Rating the FOX announcers for Vikings-Seahawks
Adam Amin, Mark Sanchez and sideline reporter Kristina Pink will have the call Sunday on FOX.
Having covered the sports TV-radio beat for the Star Tribune for eight years, I found there was plenty of interest in that side of the business.
We tune into games to watch the action, but the viewing experience either can be enhanced or diminished by those describing what is going on.
Thus, each week I do a brief analysis of who will be in the booth to call the Vikings’ game and whether the assignment is a good or bad one.
Network and broadcast team: Adam Amin and Mark Sanchez will have the call at 3:05 p.m. Sunday on FOX. Kristina Pink will be the sideline reporter.
Rating the duo: 7 on a scale of 1-10.
Why that rating? Judging from the reaction I’ve received whenever Sanchez works a Vikings game, fans are either all in or all out on his approach in the booth.
FOX will air its seventh Vikings game of the season as Amin works his third and his second with Sanchez. Amin was paired with Greg Olsen on FOX’s No. 2 team for the Vikings’ loss to the Lions in Week 7 because Joe Davis was calling the World Series. The Amin-Sanchez pairing is the third on FOX’s depth chart.
Amin, 37, also calls MLB on FOX and is considered one of the better play-by-play guys in the business.
The Vikings (12-2) have clinched a playoff spot and are battling Detroit and Philadelphia for the top seed in the NFC. The Seahawks (8-6) have fallen out of the lead in the NFC West, and the playoff picture, because the Rams (8-6) own the tie-breaker.
This will be the only late-afternoon game on FOX and will go to a large portion of the country.
Actually I believe it’s a Fox regional 4:05 pm, Eastern game, not a 4:25 game that goes to most of the country.