Play-by-play announcers are often the target of sports fans’ ire. I know because I am one (a fan, that is). Back in 1980, NBC took heed and aired a football game with no announcers…just the stadium P.A. and crowd noise. Dick Enberg, NBC’s lead football announcer at the time, said afterward: “The final outcome, with much relief, was the fact after watching for a quarter or two that, you know, something was missing. It was us.”