Reviewing CBS’s broadcast of Super Bowl 50
Viewers have been spoiled the last eight years with mostly quality games
(sans Super Bowl XLVIII), but this game had zero flow. Nor did the
broadcast. CBS has had much better days, including excellent work at the
AFC championship. Super Bowl 50 felt mostly jarring as a viewer,
highlighted by a lack of replays and audio issues.
What else? CBS inexplicably aired multiple full-screen graphics about
Peyton Manning on the game’s final play instead of showing Manning
himself. Given it was likely Manning’s last game in the NFL, it’s a call
CBS will regret when it sees the tape.
Like a man with a lifetime of losing lottery tickets, Carey first came
on the air with 7:16 left in the first quarter when Carolina coach Ron
Rivera challenged the official’s ruling of an incomplete deep pass down
the middle of the field to wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery. After a long
break, Carey was brought in. He praised the challenge—I happened to
think he was right —and said if he was in the booth he would reverse the
call. “If I was in the booth I would reverse this to a catch,” Carey
said. Naturally, the call stood. We never saw Carey again.
(SI.com)
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