In defense of college football announcers

Repeat after me: “The announcers are not biased against my team.”

John I. Carney
4 min readSep 1, 2022

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Marianne O’Leary, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Every year, there are two or three people on my Facebook feed whom I am tempted to unfollow — not unfriend, just unfollow for a few months — because of their constant game-day whining about how the announcers are biased against their team.

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John I. Carney

Author of “Dislike: Faith and Dialogue in the Age of Social Media,” available at http://www.lakeneuron.com/dislike