FOX NFL Sunday has won its share of acclaim. The show has taken home more than 20 Emmy Awards and in 2019 was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. That doesn’t impress Gregg Giannotti though.
He criticized the show on Monday’s edition of Boomer and Gio on WFAN and CBS Sports Network, saying the show has largely been the same since its debut.
“If you had a VHS tape from 1995 and popped it in with that FOX pregame show, it’s almost the same exact thing!” he said. “Howie Long looks exactly the same. Terry Bradshaw’s still mumbling bumbling. They’re just standing around.”
It sounds like that standing around is what really gets under Gio’s skin. He seems to be even more frustrated by it as the cast of FOX NFL Sunday grows.
“FOX has, it looks like, a family reunion. They added Gronk and Sean Payton to the fifty guys they already have. Then they just sit there and they stand around and they sway back and forth. I don’t understand. What is that?”
Giannotti said that he feels like he has been watching the same people “loiter for like 30 years”. He suggested perhaps the predicability could be broken up by having different groups stationed in different places around the studio similar to what NBC does with the cast of Football Night in America. He would welcome anything that changes up FOX NFL Sunday.
“I know exactly what I’m gonna get from that thing every single time.”
