Social media criticizing Gary Danielson for CBS broadcast of Tennessee at Georgia
There are few things you can count on in life, but one of them during football season is fans criticizing CBS broadcaster Gary Danielson. This week, it was during the Tennessee-Georgia game on the “SEC on CBS.”
Tennessee fans especially focused on Danielson misidentifying Vols players. They also thought Danielson was biased toward Georgia, and didn’t understand certain penalties, such as a penalty just before Tennessee’s second touchdown of the game. One Tennessee fan tweeted that he hoped the Vols don’t play another CBS game in order to avoid hearing Danielson.
Each week, it’s something that routinely brings together otherwise opposing fan bases around the league to agree on the same thing.
One fan summarized it all this way: “His commentary is dated, his views are biased, and his voices makes me want to turn off the tv. Get rid of him.”
Here’s a sampling of some first-half reaction toward the broadcaster SEC fans love to hate:
@CBSSports what does Gary Danielson have on you? The guy is the worst announcer on tv to date. His commentary is dated, his views are biased, and his voices makes me want to turn off the tv. Get rid of him.
— Brian Allen (@brianallen0317) October 10, 2020
Gary Danielson is the worst commentator in college football. Dude never knows wtf is going on but still manages to never shut tf up about it.
— Chris P. (@TrillScottP) October 10, 2020
“remember the yard line is on TV but they can’t see it out there!” brand new information coming from gary danielson
— lacey (@dddrop_the_lace) October 10, 2020
Illegal Motion you idiots GARY DANIELSON IS AN IDIOT
— Jay (@SimStrength) October 10, 2020
@CBSSports Seriously, uncontrolled bias in a sportscaster like Gary Danielson is unattractive and irritating. Clean up your act and your house.
— Alan Sherrod (@alansherrod) October 10, 2020
Someone explain to Gary Danielson the difference between a false start and illegal motion
— Quizza (@JoeQuizza) October 10, 2020
Thank you Gary Danielson for telling me that the refs can’t see the first down line we see on TV
— Brandon (@colebrandon22) October 10, 2020
Can we send Gary Danielson back to the Big 10? Surely there’s a former SEC guy that can handle color comments.
— JK2 (@JohnKTN) October 10, 2020
You know it’s a CBS game when the 1st quarter isn’t over and you’re already tired of hearing Gary Danielson
— Nathanael Rutherford (@Mr_Rutherford) October 10, 2020
Vols could be up 30-0 and Gary Danielson would still find a way to be up Georgia’s ass the entire game.
— greg (@_greggins_) October 10, 2020
I had to mute the TV when #garydanielson called @wanyamorris64 Kanye Morris @SEConCBS you need better announcers
— A new year, means more sacrifices #Valhalla awaits (@captameowica711) October 10, 2020
I’m just gonna play rocky top non stop so I don’t haveta listen to @CBSSports #garydanielson
— weathergirl (@kngsport) October 10, 2020
Somebody tell Gary Danielson that an illegal motion penalty does not result in the play being blow dead
— Brandon Cyprien (@brandoncyp) October 10, 2020
Did Gary Danielson not get recruited by UT out of high school? Even when something goes good…negative talk
— Cameron “Jammer” Strickland (@JamStrickland) October 10, 2020
I hope we win this game just so Gary Danielson has to talk about it. He LOVES Georgia. Loves them.
— Chase White (@chase_white10) October 10, 2020
Gary Danielson brings such great analysis to the games such as “big, huge play.” Gtf outta here.
— Brandon Brewer (@Mustard_Tyga) October 10, 2020
Gary Danielson’s hate for Tennessee is something else https://t.co/SjVU1OXKmc
— zach ragan (@zachTNT) October 10, 2020
Dude I hope Gary Danielson can meet his hero, Stetson Bennett the fourth, after this game. He just idolizes the kid.
— Kylee 🧡 (@hinesk35) October 10, 2020
I hope we don’t play another CBS game simply because of Gary Danielson.
— LawCoVol (@js_hannah) October 10, 2020
Tennessee fans, Georgia fans, Kentucky fans, Alabama fans, Auburn fans, all fans. We stand in agreement that Gary Danielson absolutely sucks.
— Will Kirkp@rick🤙🏼 (@chickenfriedwk) October 10, 2020
Georgia fans saying Gary Danielson is bias against them. Tennessee fans screaming the same. Maybe it’s just y’all #TENNvsUGA
— Smash Adams (@SA_SportsGuy) October 10, 2020
I bet Georgia’s radio broadcast is less biased than Gary Danielson. Could you be more obvious?
