NFL Conference Championship Sunday: Blake Bortles' Date With Destiny

I'm not sure if that is really why Nantz fawns over the Patriots so much, but I honestly didn't realize how much smaller Jacksonville is compared to even Pittsburgh, which is 23rd.

 

Will Nantz give Bortles more than one question if the Jags do win?

 

Nantz' "fawning" over the Patriots is the same as Joe Buck's "fawning" over the Yankees.

 

Would be right up there with Detroit native Jerome Bettis playing in the Super Bowl. In Detroit!

 

playthrough, you're addressing the poster who used to get pissed when somebody would dare suggest anybody on the Patriots was injury prone.

 

It's perception.
Nantz "loves" whoever he's covering. Since CBS does the AFC, that's half the league. He only covers the "big" game each week, so that narrows it to a few teams.
-Patriots
-Whoever Peyton was playing for
-Steelers

That's it.
I used to HATE Joe Buck, thinking he was pro-Yankee, anti-Red Sox. It took several years - and a couple Sox titles to make me stop being a conspiracy freak - to realize it seemed like that because for quite a few years, Buck would do Yankee-Red Sox games and the Yankees would win.
Nantz has a soft spot for whoever is in first. He does it with golf and basketball. The perception of it only gets magnified by the fact he's done seven Pats games this year, but six in the last nine weeks.

 

I never understood why people care about this, and I don't even think it's true. Are you not going to a Superbowl party because Jacksonville will be playing instead of the Patriots?

 

I think people would love game equal to last Sunday's Vikings vs. 53rd largest TV market.

With the exception of Tom Brady, you could have every member of the Texans put on Patriots jerseys for the Super Bowl (with Patriots' players names on the back), and a large percentage of viewers would never know the difference.

It's laundry and "storylines" and not what actually goes on between the sidelines.

 

Pot. Kettle.
Watch a replay of the AFC Championship game from last year. Nantz tongue-bathes them both pretty good in the first half.
You can usually pinpoint when a game turns based on when Nantz stops talking about a team.

I wish CBS would dump him for Ian Eagle, who IMO is better but gets brought down on his broadcasts by Dan Fouts, who should have his HoF jacket taken from him for the stupidity that comes out of his mouth.