Espn

[eagle]

Me and my friends are sick and tired of all the stupid fucking interviews during the game. We don't care what some has been player has to say or what some fucking celebrity has to say we just want to watch the game. There’s been many times ware I've missed play’s because of a stupid interview or a game up date. They should show the interviews and game updates during half time and post game or even pregame. Same goes for NASCAR, get rid of the interviews and the cut away car crap, I don't need to see it I just want to watch the race.

[David M]

Sounds to me like the people who produce sports are getting bored with the sport itself and need the filler to keep themselves entertained. It's bad enough big network TV is about 1/3 non-content such as commercials and self-promotional ads. I just Tivo everything that runs ads...I can't take all the ads anymore.

[jedi_knight01]

That is why I don't watch espn...

[whr2206]

Yeah I know what you're saying.

Instead of focusing on the game, they try to tell these feel-good stories.

I'm a VT fan, so I remember a few about tech in particular.

The anouncers were talking about how Marcus Vick had gotten into trouble and his "responsible" older brother Michael had taken him under his wing and showed him how to be a more responsible, respectable adult. They kept talking and talking about how Michael took Marcus to his Atlanta home in the summer and mentored him. ROFL

Then Marcus gets dismissed from school after a long train of violations(contributing to the deliquincy of a minor, a few drug possession charges, driving on a suspended license, and for pulling a gun out of his wasteband on a kid at McDonalds/ he also stomped on a Louisville player's hand during a bowl game and flicked of WVA fans. The stomping was undeserved, but the WVA fans are rabid. I don't blame him for that one)... and then Michael gets caught in the whole dog fighting ring and is dehumanized beyond belief. Sure it was illegal. Sure he should be in prison for what he did. But there was more outcry over that incident than many more important issues... where people are actually suffering a dying.

They build them up and break them down.

[David M]

Sounds like a soap opera for sports potatoes.