Buffalo Sports Media Power Rankings: Top 5 Most Entertaining

441 responses is a strong sample, but I do question the variety of responses they received. The survey was open for, what, a day? That ultimately is a flaw in the study. Should have been open for at least half a week. From what I've read most responses came from Twitter and e-mail. The e-mail responses were probably Brad Riter's contacts which, realistically, were probably a lot of sports media people and/or radio station employees. I think had they kept the survey open longer, giving more "regular" people a chance to complete the survey, the responses would have made more sense to the commentators here, who are your average Joe reader/listener. However, that fact that it was largely spread by word of mouth thru social media in itself is going to skew the sample. Ultimately this was a fun project, but in the interest of statistics, the entire thing is largely flawed. But it's still fun!

This survey has become clear silliness, with Tim Graham and perhaps Brad Riter making sure to get all of Graham's friends to vote for him in every category to skew the results. By your own admission, you only had 447 votes. Hardly a good sample size to make any sweeping judgments. Graham hasn't worked in sports in Buffalo in several years, just recently returning to a non-sports gig and now moving back to Bills. So he worked at ESPN. So what? He did blogs. And none of the work he did at TBN, which was now what -- 7-8 years ago? -- was that impressive to merit the kind of across-the-board rating he's receiving over clearly more deserving people in the media, both at TBN and other outlets. I could even make this point: Why was Graham even included in the survey? He hasn't even started his sports gig. He hasn't been a member of the "Buffalo Sports Media" for several years. This survey had a lot of potential as a conversation piece. Instead, it's a bust. Period. A lot of people who follow Buffalo media don't even know who Tim Graham is. Hope he or anyone at TBN doesn't think some fledgling blog clearly sponsoring him is indicative of the opinion of Buffalo sports fans.

Interesting results here. I love Tim Graham but I fail to see where he is most entertaining. You only hear him during an atypical radio interview or co-hosting a video chat with Sully. I'd leapfrog Jeremy to 2 because I do think he is more entertaining than Parker or Howard. For what it's worth, mine would be: 1. Roby-great pick who makes you laugh out loud with his Roby-isms 2. Jeremy White-Always good info in an entertaining manner 3. Howard Simon- great straight man, voice of reason, you name it; he does his role well. 4. Reuben Brown- Don't know if he counts but his radio show on S&R is great radio and insight on football. 5. Schopp and Bulldog. I put them together because when they are solo the show isn’t as good. Bulldog is like a spokesman for Buffalo fans who plays that role well. I'm not a fan of Schopp as a person, as you may have seen from other posts, but from an entertainment perspective only he does come up with good info on sports and the entertainment side of sports. Match Game is good as well and when he was on 107.7 he had a great "name the obscure Sabre contest." If he would just bag those car and condiment drafts he might be more listenable. I'm assuming Brad isn't eligible but if so he would be an easy #2 and everyone would be bumped down one (except Roby)