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Originally Posted by mikephoen
Waaaaay back in the 80s when I was a kid, we had an 'illegal' satellite dish and we watched all sorts of out of market games back then. If you knew which satellite to tune into (a lot of trial and error to find these) you could get the 'raw' feeds that had no commercials. On many of these you could hear the announcers talking the whole time when it went to commercial. It's been too many years for me to remember the names any more, but I remember there were a couple guys in the booth who just hated each other. They would spend the whole commercial break ripping into each other for mistakes they made or whatever. Then it would come back from break and you would think they were best friends!
I remember another broadcast where the cameraman would spend the commercial breaks scanning the crowd for hot women and the guys would 'rate' them and commend or show their disdain for the cameraman's choices. The things they said would definitely get them fired these days.
Most of the time is was just boring technical stuff between the broadcasters and the tech guys. One guy did a series of vocal exercises quite often. Occasionally they would talk about the game, but I remember thinking at the time that it didn't even seem like they cared about what was going on most of the time.
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We watched the raw feeds too. This has been going on for decades. I can't remember names either, but I've heard a guy tell the other one he had to take a quick piss. They will also set up the replay packages. It was quite entertaining to watch them realize that they had called a play wrong and then set up the package so that it most resembled the play they called, instead of just say they got it wrong (like on a penalty).
They would talk about their wives, all sorts of stuff. We watched the raw feeds because the chatter was often better than commercials.