That Fantastic Stream Announcer: Tom Feuer's the name

+1

very knowledgeable and entertaining announcer. Not overblown in any way. I was sad to hear him sign off just before the 10k. The shot put was just heating up.

Hate that the shot putters and the whole track meet lost it's rhythm once they went to the national telecast. I wish they used the Diamond League model of filming the meet instead of the races/competition being staged for the broadcast and sponsor plugs.

+2

The broadcasts were night and day. For how good the initial broadcast was the national broadcast was the equivalent on the other side of the spectrum. Truly awful. This Tom guy did an awesome job by himself. NBC could save a lot of money by just paying one guy's salary instead of 4-5 morons who do half as well he did. And just show the damn races. NBC! Is it that hard?!

Agreed with all the above. The live stream was so much better that it made the national broadcast painful to watch.

+3

Someone please send this thread to NBC and explain that everyone here normally HATES everyone, and has a special hate for announcers. That an announcer gets an appreciation thread means that hell must be really cold these days.

He is so good that he could sign with Nike and not get reductions.

Tom Fuerer is my hero.

Also suck it NBC!

can somebody please force the Floboys to watch and listen to what Tom Feuer is doing. THAT is how you call a track meet not all the garbage Flotrack tries to pass off as coverage

is Paul Swangard part of the internet broadcast team too?

Here, here. This man does deserve recognition based on his work and the incompetence of the rest of his network when it comes to track and field. Why not keep streaming throughout the competition? Why horde the coverage? Here on the west coast we had to wait until 9pm to watch the horrible 1 hour presentation interspersed between updates on Michael Phelps.

To be fair, NBC knows what track fans really want....more swimming coverage.

Exactly! The question I have is, how can NBC Sports be forward thinking in its use of the online platform and full on weekly presentation of the EPL but muck up the trials? There has to be little demand from USATF to present its sport in a competent way.

He's back on the stream this morning

every broadcast brings out a flock of whiners to repeat what has been said multiple times.

sometimes the message board is no more than a stupidity generating echo chamber

Also impressed wrote:

He's back on the stream this morning

Short streaming program today but he still got in as much info as he could.

Six (6) hours of streaming tomorrow, I think he said. If he pulls that off as a one man show, he should be in line for a medal ceremony.

Shame he's with a Mickey Mouse outfit like NBC.

He is doing a good job with the Decathlon today as well. The stream actually gives you a feel for the camaraderie among the decathletes something you can never get from a 2 minute summary given in past by Dwight Stones or Dan O'Brien.