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If I have one complaint about Quint.. by flanner96

...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.