's stories..
In the immortal words of my old man, "Wait'll you get to be my age!"
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.