If I have one complaint about Quint..
by flanner96 (2024-04-01 11:50:32)

In reply to: Quint loves everything about ND.  posted by RagingBull


...and really every other top color announcer going back to Leif Elsmo, it's that in their zealousness to grow the sport (which, is a good thing) they tend to over-exaggerate everything and make each play into the Most Important Thing Ever. And I think sometimes that can rub fans the wrong way when Quint or Carc or Mark Dixon or Leif were talking about the opponents.

Not every call of a roll dodge by a Virginia second-line middie needs to feel like Superman just launched a 300 MPH missile through a zombie horde and a goalie made of titanium.

This exaggeration has gotten better over the years, as more and more lax games show up on cable/streaming, but it still crops up.