Hail to the Redskins...

...but beratement to ESPN's Sunday Night Football crew. Theisman, Patrick, and Maguire are like a trio of teenagers having a childish conversation with only a handful (and I'm being generous here) of insightful statements throughout each 3-hour broadcast they cover. In today's Wild Card game, they spent what seemed like 5 minutes questioning referee Mike Carey's decision to call an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Sean Taylor although they had no idea what was really said or done to cause the penalty. They began their useless banter even before the referee was finished making the call, so all three of them missed the clear announcement by Carey that Taylor was also ejected from the game; so they wasted an additional 2-3 minutes discussing why Taylor was out of the game after the play and later why he might be leaving the field.

This is of course just one example of the useless conversations from this group. I really like Sports Illustrated's Paul Zimmerman analogy that listening to them is "like sitting in a sports bar and trying to watch a game, and right near you are a bunch of noisy drunks. Hey, will you guys pipe down? I'm trying to watch a game."