Sunday Game Takes an Aerial Shot
Talking Balls
Viewers of the Sunday Game - already almost as disoriented as the presenters over the new space age set - experienced severe bouts of vertigo the other night as the latest camera angle was a vertical shot downwards onto the heads of Tommy Lyons, Tony Davis and Pat Spillane. The new camera angle was said to be deployed to show off the respective pundits’ most flattering side and save viewers having to look at them as they talked the usual balls. At least it wasn’t a shot of Spillane’s rear end - the source of most of the content on the show.
It has however prompted speculation that RTE will be able to sell advertising space on the heads of some of the more follicly challenged members of the team, with Cyril Farrell’s cranium believed to be a particularly lucrative location of advertising real estate. For our part Squareball has put in a request offering a significant sum of money if Spillane will shave off the haystack and let us stamp Squareball on his head for those lucrative vertical camera moments. Either that or we’ll be lookin’ Joe Brolly to wear one of those swimming caps you get in posh hotels again with Squareball in full view.
Meanwhile up on the high stool at the rear, Joanne Cantwell and Anthony Tohill chatted each other up nonchalantly in the manner of two affluent strangers that had just met in a city centre bistro but obviously had something in common.
We can’t wait to see TV3’s coverage - if we get the aerial fixed that is - but it has to be better than this.
September 27th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
i watch all the games on the tv i use to go to all the games now i can only watch the foot ball hurlet to