dubs Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Do people really watch these things? IMO they are totally unwatachable. Just trite little skits void of any real football discussion and focusing on controversy, "social justice", or pop culture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 whats with all the broads on espn being moved up? Â Because we need more shrill voices in sports. ESPN is the Sears of sports media. Â They know it but can't come to grips with it. Their business model and brand are dying. Â Telltale sign is this wholesale insertion of the cheaper on-air talent and increase of the cheap talking head airtime. They need "somebody" to say a lot of "something" so why not get it at the cheapest price point possible. Â ESPN radio's become one long, unlistenable lecture on race with the shining exception of Mike and Mike, which naturally ESPN is scrapping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sullim4 Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 ESPN ruined ESPN. When SportsCenter was in its heyday during the '90s, it became more about the personalities (Kilborn, Olbermann, Patrick) than it did about the actual sports content. This then caused ESPN to shift a majority of their programming to focus on talking heads and their opinions. Â Add to that a very poor decision on their part to outbid themselves on a lot of these contracts. Take the NBA contract, for instance. Every subscriber to ESPN and TNT is paying $30 per year just to watch the NBA. The NFL deal is just as ridiculous - $1.9 BILLION per year for mediocre Monday night games with no playoff rights beyond a wild card game. Their stupid decisions are causing their business to fall apart. Â I dropped ESPN by moving to DirecTV's select package and couldn't be happier. If the Bills end up playing on Monday night this year, I will likely buy the next higher package for a month, and then proceed to drop it after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasons1992 Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 I turned in ALL of my cable equipment over the holidays. Got to the desk when they opened. There were 5 people in front of me, with ALL of their cable equipment as well. As the highest-fee channel on cable, I can't see them surviving if everyone moves to streaming, like myself (and a great OTA antenna on the roof. The picture is BETTER than satellite or cable.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramblin' Rob Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 I said the day FS1 started...ESPN's days were instantly numbered, because we've seen this story before == Fox News destroying CNN/CNBC/MSNBC. When Red Eye was good, at 3am, it beat Rachel Maddow's audience at 9pm. It's a fact that nobody wants to explain because: butthurt. Â The response to my FS1 projection was crap. Mostly predicated on the fact that 1) this was around 2011, and ESPN's numbers were at a record high, and, 2) a whole bunch of bias. All FS1 was doing was capitalizing on a market that ESPN created, and they'd be lucky to be a minor player... Â Now? Here we are. I ask you all: was Disney responsible for the 24/7 coverage of Colin Kaepernick? Was Disney responsible for firing Curt Schilling, when, 70-90% of self-described "sports fans" agreed with him? Do you really support a grown man, dressed like a girl, using using your daughter/niece/some random little girl you don't know's restroom at a baseball game? If you do, then I can't help you...and neither can ESPN: their future bankruptcy is directly tied to your current moral bankruptcy. Â Why was it so easy for FS1 to poach the "talent" of Colin Cowherd and Skip Bayless? Christ: those 2 guys WERE the ESPN model for at least the last 10 years. Why is Cowherd(who is hilarious every time he said/says he isn't a "company man", yet, promoted ESPN's NBA coverage, dissed hockey, then, kissed our asses just before WGR cancelled him, and, is now a hockey fan...because of the number of Fox MSG clones out there) now calling ESPN a terrible place to work? Â In the end, ESPN is getting exactly what it deserves. It's no different than any firm that consistently undermines their customer's trust, by consistently replacing what the customer wants, with what their personal/company agenda says the customer needs. Â Sure. you can get away with it for a while, sometimes even a decade. However: look where we are now. You can't get away with it forever. I think you went off the rails after the second sentence, my friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Ballin Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 ESPN is fine. They had to change. And yes, people get old. People retire like Chris Berman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schpiely Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 My NFL viewing consists of 99.5% NFL Network and .5% ESPN. ESPN could have a trained chimp through crap at the wall and it would be no less unwatchable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob's House Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 ESPN has really devolved into a sports-related social justice platform. Half their content would be relegated to PPP if posted here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
145B4IDIE Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 #notmyESPN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBillsGospel Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 If it's Suzy Kolber they have to hire Joe Namath, it's a must! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 @SInow .@richarddeitsch talks to Sam Ponder about why she took her new gig and more: http://on.si.com/2nsDNO1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloMatt Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Namath is getting his Tivo and TV upgraded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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