It makes me ANGRY, so angry I will post on Google's 1,353,537th most popular web page, that this idiot's "calls" will be the audio they use when they compile ALL of Hester's runs once he hangs 'em up. The Superbowl one is already played to death, with this idiot screaming, and now we'll have to look forward to his horrific screaming as the audio to Hester's career highlight reel. Hell, give me the TV call where Joe Buck barely wakes up to take note of a 100 yard run back for TD...I'll take that over the breathy, long-winded, nowhere near real time call of the cliche' bag known as Joniak.

On the list of things to be ANGRY about this comes in at about 1,353,537th on the list

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I am SO ANGRY about Joniak's stupid TD call. His growling "TOUCHDOWN.....GRRRRRRRRR TOUCHDOWN BEARS" makes me so ANGRY. Who is telling him this is necessary, WHO?!

cant stand that fuckhead, he is so fake

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Driving up to Madison on Thanksgiving I was treated to Packer Radio and the goof they have with Larrivee is just awful. I'd take 20 Joniaks before listening to that cheese burpin idiot.

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Had the pleasure of listening to him today since packers aren't playing this weekend. Woof. He easily has to be bottom 3 in pro sports.

Rank them.

Tim McCarver
Tim Ryan
Jeff Joniak

PBP

Mike Tirico
That fat broad doing Yankee games
Jeff Joniak

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I think he meant Joe McConnell.

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Joniak is terrible and Thayer isn't any better. Ron Gleason sucks at halftime, too. The best part of my Bears radio experience yesterday was angry Doug. Too bad OB was out drunk.

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Guess I'm in the minority as I don't mind either Joniak or Thayer

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I may be anti-Thayer due to my disdain for the 85 Bears still being around in any capacity. I fully admit that.

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I don't mind Joniak's stuff just his lack of good voice.

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For me the gold standard is Larrivee so anyone else is a step down but while he's definitely not a great pbp guy I don't think Joniak is awful . More average.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I used to love Wayne. But then I heard him do a Packers game a few years ago and he sounded too homerish. He didn't sound the same. Remember when he did Bulls games (badly)? That's what he sounded like doing the Pack.

You can't go home again I guess. Everything was better in 1985.

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Yeah, I was never a fan of his WGN broadcasts for the Bulls. The one thing I do remember was him calling a game, and someone on the Bulls (might have been Ben Gordon), hit a dagger 3, and Larivee made his call "The Dagger!", and it was actually sponsored by some medevil type movie that was being released around that time. Just bad in so many ways...

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I thought Larrivee did a good job with the Bulls. He was better than Tom Dore. Why was Tom Dore?

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Yeah, Tom Dore was awful too.

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I find it weird/sad that Steve Kashul has been doing pre/post for the Bulls since I was in like 4th grade, at least.

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I'm a meatball because I still feel like Larivee is a sell out for dropping the Bears for the Packers.

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I'd need to know the financial details to make a judgement.

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Is there any way the pack are either paying more, have a bigger audience or provide more opportunities for work on the side?

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They could pay more. WTMJ takes its Packers coverage very seriously, more like WGN and the Cubs than 780 and the Bears. (And yeah, it's a Milwaukee station that produces the games; the Green Bay station is an affiliate.) Between what we know about the Bears and what we know about CBS, it doesn't surprise me at all that together they'd skimp on broadcasting. They fired Hub Arkush from the radio booth because he was the third man, don't forget.

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Joniak does suck out loud, but whenever I hear Scott Zolak on a clip from a Patriots' game it makes me think things could be worse.

Larrivee has documented that he was a Packers fan as a kid. Doing radio for them was his dream job. That's why he left.

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Can't someone find documentation that Joniak was a Bills fan as a kid?

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Odd first time post.

I drove across the country listening to them call a game and it was infuriating. They don't tell you how much a play gained, the new down and distance, the score, the time on the clock. It's like listening to someone who thinks you are watching on tv.

This thread is so ancient it tells you pretty well that he going nowhere. I still think of him as the fairly new voice of the Bears but he is now in his late 50s.

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