Fill ’er up, regular.
TV’s worsening epidemic of the needless and easily curable — unguided or misguided analysts who ceaselessly talk — continues to force us to the depths of punch-drunkenness until, surrounded by excess, we come out with our hands up.
Sunday, Fox’s New York audience for the Giants-Cardinals game was introduced to neophyte analyst Greg Olsen, the accomplished Panthers tight end who apparently was under TV’s neo-stupid orders: Talk, talk some more, then talk some more until you become intrusive, annoying background noise, like a leaf blower.
Was he any good? Who knows? He seemed eager to please.