— Straw Hat Jefe 2 (@Ya_Boy_Jefe) October 10, 2020
Anyone that thinks this is bad will be losing their minds if he announces the UT Bama game. He will be sukin the tide off the whooooooole time
Idk how any TN fan is watching this broadcast it’s so unbelievably biased. “Just to be clear it’s a touchdown because he had possession and got a foot down in the end one?” -Gary Danielson
:-)
I guess they can blame him as well as they can blame anyone else.
True.
Word of advice: mute the tv and turn on your team’s radio broadcast. Yeah, I know it’s not exactly in sync, but I’d rather listen to Eli Gold 15 seconds ahead of what’s on tv than listen to Danielson. He’s an idiot.
I tried that. I watched the game on my OTA thinking the “live” radio broadcast would be fully synchronized with the game. The radio broadcast was a full play and a half behind the live game. That was especially irritating when I could see the Vol network booth right beside the CBS booth. It seems crazy in this age of technology the two couldn’t be synched. I even went back to try watching on my streaming service. Again, completely out of synch, so I was forced to listen to the two worst announcers in college football.
Download the Tunein app. You can pause the broadcast to allow the TV to catch up. It’s glorious. 5$ per month during the football season…well worth it.
Ever thought about the idea that TV pays the conferences to keep the team broadcast slower than action on the field? I mean, Finebaum (and most radio call in shows) has a 7-second delay so they can hit the mute button. Just a thought.
It’s broadcast TV. They have a built in delay to avoid obscenity being broadcast. They’ll get fined by the FCC otherwise.
So, is this delay how the announcers look like coaching geniuses? If I had a dollar for every time one of these talking heads correctly predicted some obscure play, or timely insight, I wouldn’t have to work anymore.
Surely the media wouldn’t play me that way…
Someone please explain to this UT fan how the 7 second delay works…because he clearly doesn’t get it
Model, if you think Danielson is smart enough to watch a game and delay 15 seconds to comment on it you seem like the exact type of person that should love listening to him.
I never listen to CBS.
Hey, does anybody else miss Ron Franklin and Mike Gottfried calling the ESPN Saturday night games? Dr. Jerry Punch on the sidelines (and sometimes Adrian Karsten). That was a GREAT game crew.
I will certainly agree with that. Even when I did not have a team involved, was still great to listen to them
Why do people always criticize announcers? If anything, the critics on social media are ingrates.
Agree. Gary Danielson is an unpaid volunteer and we should appreciate him trying hard even if he’s always wrong.
Danielson is renting space for free in the SEC brain. Get a grip. You come off as spoiled moaners.
Why don’t you go back to the Big14. You know, the conference that cares more about the players health than money. When did the geniuses in the Big14 cure myocarditis? Are you enjoying football this year?
Hey darth get a clue. I don’t answer for the BIG anymore than you do for the zero D SEC.
At least the SEC is playing.
Hey, don’t be so hard on Danielson – he messes up EVERY team’s names! He’s an idiot and never saw a good Gamecock play that didn’t have a penalty! I’ve heard that people will have their own personal hell. I try to be as good as possible so I don’t spend eternity listening to play by play by the human blackboard screech, Beth Howling, followed by the color man, Gary!
Just like I said. Just wait for next week. Gary gonna have the biggest gasm announcing uga and bama. What a joke..
as a Dawg fan this is hilarious because we always feel the same thing. Maybe it’s just Gary. Actually today I thought I heard him going out of his way to say a few positive things about GA, which he never does. Hearing Vol fans say this makes me think the guy just has a way of getting under the skin.
Go DAWGS! Bennett is the man. He has earned his chance the hardest way. Waiting in backup forever, goes back to community College, gets back to UGA and then steps up BIG!!!
I DONT CARE WHO YOU ARE, THATS AWESOME FOOTBALL.
Well thank God I found this web page because 1st I live in Pennsylvania and a loyal volunteers fan and I don’t get much info on the sec only what espn of fox sports decides to show but I’m extra greatfull to see other people hate Gary Danielson he is horrendous between him and Tony Romo makes me hate watching a game on cbs
Tony Romo?
I agree, Romo is wildly overrated. He never shuts up, he mumbles, he trails off.
Yeah he “predicts” a play every now and then.
Join the club.
Herbstreit gives him a run for the money. I wonder if Kirk’s wife knows he cheats on her with dabo.
Herbie’s two(2) kids at Clemson has turned him orange.
