![]() ![]() Of course, he’s best known for a playoff win that stamped arguably the greatest highlight in Vikings history with his voice (DIGGS! SIDELINE! TOUCHDOWN! UNBELIEVABLE!). Maybe you don’t like him because of all the losses he’s brought the Vikings, including playoff defeats in 2008, 20. Here’s the man you love to hate but really shouldn’t because he’s awfully good. Minnesota is presently on a two-game Michaels losing streak, including this year’s last-second loss at Seattle. Bank Stadium with a Week 2 win back in 2016. Their finest moments with Michaels likely came against the Green Bay Packers, where they clinched a division in primetime back in 2015 and christened U.S. Seattle ( the Blair Walsh Game) and 2019 at San Francisco. That didn’t stop Michaels, however, from calling three playoff losses: 2012 at Green Bay, 2015 vs. From 2009 to 2014, the Vikings were 1-7 with Michaels calling the game but have improved a bit since. The voice of Sunday Night Football has not brought the Vikings much success either. It’s been seven years since he announced a Vikings game. Since then, he’s called an overtime loss at Chicago and four relative blowouts, including Randy Moss’s first game back with the Vikings in New York. Another A-lister in Mike Tirico, the former voice of Monday Night Football and current understudy for Al Michaels at NBC, has brought the Vikings five straight losses going back to Brett Favre’s first game against the Green Bay Packers in 2009. We’re already learning a lesson about the Vikings: They haven’t performed very well on the big stage. He called their 34-27 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in London in 2013. The last time the Vikings won with Nantz on the mic, they had to go overseas. He called one of only three regular season losses in 2017 (at Carolina), a Thanksgiving Day heartbreaker at Detroit in 2016 and a Thursday night heartbreaker at Arizona in 2015. Jim Nantz has called six consecutive Vikings losses, most recently last year’s Week 4 debacle at Chicago. It has not gone well for the Vikings when CBS sends their A-team to cover their game. Without further ado, the announcer that brings the Vikings the worst luck is… #13 JIM NANTZ (CBS) Only the 13 announcers that have called five or more Vikings games of the last 200 made the initial rankings, but we’ll make sure to include the rest at the bottom of the story. We’ll start with the announcers with whom the Vikings are least successful and work our way up, highlighting some of their most notable calls along the way. How do the Vikings actually perform when a certain announcer is calling the game? There is OBVIOUSLY no correlation between the two, but who doesn’t enjoy in-depth research for the sake of facetiousness?īecause I have nothing better to do with the final day of 2020 (Did I mention nobody may ever read this?), I’ve pored over the last 200 Vikings games, identified the play-by-play announcer and compiled stats for each of the 27 voices that have broadcast their games since the final game of 2008. OK, you might not like how a broadcaster delivers a game, but that can be a subjective measure. They’ve ripped Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland for, well, any number of blunders on Monday Night Football broadcasts in 2018-19. ![]() They’ve trolled newbie Mike Goldberg, whose disastrous NFL broadcasting debut in 2014 included a call where Teddy Bridgewater threw a pass to Golden Tate (a member of the opposing Detroit Lions). Vikings fans over the years have fun at the expense of Joe Buck, who editorialized a comment about Randy Moss‘s end zone celebration in the 2004 Playoffs ( “That is a disgusting act!”). The play-by-play man or woman is the one assigned to paint an accurate, unbiased picture of the proceedings, and as you might expect, it’s hard to please everyone. He’ll be the 28th different play-by-play announcer to call a Vikings game nationally over the past 12 seasons.Ĭritiquing announcers tends to be a habit of most fans. With a Week 17 game that means nothing in the NFL playoff chase, FOX has assigned up-and-comer, Joe Davis, to broadcast the game. If you’re reading this, perhaps you’re a dork like the author who has an affinity for broadcast television nerd-dom and play-by-play announcers. ![]() Let’s get this out of the way right now: Nobody ever asked for this story to be written, and in all likelihood, nobody ever would have. ![]()
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