Mind you, there are some sports the sporty blokes who front The Crowd Goes Wild don't seem to much care for either. One of them could be golf and another might be basketball. There was a great deal of bickering on the shows I caught last week.
At one point on Thursday's edition Mulligan shouted at Richardson, "I'm not letting you speak," directing a big, dramatic, silencing glare at him. "No one finds you interesting when it comes to basketball."
Richardson did his best to look miffed but his face wouldn't let him and, anyway, he gives as good as he gets. "You just contradicted yourself on national television," he'd yelled in triumph at Mulligan a little earlier.
The news of the day - and the week - was the cricket scandal, a bit of a sticky wicket for a show like The Crowd Goes Wild, which is really more about celebration than information.
Brendon McCullum had that day done his famous press conference and Mulligan and former test cricketer Richardson were in a terrible tizz about it and quite defensive.
"He doesn't need the stress," said Mulligan, sounding more like a women's magazine editor than a sports commentator, "he's having a baby." The bickering frontmen did have to shut up occasionally for field reports, though these tend to go for the laughs. The best on Thursday featured an interview with a chatty but completely incomprehensible Irish boxer and an attempt by the reporter to steal his "lucky" gloves.
Friday's Crowd Goes Wild was a special edition, devoted to staging what turned into a clumsy quiz show between the two presenters, in an apparent bid to put their bickering to rest.
With a doleful Ric Salizzo as quizmaster and two sets of characterless teams to play with, Mulligan and Richardson simply filled the space by bickering even more than usual.
Not their finest half-hour, but still more fun than most at 7 o'clock.