Nah, they moved to Nashville so she has all the cowboy musicians she can handle while Kirk’s in South Carolina. (Kidding! I’m kidding. I have no idea who she is).
Easy . . . pause your television broadcast for a minute and then hit play.
Agree with the sentiments. I could barely tolerate him when Vern was still around. Now? My wife & I blare heavy metal during games just to drown that homer out. (Funny, but every time they show Bama’s offense, we’re blastin’ Annihilator’s “King of the Kill”…)
Complaining here about any sports personality that does not work for SDS is about as useful as complaining about the weather.
If you truly want change, write a snail mail letter to CBS Sports and explain that you must watch the ABC game rather than the CBS game solely because you cannot tolerate a certain announcer.
For every 1 letter a network gets, the executives understand that there are about 1,000 other people that have the same belief. 500 letters mean a half million people have that view.
As for Ron Franklin, he made on-air statements almost as politically incorrect as Thom Brennaman made in Cincinnati. Those statements were not his first issues with female talent, and he made one major derogatory comment against a personal friend of mine, calling her an “a-hole.”
Maybe she’s an a-hole, ever consider that?
Guys whether you like of dislike Gary Danielson…he’s gonna be doing CBS games till 2023 when the contract expires. Seems to me his biggest detractors are the staff at SDS for continually posting these articles.
2001 UGA-UT had some biased announcing.
After UT scored the late go-ahead TD, the announcers basically had an orgasm on air. “Unbelievable!” “There’s a magical sense, a magical feel here in Neyland Stadium!”
Then, UGA’s Haynes scores the game-winning TD, and announcer Andre Ware says, “You almost hate that somebody’s gotta lose this football game.”
Gee, your emotions seem to have changed a bit.
what’s scary is, I remember saying the same thing when I got home and watched the replay!
I enjoyed Danielson’s commentary for several years, but it’s true that in the last few years he worships the more talented team and it’s disgustingly obvious. When it’s Alabama, you can see the slobber draining off the TV screen.
Chris P. hit the nail on the head.
Multiple times every game, there will be instances that I, sitting at home, know what is going on while Danielson is either confused or flat-out wrong.
He routinely spouts wrong declarative statements about what the outcome of video reviews should be before the videos are shown completely or before views from different angles are shown.
Frankly, I think he suffers from mild senility.
Gary and his partner are both ready for Broadcasters Retirement Village, that’s for sure, but the two guys doing the Texas/Sooners game on FOX were pitiful. It’s like they were trying to imitate over the top bad announcers doing an SNL skit. Joel Klatt is flat out bad.
It’s the concussions. He is losing his mind, and we are watching it happen on national TV. Don’t blame him for it. It happens. He always refers to Ensminger as Emzinger. Always. Every time he says the name. I’m sure similar things happen with other names he tries to pronounce, but I notice it with Ensminger. And there are numerous other types of mental lapses. Too many concussions.
Every Sunday or Monday I hear fans complain about the announcers being biased, and may times its fans from the same game both saying the announcers were biased against their team. I never hear a fan admit that they are biased and maybe that has some thing to do with it.
you’re probably right about that!
I listen to the game in Spanish when Danielson is calling our game. Just wish I knew Spanish.
Too funny! My daughter knows Spanish so I’ll take her into a Mexican Supermarket with me, speak to the cashier in English then when get outside ask my daughter what they said about us. LoL
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Danielson always hypes the higher ranked team. I do think that Brad Nessler does a good job.
Call me an old timer but it’s been downhill since Keith Jackson retired. He was the ‘Bear Bryant’ of college football announcers.
and most non bammer fans thought keith Jackson was a HUGE bammer homer
Yea, but he was our homer.
Anyone else see Corso pick Texas to win the Alabama vs OleMiss game. Some announcers and sports TV personalities need to just hang it up.
He also did the Tomahawk chop when picking the Gators over A&am. Poor thing thought when they said “Florida”, they was talking about his beloved FSU Seminoles!
Brad Nessler is ok. The fact he was good friends with Larry Munson clears him. Herstriet never ever shuts up. He can’t help himself. On GameDay everyone says something and makes a pick. He lectures, runs on and on, then drowns out others. I’d rather listen to Gary than him.Herbie has uncontrollable motor mouth. Even Brent Musberger took a breath every now and then.
he actually got a couple of things right, including the part where the Vol player (#0) literally ran up and tried to throw a punch at the UGA running back (McIntosh)…too bad the refs were blind on that one!
So why does anyone care at all about anything Danielson has to say? Zero impact on what is going on in the game. Mute him.