Sean McDonough is coming back to college football. This is a good thing because Sean McDonough might be the greatest case of an announcer clearly not made to call something he could not enjoy as an observer—i.e., Sean McDonough had to call NFL games for the past couple of years, did not take any pleasure in it, and could not despite his best veneer of professionalism hide it at all.
That’s not us guessing. That’s him, verbatim, from a radio interview this past week:
“If you go back and look at the schedule, generally we got one of the worst NFL games each week.