Announcer Rankings- Number 2!

The NFL Announcer Rankings continue with the top 2 teams.....


2) Joe Buck/Troy Aikman (FOX): My number two team goes to Buck and Aikman for various reasons. When you are the top announcing team, you always get the best regular season and playoff games. It definitely adds to your ranking to have all the best games each and every week. As a result of having those top matchups, the announcers can bring their best to the table each week. Trust me I watch every NFL game every Sunday. If you are doing Cowboys-Giants in December, the game will bring out the best performance from the announcers. If you are doing Lions-49ers in Week 16, it doesn't exactly have the same appeal and doesn't command the type of big time performance from an announcing crew. Anyway, Buck and Aikman are a very good NFL broadcast team. Joe Buck (Thanks, Dad) is a very good play-by-play announcer. He captures the moment, and he lets the game breath. He has become the voice of the NFL and MLB on FOX, so when he is doing a game, you know it is a marquee tilt. The thing that knocks Buck down a few notches is that he tries to inject his humor and persona to the game. That simply doesn't work because Buck isn't really funny (Did you see his debut of "Joe Buck Live" on HBO?), and he can get annoying because it seems like he wants to be part of the show. When he just sticks to the basics of calling the game, he does a very nice job. Aikman is a great compliment to Buck. Aikman has a smooth voice, and he does a really good job of analyzing the action. Unlike other analysts, he not only breaks down the QB position very well, but he has a good handle of the analysis of other positions. Overall, they are a very good tandem, but they are not the number 1 team.