49ers-Texans Week 7 Announcing Crew

by David Fucillo on Oct 20, 2009 4:00 PM PDT in San Francisco 49ers News

The 49ers sent out their weekly game release and the Fox crew for this Sunday's 49ers-Texans matchup will be the #4 crew of Chris Myers and Brian Billick.

While I'm not a big fan of Chris Myers, I do enjoy the musings of Brian Billick. This crew covered the 49ers-Seahawks battle in week 2 and heading into the game some folks were not all that excited about having Billick providing color commentary. However, I've always found Billick to be pretty solid. He might be a bit arrogant, but he knows his stuff and he seems to provide especially useful insight.

I'm curious about announcers that are looking to eventually get back into coaching (or get into it for the first time). Brian Billick and Jon Gruden are two perfect examples (Gruden probably more so). On the one hand, you probably don't want to be ruffling too many feathers. Additionally, they know/expect/think announcing isn't a long term gig so it would seem to be easy to be looking ahead to that second job. On the other hand, you've got these competitive individuals who one would imagine don't want to come off as second-rate so they prepare to be the best they can be. Additionally, they haven't been tainted by the network like many long time announcers tend to be.

So I guess I'm curious whether being fired as a coach (or even some recently retired players) make for better announcers? Or is it like anything else where if you have enough of them, some will be good and some will be bad?

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The last time Brian Billick announced the 49ers game

he used the word “proverbial” about 6 times in the first half, often times incorrectly.

my cousin and i got noah lowry's autograph after he came out of a porta-potty. he was nice about it.

by hubert on Oct 20, 2009 4:05 PM PDT reply actions

:-(

Billick is horrible and Myers is boring.

FIRE BRUCE BOCHY NOW!!!!!!
AND TAKE BRIAN SABEAN WITH HIM!!!!!

by 49er16 on Oct 20, 2009 4:41 PM PDT reply actions

Nessler, Jaworski, Vermiel...

Best booth I have heard in years, and it was only for one game. =(

Well, we're waiting....

by drummer on Oct 20, 2009 5:31 PM PDT reply actions

I like Billick, love Gruden

Myer’s pretty harmless.

by Bob In Beaverton on Oct 20, 2009 6:38 PM PDT reply actions

You like Gruden?

He just licks Favre’s nuts every chance he gets.

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

by SportsChicken on Oct 20, 2009 6:47 PM PDT up reply actions

and talks about the wildcat as much as possible

Go 49ers

by iaalexeeff on Oct 20, 2009 7:39 PM PDT up reply actions

Billick better than Daryl Johnston

Hey, at least we don’t have to listen to that [site decorum] again. Singletary coached under Billick so at least we won’t have to listen to complete biased announcing. It’s not a bad combo.

Fooch, maybe this would be a good weekend to check out the announcing on the Sprint Mobile gamecast

by Drew Kerr on Oct 20, 2009 8:11 PM PDT reply actions

Or maybe it will be biased

but at least in our favor haha

by Drew Kerr on Oct 20, 2009 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions

It was Thom Brennaman with Billick for the Seattle game

And I agree, I too like Billick. Certainly better than Aikman and a host of others. Mike Sando listed this as Fox’s #4 crew as they have shifted announcing teams due to the baseball playoffs. So we’d have someone better than Myers if not for baseball.

Chris Myers is horrible. Way worse than Buck. I think we all will be bored to anger by him even if the Niners win 42-0 and Crabtree breaks a rookie receiving record. He’s that bad.

You gotta bring ass to get ass.

by SpurredOn on Oct 20, 2009 8:19 PM PDT reply actions

Myers has mailed in the last 10 years of his career

by bignerd on Oct 20, 2009 8:21 PM PDT up reply actions

I want to hear Frank Caleindo

be the color guy for just one game…it would be like having 20 diff guys in the booth at once. Even though I think some of his impersonations are waaaayyyy off the mark (i.e. His Charles Barkley), it would provide some entertainment at least. He’s around enough football to at least somewhat know what he’s talking about.

Fox has some of the worst announcing crews for sure. There may be one crew thats bearable, but as a majority I really do not enjoy listening to any of them.

by Drew Kerr on Oct 20, 2009 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions

Yep - CBS kicks their butt in broadcasting depth

And with the AFC having been the better conference the past decade, the only thing saving Fox is that they have the old NFL franchises in the huge markets.

You gotta bring ass to get ass.

by SpurredOn on Oct 20, 2009 9:18 PM PDT up reply actions

All the guys calling the pro game are pretty bad

Michaels and Collingsworth offend me less than anyone. The MNF guys should be bannished to Mars with their lips sewn up.

I’ve started watching more college ball this year and one thing I really enjoy is the announcers. A) they focus on the game and B) they don’t feel the need to worship the players.

by nsniners on Oct 21, 2009 3:01 AM PDT reply actions

Never Listen

For the most part I never listen to the announcers! I watch the 49er games on base at club called J.R. Rockers, They have one game on their speakers which is whatever game is showing on their big screen projection system, which is pretty fuzzy to start with! The club manager, which I could care less for, always has one of like 4 teams on that he likes to watch. So I usually sit in the same place at one end of the bar with the 49ers game on, but don’t get to hear the game. But I can guarantee you this; everyone in there can hear me whenever anything happens in a niner game!

11-5... My 49ers pre-season prediction!

by Ten-Man on Oct 21, 2009 6:42 AM PDT reply actions