Pam Ward

Boom_70 · Dec 28, 2009

I would like to hear a conversation between Pam Ward, Doris Burke and Mary Carillo

finishthehat · Dec 28, 2009

CitizenTino said:

SportsJournalists.com may or may not like Pam Ward.

Pam Ward, on the other hand, does NOT like injured players holding up the game:
http://deadspin.com/5435559/pam-ward-is-frustrated-with-this-damn-injured-marshall-player
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A phrase I could live without, from this clip: "A Flomax bowl update."

apeman33 · Dec 28, 2009

Boom_70 said:

I would like to hear a conversation between Pam Ward, Doris Burke and Mary Carillo
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Solid. And now that I think about it, it would be pretty difficult to tell them apart. I think I'd be able to pick out Burke of the three.

As for Ward, when I listen to her, I don't think I'm having either a better or worse experience watching the game than I do with most p-b-p'ers. She does her job well. She doesn't start shouting for no reason. And there isn't any sort of "look at/listen to me" vibe that you feel with some others.

The Big Ragu · Dec 28, 2009

Yodel said:

The Big Ragu said:

Elliotte Friedman said:

Fail to understand why starting a thread on Pam Ward is a bad thing. This is what we do for a living -- we critique people. Sometimes we have to take it ourselves.

As for Ward, simply don't hear her enough to make an informed judgement.
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I agree. And I disagree. This has been at least the third Pam Ward thread in the last few years on here. Why does SHE garner so much attention? And if you google Pam Ward, you find some pretty nasty fanboi critiques that wreak of misogyny.

I suspect this has more to do with her gender -- even if it is subconscious -- than it has anything to do with her broadcasting abilities, because frankly she is not that bad. She is low-key, puts the game before herself and is at the least a competent play-by-play person.

I see enough of Pam Ward to have an opinion. She does a really good low-key p-b-p, in my opinion, gets down and distance right and describes what is happening on the field very well without making herself the focus of the game. My only minor critique would be that she very occasionally (and it does not characterize her for the most part) trips over words and makes a mistake; usually something she immediately realizes and corrects. That can be said of A LOT of p-b-p people, though.

She is a solid broadcaster, in my opinion, and if I was going to rip on the current crop of college football broadcasters, no way she would make my list -- How couldn't you start with the three-man booth that includes mush-mouth slobbernocker Lou Holtz? Why would you focus on Pam Ward, who is solid, and not the overly bombastic Mike Patrick? How can't you put Bill Curry -- wrong and in your face for most of the game -- at the top of the list? I have yet to see any threads on here randomly started about them. So why Pam Ward?
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Curry doesn't broadcast anymore. He's at Georgia State, simultaneously building and destroying the new football program.
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I stand corrected. I'll GLADLY replace him with Rod Gilmore for the sake of my argument.

Yodel · Dec 28, 2009

The Big Ragu said:

Yodel said:

The Big Ragu said:

Elliotte Friedman said:

Fail to understand why starting a thread on Pam Ward is a bad thing. This is what we do for a living -- we critique people. Sometimes we have to take it ourselves.

As for Ward, simply don't hear her enough to make an informed judgement.
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I agree. And I disagree. This has been at least the third Pam Ward thread in the last few years on here. Why does SHE garner so much attention? And if you google Pam Ward, you find some pretty nasty fanboi critiques that wreak of misogyny.

I suspect this has more to do with her gender -- even if it is subconscious -- than it has anything to do with her broadcasting abilities, because frankly she is not that bad. She is low-key, puts the game before herself and is at the least a competent play-by-play person.

I see enough of Pam Ward to have an opinion. She does a really good low-key p-b-p, in my opinion, gets down and distance right and describes what is happening on the field very well without making herself the focus of the game. My only minor critique would be that she very occasionally (and it does not characterize her for the most part) trips over words and makes a mistake; usually something she immediately realizes and corrects. That can be said of A LOT of p-b-p people, though.

She is a solid broadcaster, in my opinion, and if I was going to rip on the current crop of college football broadcasters, no way she would make my list -- How couldn't you start with the three-man booth that includes mush-mouth slobbernocker Lou Holtz? Why would you focus on Pam Ward, who is solid, and not the overly bombastic Mike Patrick? How can't you put Bill Curry -- wrong and in your face for most of the game -- at the top of the list? I have yet to see any threads on here randomly started about them. So why Pam Ward?
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Curry doesn't broadcast anymore. He's at Georgia State, simultaneously building and destroying the new football program.
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I stand corrected. I'll GLADLY replace him with Rod Gilmore for the sake of my argument.
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Your point was fair, just thought it was worth pointing out that he was no longer doing the announcing job.

Flying Headbutt · Dec 28, 2009

Jesse Palmer and Lou Holtz are far worse. And that Matt Millen is now on more broadcasts than ever is beyond absurd.

Big Circus · Dec 15, 2014

Ace said:

Mystery Meat II said:

Typical. You think all Pams look the same.
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That's true. You've seen one Pam, you've seen them all.
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This I cannot abide.

zagoshe · Dec 28, 2009

Flying Headbutt said:

Jesse Palmer and Lou Holtz are far worse. And that Matt Millen is now on more broadcasts than ever is beyond absurd.
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Well he can give great insight on building solid franchises.

HorseWhipped · Dec 29, 2009

Pam Ward is fine.
And she knows how to work a game.

I especially like how she can work a game with a dumbass by her side in the booth, and I have watched that with more than a few guys by her side. She earns respect for that and more.

If you're going online to bitch about Pam Ward,
you've got a lot more problems than Pam Ward.

Blitz · Dec 29, 2009

I dogged Pam out a few years ago on this board, but I'm through, hopefully, ragging on her ilk.
Personally, I just don't want to hear a woman doing play-by-play for football I'm watching.
That's just me.
Does Pam Ward understand the game? Yes.

HorseWhipped · Dec 29, 2009

Also, who cares if Pam Ward sounds like a guy?
She's not a guy, and her voice is fine anyway.

Lou Holtz sounds like my grandmother.
And Grandma has been dead four years now.

You wanna talk bad announcers? Sean McDonough.
Never any emotion. Even in a big game.

HorseWhipped · Dec 29, 2009

Blitz said:

I dogged Pam out a few years ago on this board, but I'm through, hopefully, ragging on her ilk.
Personally, I just don't want to hear a woman doing play-by-play for football I'm watching.
That's just me.
Does Pam Ward understand the game? Yes.
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Personally, I think you're a Moran.

But that's just me, mkay?

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