Observations and opinions after a day of pure Bills football, an early start, tailgating with friends, sitting in the scoreboard end-zone with my lowlife buds and listening to lots and lots and way too much sports talk radio, before, during and after the game and a little too much post-game tailgating.
97 Rock's pre-game is the best produced of all the shows, with good features, strong personalities and quick phone calls. Even the bad callers are minimized because the producer keeps things moving. You'd kind of expect this from the flagship station.
WGR 550 tries real hard to be controversial and it shows. Their hosts are knowledgeable and sound like fans, but they're equally transparent. Bomb-throwers who enjoy fanning the flames.
Postgame, no station gets the lockerroom interviews like 97 Rock. Again, it helps to be the Bills station and have that exclusivity. Jim Brinson may be a knowledgeable sports guy, but he's tedious. This said, he's head and shoulders above the grunting and pontificating of Schop and the Bulldog on WGR.
The WHAM postgame might as well be called Post Game Bitterness With The Ex-coach. What's worse, the callers are more bitter and tedious than the host, if that's at all possible. Bad as the Bills may have been in the last two games, Dickerson might have a listenable show if he demonstrated a morsel of objectivity. His callers yammer and stammer on interminably and he's all too happy to let them suck up to him and take up valuable airtime. The show sounds like it has 12 listeners and the same 12 listeners call every Sunday just to hear themselves talk.
WHAM has a lot of work to do with this show. Dickerson's bitterness spills over to Monday on WGR. After all the time he's spent bashing the Bills, it's gotten old. Like listening to Zager & Evans' "25-25" over and over and over...
97 Rock's pre-game is the best produced of all the shows, with good features, strong personalities and quick phone calls. Even the bad callers are minimized because the producer keeps things moving. You'd kind of expect this from the flagship station.
WGR 550 tries real hard to be controversial and it shows. Their hosts are knowledgeable and sound like fans, but they're equally transparent. Bomb-throwers who enjoy fanning the flames.
Postgame, no station gets the lockerroom interviews like 97 Rock. Again, it helps to be the Bills station and have that exclusivity. Jim Brinson may be a knowledgeable sports guy, but he's tedious. This said, he's head and shoulders above the grunting and pontificating of Schop and the Bulldog on WGR.
The WHAM postgame might as well be called Post Game Bitterness With The Ex-coach. What's worse, the callers are more bitter and tedious than the host, if that's at all possible. Bad as the Bills may have been in the last two games, Dickerson might have a listenable show if he demonstrated a morsel of objectivity. His callers yammer and stammer on interminably and he's all too happy to let them suck up to him and take up valuable airtime. The show sounds like it has 12 listeners and the same 12 listeners call every Sunday just to hear themselves talk.
WHAM has a lot of work to do with this show. Dickerson's bitterness spills over to Monday on WGR. After all the time he's spent bashing the Bills, it's gotten old. Like listening to Zager & Evans' "25-25" over and over and over...