Today's Links

• It's that time of the year. Rumors about the Sox wanting to move Bobby Jenks. You might need some heavy equipment.
• I was starting to wonder if the NBA season had started, but alas, here is your Noah, Tyrus Thomas playing time/lack of effort and focus story.
• A stunner! Pam Ward wins Awful Announcing's Pammy Award for 2008!
• Could the Blagojevich scandal impact the 2016 Olympic bid? Hopefully, the IOC loves that kind of stuff!
• The Blackhawks save Thanksgiving! Not really, because they were in Canada and their Thanksgiving is, I don't know, some other time. But this is a cool story.
• As Karma would have it, the Hawks won last night and Huet got the shutout. 21 days til the Winter Classic.
• Great fake news about Gary Danielson. Although aside from the hilarious term "Tebowner" I wouldn't doubt this could happen to Gary.

Gary Danielson Tries to Make SEC Football Unwatchable

This Saturday has been a fantastic day for football. Army-Navy early, USC-UCLA and the SEC Championship this afternoon and the Big 12 Title game to cap it off. However, for the last three years, one thing has made the SEC Championship game difficult to watch, or at least to listen to.

Gary Danielson has to be among the worst announcers in the country. It doesn't have a lot to do with his analysis or insights into the game. Danielson is awful because he is biased and has no shame in putting it on display.

Other networks show favor to some teams, like ESPN and the Yanks and Sox, and some announcers obviously love a particular team, like Vitale and Duke, but this is a whole new level of annoying favoritism and irresponsible broadcasting.

For two straight years, Danielson lobbied throughout the broadcast for the SEC's teams to get into the National Championship games. He would launch into long narratives about the merits of the SEC's teams over the other contenders. He was at it again this year saying things like "I'm not watching the National Championship game if Florida is not in it."

This year, the campaigning for Florida wasn't enough. Danielson had to throw in his endorsement of Tim Tebow for the Heisman Trophy. Telling voters to pay attention to Tebow and slurping the junior quarterback just about every chance he got. "How could you not get down the field fast after Tim Tebow pumped you up." Or after a fairly simple slant for a touchdown, "you can't do this stuff!" It was a damn five yard slant.

Look, Tebow is a great college quarterback and thrives in that offense, but we don't need to hear about it all game long. It's number one against number four. How about we focus on the game? Danielson's lobbying is getting so old and tiring and he really makes it impossible to listen to the game. Unless you're in Tim Tebow's family.