Don't you miss his adrenalized nonsense? Be honest!
It has been a full year, almost, since the World Surf League became the World Surf League and trimmed its announcing team down to a reputable few. You know the boys now, and their -isms, by heart but what happened to the old doggies? To Pat Parnell? To Dave Stanfield?
I don’t know about Pat but Dave Stanfield is back in the booth calling Zeke Lau Jamie O’Brien and all the rest of the “whoopty-doos” going down in the “thrill-show” and you had better “close your eyes tight or your eyelids are gonna blow open!
Does hearing his adrenalized nonsense make you nostalgic for a simpler time in the competitive game? A time when a very vague notion of surfing combined with the book How to Speak Like a Cool Dude Teenager for Dummies made for aural gold? An accidental double entendre was always but a blow away when Dave Stanfield was in the booth.
Let’s bring him back home, shall we? Raise your digital hand, dear reader, and Demand your Dave™.
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Lets not forget Cote who sounds like the porn camera guy circa 2004. Babysitter club, bang bus you know the guy.
Get PT back in there! Bud tour was the best: wing-wanging boards around and Machado’s ping pong manoeuvre
Dave “The Stain” Stansfield is absolutely cringeworthy at best. His bro-ing down style of commentary is painfull and outdated. I listened to a bit of the Sunset event and noted that “The Stain” started commentating with Pete Mel one day and then the next Ross was back in the booth with him my guess was Pete was like get me outta the booth with that freakin doofus..
I can tell ya right now im not missing old Louie Egan’s droning, but I do miss the likes of Dave and Pat .And who doesn’t miss Occ’s inimitable gold
I saw sanoe lake at costco today.
Bring back Dave.
Everything in the world makes me miss Occy and his “What was that stingray THINKING???” word ideas.
The triple crown just isn’t the same without his tales of who he saw in the super market yesterday etc.
I say fire Pottz, and bring big Dave in full time to the WSL team
Promote Blakey, Keep Williams, Whatever Mel, Shame Pottz and Kill Turpel
I like Strider too
Fuck I upvoted your comment above… Strider is an ass kissing retard..
I like Strider. He mangles it heaps better than Occy.
Dave is the Vin Scully of surf…
My name is Mariano Landa and I have a problem. I like Dave Stanfield. Every time I hear Turpel speak, I also long for the days of my childhood when both Peter King and GT were respected anchors for nascent “extreme sports” programming, before they were dead to my more refined sensibilities.
I also wonder if Peter King has gotten dental work since then.
TBH I almost always mute the broadcast. Are there people who really listen?
I call bullshit on that. If you’ve got no sound on then you can’t hear when a wave is being ridden, which means you’re watching 100% of the time. Not even Jesus could watch 100% of the time a pro surfing heat.
I watch in spurts. With a cup of coffee on the couch, or at the office while I’m performing mindless tasks. It’s rare that I get up from the screen when it’s on.