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Yeah...I laughed when he said that. I mean...really?

I thought I misheard him until you guys quoted him here. "Surely he wouldn't have said that, he must have said something else," I thought.

That's amazing. Openly slamming one of the teams from the booth while you're calling the game.

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Cal might one day be a decent broadcaster, but cutting his teeth in the booth on the nationally broadcast playoffs was not a good idea. He'd be fine in a pre- and post-game roundtable type of deal, with a mid-game check-in, but he's not ready for the booth, IMO. Maybe if he starts doing some guest spots when Palmer takes time off, he'll eventually be good there.

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I agree, but the whole Tex error thing was almost embarrassing, even as just a regular announcer....I mean cross-cut grass to dirt bounces caused the error?

Agreed on the lack of power, temp's dropped and we lost our muscle....

The sadder part was right as he was saying that, they had the slow-mo feed of the ball rolling right at Tex w/ no spin whatsoever.

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I agree, but the whole Tex error thing was almost embarrassing, even as just a regular announcer....I mean cross-cut grass to dirt bounces caused the error?

Agreed on the lack of power, temp's dropped and we lost our muscle....

The ball literally did not change trajectory. I think he Texeira THOUGHT it was going to... but it didn't.

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