Wonder if Fowler gargled, swallowed or both last night post game?
I used to like Fowler.
Then I kind of got annoyed by him. He hit a point doing the Saturday night primetime games where he started to call the game like HE was the one creating the big moments with his voice. He does this thing where he makes his voice super deep and stretches out his words... I understand it's his style, but you can tell when he's too eager to make a big call and does that stupid shit when he shouldn't. He kind of did it on scUM's INT return late in the fourth last night. He started to get ahead of himself and thought he was about to put the exclamation point on a scUM dagger TD, but he had to put an awkward pause in the middle of a huge call because it didn't quite pan out.
Now I feel general animosity towards him when I'm listening to a game he's calling, because I know it's coming. He's really not that good of a play-by-play guy at this point, IMO. He often steps on Herbie's color commentary, trying to be too involved on that side, and you can clearly tell when he's got a preference in the game.
I think 2018 ND vs VT might have been the one where I lost the last bit of respect I had for him. He called early VT big plays with excitement, and saved his reserved, deeeep voice for ND, but only when they took control later. It was painfully obvious that he was banking on calling a great VT home win against mighty ND.
Idk, I might just be too grumpy about scUM right now... but my point stands that Fowler is not a top play-by-play guy at this point. He's just there because the whole ESPN CFB crew is cool kids club, not a professional organization.
