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05-30-2014, 07:12 PM
ESPN's New Commentator On Calling the World Cup: Stay Out of the Way
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With any luck, the lasting sound of this summer's World Cup (http://mashable.com/category/world-cup/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) won't be the massively commercialized event's official (and inexplicable) "song (http://mashable.com/2014/05/16/pitbull-jennifer-lopez-world-cup-song/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)" from alleged musician Pitbull
**, a much better soundtrack to have rattling around your head for the next several months would be the measured tones of Jon Champion, ESPN (http://mashable.com/category/espn/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)'s newest commentator, who will make his debut for the American World Cup audience this summer. The only catch? Champion hopes you don't remember him — at least **t that much
See also: The Yellow First-Down Line: An Oral History of a Game Changer (http://mashable.com/2013/09/25/yellow-first-down-line/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
"It's a bit like being a referee," Champion told Mashable in a phone interview earlier this month. "In a sense, if I get **ticed too much then I'm **t doing my job — which is to caption the picture and **t dominate the proceedings." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/30/jon-champion-espn/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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With any luck, the lasting sound of this summer's World Cup (http://mashable.com/category/world-cup/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) won't be the massively commercialized event's official (and inexplicable) "song (http://mashable.com/2014/05/16/pitbull-jennifer-lopez-world-cup-song/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)" from alleged musician Pitbull
**, a much better soundtrack to have rattling around your head for the next several months would be the measured tones of Jon Champion, ESPN (http://mashable.com/category/espn/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)'s newest commentator, who will make his debut for the American World Cup audience this summer. The only catch? Champion hopes you don't remember him — at least **t that much
See also: The Yellow First-Down Line: An Oral History of a Game Changer (http://mashable.com/2013/09/25/yellow-first-down-line/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
"It's a bit like being a referee," Champion told Mashable in a phone interview earlier this month. "In a sense, if I get **ticed too much then I'm **t doing my job — which is to caption the picture and **t dominate the proceedings." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/30/jon-champion-espn/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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