Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen teamed for their first Super Bowl broadcast Sunday night, with the pair garnering mostly positive reviews. 98.5 The Sports Hub’s Rich Shertenlieb wasn’t critical, but he wasn’t as high on the broadcast as others.
On Monday’s edition of Toucher & Rich, Shertenlieb said the broadcast lacked the gravitas of previous championship games.
“It didn’t feel like a Super Bowl,” Shertenlieb said. “They didn’t do a bad job, but it was just background noise. It did feel like a 1:00 PM game, but they weren’t annoying. I thought it was fine. When you hear Joe Buck’s voice, or Al Michaels … and it’s not their fault, it just felt flat.”
Shertenlieb then pointed out that the FOX NFL Sunday studio crew is getting older, pointing out Jimmy Johnson said on the air the Eagles would win by three, while the graphic said he believed they’d win by seven. Michael Strahan pointed it out, which Shertenlieb took issue with.
“Why does Strahan gotta be a dick? That’s on Strahan. Come on, man! Why you gotta call out Jimmy Johnson like that? Half the people wouldn’t have even noticed … let the faceless, nameless graphics guy take the fall on this one and let Jimmy Johnson keep a little bit of his credibility and integrity intact. He must have pissed Strahan off, off camera.”
Shertenlieb then defended FOX NFL Sunday member Terry Bradshaw after his joking with Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid. Bradshaw caught heat after telling Reid to “waddle over here” after calling him “the big guy” before an interview, and concluded by saying “have a cheeseburger on us and enjoy your Hawaiian shirts”.
The Toucher & Rich host said people simply don’t understand that the two are friends, and it was a reference to Reid saying he was going to “eat a big cheeseburger” after winning his first Super Bowl.
