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The Official “Bitch About FOX and their asstastic coverage of the World Cup” Thread

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It’s already begun with the ads they're running. It’s like they’re advertising for a monster truck rally or an MTV Rock n Jock game. Instead of playing it classy like Wimbledon or something it’s fucking “WORLD CUP!!!! NEYMAR AND MESSI AND ROCK MUSIC AND ROBOTS!!!! FOOOOOOX!!!!”

 

Fuckinf stupid.

Sure Derka. Because soccer is for the high minded crowd like MK who sniff their own farts at coffee shops and museums. Disregard the moats around the pitch and the air travel ban for much of the fan base.

It's going to be a complete clown show

Some of the ads are running together for me.  Is Fox the one that keeps running promos about how we're supposed to root for Mexico since the US is out?  F that.

It doesn't look like Sirius/XM is carrying ANY of the matches?  Seriously?  I'll be on the road for some early group matches, and I've enjoyed listening on the radio in the past.  Or am I missing something.....ANY radio coverage y'all know about?

I would have thought SiriusXMFC would have the games, but if not them then Fox Sports radio should have them.  I know that I listened to the U20 World Cup on my way to work on Fox last year.

4 minutes ago, IPoopOnWhoop said:

I would have thought SiriusXMFC would have the games, but if not them then Fox Sports radio should have them.  I know that I listened to the U20 World Cup on my way to work on Fox last year.

Shit, I'm reading that the ONLY radio -- in the whole country -- will be the spanish-language broadcast (I can listen in spanish, but they move fast enough that my spanish has a hard time keeping up).  I can listen via BBC, but I need to get a VPN hookup to do so.

Sometimes, this country sucks.

8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Shit, I'm reading that the ONLY radio -- in the whole country -- will be the spanish-language broadcast (I can listen in spanish, but they move fast enough that my spanish has a hard time keeping up).  I can listen via BBC, but I need to get a VPN hookup to do so.

 Sometimes, this country sucks.

Is the Hola Internet extension sufficient for the BBC? 

9 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

Just watch it on Univision

Even if your Spanish is shit, this is the answer.  They used to also be about 10 seconds ahead during the broadcast.  Not sure why, but I just assumed the nobody complained to the FCC when watching Spanish channels.

You may not understand the pregame show, but the dancing girls will be more informative than anything those fucks on Fox could provide anyway. 

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To say Fox is “sending” its team to Russia, however, is not quite right – and this is perhaps the biggest problem of all with how the network plans to cover the World Cup. Only four of the match-day commentators – John Strong, Stu Holden, JP Dellacamera and Tony Meola, seeing as no one asked – will actually be in situ for the matches they cover; the rest of the games, the vast bulk of them, will be called off regular camera feeds from a studio in Los Angeles. 

Cool...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/11/fox-sports-world-cup-coverage

I do laugh when they put the banner up that says Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar ......... Chicharito.

 

I’m not sure why anybody is surprised by this. The Simpsons already previewed how Fox soccer ads would be  

 

Really
I don’t see how anyone watching their champions league coverage (not including the sky sports game calling) for the past decade or so wouldn’t just be nodding their head?

Tony Meola called the 5-0 Liverpool-Porto CL semi-Final game like he was watching it at his own mom’s funeral. He’s somehow significantly worse than Lalas. 

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11 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

Their ads are garbage

 

God damn that shit is stupid.

All the people that bitched about Gus Johnson are reaping what they sewed

There's hope even if it's in espanol.

 

 

On 6/12/2018 at 12:21 AM, WBT said:

All the people that bitched about Gus Johnson are reaping what they sewed

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Sowed.

 

And not sure what you talked about - he would have been just another shitty play by play man for Fox.

2 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

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Sowed.

 

And not sure what you talked about - he would have been just another shitty play by play man for Fox.

Well that's embarrassing.

And I thought it was obvious that the Gus Johnson thing was a joke.  He was terrible calling Champions League.

ESPN had a nice poll of the top 50 players in the World Cup.  Falcao made the cut.

Any way to stream the games on an iPad like ESPN's Watch app?

1 minute ago, C-Man said:

Any way to stream the games on an iPad like ESPN's Watch app?

Fox Sports Go app?  (as long as you have a TV subscription)

11 minutes ago, MoJames said:

ESPN had a nice poll of the top 50 players in the World Cup.  Falcao made the cut.

Salah is #7 behind Kane and Suarez. All bets are off.

 

Pogba is #20. I'm guessing they don't actually watch soccer.

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Mark Followill will be calling 7 or 8 group play matches. He’s the Mavericks play by play guy (and same for FC Dallas). 

Dude started out doing Tickers at The Ticket.   Good for him. 

Well that's embarrassing.
And I thought it was obvious that the Gus Johnson thing was a joke.  He was terrible calling Champions League.


My bad. There are people around here that would enjoy Gus’s Johnson. If you know what I mean.
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"There Goes My Hero" as the opening montage music. Yep, it's FOX.

On ‎6‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 12:10 PM, mdmost said:

There's hope even if it's in espanol.

 

 

I can't wait for the angry racist tweets when rednecks actually stumble across hearin' Spanish on NBCSN.

24 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

"There Goes My Hero" as the opening montage music. Yep, it's FOX.

Timely choice. I guess the rights to Smashmouth were too expensive.

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FOX just referred to Spain vs Portugal as "a Top 10 matchup." Never heard a soccer game described like that before. 

On 6/10/2018 at 11:24 PM, Goo Punch said:

It’s already begun with the ads they're running. It’s like they’re advertising for a monster truck rally or an MTV Rock n Jock game. Instead of playing it classy like Wimbledon or something it’s fucking “WORLD CUP!!!! NEYMAR AND MESSI AND ROCK MUSIC AND ROBOTS!!!! FOOOOOOX!!!!”

 

Fuckinf stupid.

Soccer isnt classy.  In the UK it's the working class sport.  The Wimbledon crowd watched rugby.

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Also the stupid narrator to their robotic commercial keeps procoincing Iceland as ICE•LAND. Amateur.

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1 minute ago, ScottishHorn said:

Soccer isnt classy.  In the UK it's the working class sport.  The Wimbledon crowd watched rugby.

Don't treat the World Cup like it's Monday Night RAW. This isn't wrestling or American tackle football- the best teams and best players have class and style; it's not about big hits and bright lights and explosions...well it's not supposed to be anyway, but it is now that it's on FOX.

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Every FOX promo presupposes that nobody who's watching has ever heard of any of the teams, players, or the sport itself. 

2 minutes ago, GabrielsHorn said:

Did FoxSportsGo change their website? Can't get the stream to work.

 

Try the stream on Telemundo.com

works great plus you get to hear “gooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaalllll”

Good thing they brought a clown in to explain VAR calls. Completes the goat rodeo.

His accent is bad but at least he acts like a clown to balance it out

This is awful. 

Only caught the last 10 minutes of Peru-Denmark, but that was about as much as I can stand of that commentator..  He is so, so bad.  Just like he was in the last tournament with FOX.  How did they keep him on their crew?

 

Definitely going to Telemundo for the rest of his games. 

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