(01-06-2019, 11:11 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: The game yesterday between the Colts and the Texans featured some of the most maddeningly verbose and useless color commentary I can ever remember.   Word after meaningless word.   Yesterday was the worst ever.  It's like they were being paid by the word.  "You can't have penalties like that."   No [BLEEP], Sherlock.   Penalties are bad.   Shut up!  

If the color commentators cannot shut up, I would like to have the ability to selectively shut them up.   If I could just tell my TV, I don't want to hear Booger McFarland and Jason Witten, but I would still like to hear the crowd noise and the play by play, I would pay extra for that.   I know the technology exists that would enable such a wonderful feature.   Just give us a menu, "Here are the people who are going to be talking.  Check the boxes of the ones you want to silence."  

So, here's hoping that Comcast and the NFL, together, can create a feature that one can subscribe to for $10 a month, and have it shut up Booger McFarland or Troy Aikman or any of the other maddeningly verbose commentators with their meaningless comments.  

Yes, I know I can mute the whole thing, but what would be even better is if I could mute just parts of it.  I would pay extra for that.

That actually happened by virtue of technical difficulty during a Jags game some years back. The audio from the announcers booth disappeared but the audio from the stadium did not. It was fantastic and I've since said the same thing as you, that I'd pay extra to have the announcers muted. When this happened, it lasted about five minutes. The audio was then repaired and the announcers apologized for inconvenience.  I shouted "No, put it back!!"

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