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I agree with King Kaufman: Univision definitely knows how to cover world football: they have been doing this for many, many years. But when Kaufman says that "the endless impersonations of Andres Cantor [...] have devolved into Bermanesque schtick" he clearly shows that he hasn't been around the sport for any amount of time.
The drawn-out hollering of GOOOL! is about as old in Spanish-language football broadcasting as, well, Spanish-language football broadcasting. Cantor is merely another Argentine football commentator who has very big lungs and had a contract with Univision when the World Cup was played in the US. GOOL has about the same cultural capital in Spanish-speaking countries as "he shoots, he scores!" -- probably there was one who started it, but it certainly wasn't someone in our lifetimes.
Now if only Univision had an HD broadcast the yuppie in me would have been complete.
Juan Felipe Rincón
I sat through a similar butchering of U2 by Nextel's unofficial corporate rock band, The Direct Connectors, at an annual Nextel Ra!Ra! event at the DC Armory...
Listening to a Nextelized version of "It's a beautiful day" really hurt pretty heavily... It only got worse when they played a version of "what I like about you" that sounded like "What I like about Boost!" or something equally horrifying...
