Yes…yes, I do
Posted by TFG on October 28th, 2007
MNF will make a good case study for somebody, someday in explaining how to utterly destroy a brand. What was a complete stop-down-drop-everything three hours of teevee is now an occasional swing-by-put-it-on-in-the-background deal, and it’s all because of the choice by ESPN to highlight the personalities instead of the game. I guess it could be, of course, that I’m just too old to hang with the yoots and their viewing preferences for screamy, OTT garbage surrounding the whole point of the broadcast.
Via Craig…
October 28th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Hear Hear.
October 28th, 2007 at 11:01 am
At least they got rid of ThEEsman. If they ever paired him with Tim McCarver for something, the end result would be like mating a dodo with a junebug.
October 28th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
I just might be crazier than a shithouse rat, but I’d take Theesman over Kornholio. And I think that’s just how damn bad it is.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Wouldn’t it be nice to see a football game that was about, oh, I don’t know, football? Where’s Howard to throw up on Tony’s shoes when you need him?
October 30th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
That whole business with Brett Favre and his wife last night was excrable. Thought I was watching Oprah.
jdkelly
October 30th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
That was the lowest ESPN has gone yet on the personality > game stuff, but, as they have proved again and again through the last few years, they ain’t done digging yet.
My friend, a huge Packer fan (hell, he grew up in Green Bay), calls that crap that all the football casts do the “Brett Favre Stroke Off”. Kornwhatever would have lost all credibility last night if he’d had any coming into the game.
Oh, and it’d be nice if Tirico would describe what was actually happening on the field rather than just making crap up.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
I smooth forgot there was a game on, until the bar I was drinking at turned it on. The sound was off, so that was nice.