> And when I watch the Super Bowl I have *no* idea
> in the slightest what is going on, but I don't
> expect the commentators to dumb it down and
> alienate the sports proper fans to cater for the
> uninformed viewers.
Does the Super Bowl take up 3 hours of terrestrial daytime weekend television nearly every fortnight though?
> If you are going to dumb down football to "putting
> the round thing in the cuboid" then F1 can be
> dumbed down to "driving round some roads faster
> than the others". Suddenly F1 doesn't seem to have
> as many factors to it, does it?
There are a simple set of rules to football, and nearly all of it is ALL under human control.
Formula 1 is not, is it? We wish it was, but it's not, and that's why a little dumbing down is neccesary, for people who would think 'Well WHY is he 3 seconds off the pace in the same car? he must be S**T'. You and I would both be able to give a reason for that, but someone who has flicked through the 5 terrestrial channels and decided to watch the F1 would not.
THAT is why F1 commentary needs to appeal to all sorts of people, fans and non-fans. Legard BORES fans, and doesn't interest the common viewer. Allen amused fans and welcomed the common viewer.
And here's my counter-video. Martin afterwards demonstrates how much he preffered working with Allen. Instead of just saying 'um, yeah' or correcting one of Legard's increasingly common mistakes, he takes on what Allen has said and is probably about to tell us fans something we can relate to.
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edit: buggered up my embedding but yeah.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/06/2010 01:54AM by superchargednut.