ESPN is ridiculous.

[Kroog City]

I apologize if somebody beat me to the punch on this one, but how incredibly stupid is this Who's Now garbage?

I understand wanting to offer something new and fresh that is a break from the norm - but this is horrendous.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I would much rather watch another 5 seconds of every highlight they choose to show on SC, or hear something about another legit sport they choose to neglect in the time used for that segment (i.e. soccer) than watch Keyshawn Johnson, one of the 'experts' on the Who's Now panel ramble on about how much he doesn't know enough about the people his vote counts for or against.

Furthermore, if I was Keyshawn I would be angry at the turns my life has taken... saying on national tv that I can't wait to be a mentor and being immediately released, being forced into retirement by every NFL team choosing not to bring me aboard, and then having my only work on ESPN being a part of this atrocious waste of time.

Also - Herbstreit is fine, but the other two on the panel should be Greenberg and Phillips - the self proclaimed 'metrosexuals.'

This whole thing is dumb.

EDIT: I just saw the intro to the segment on the show, and the joker they have in it looks like a blind man walking down an unfamiliar hallway. The segment is awful before it even starts.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I thought Aristophanes was ridiculous.

 

[slappy4428]

Who's he pitch for? ;D

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

NO MORE GREEK CLUES!

 

[slappy4428]

Why are you yelling -- it's early and it's Saturday

 

[IU90]

I've steadfastly avoided watching that show, but know exactly what you're talking about. I'd much rather ESPN go back to the days of broadcasting Australian Rules Football (who remembers that?) than all the reality show/game show type bull**** they've turned to in recent years. Along the way the true sports fans have been kicked out of ESPN's programming inside circle and the soulless corporate hacks have completely taken over.

 

[ondeadline]

<a href="http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/43720/">
I couldn't agree more, but there's already a thread about this idiotic stuff.</a>

 

[Yawn]

I apologize if somebody beat me to the punch on this one, but how incredibly stupid is this Who's Now garbage?

I understand wanting to offer something new and fresh that is a break from the norm - but this is horrendous.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I would much rather watch another 5 seconds of every highlight they choose to show on SC, or hear something about another legit sport they choose to neglect in the time used for that segment (i.e. soccer) than watch Keyshawn Johnson, one of the 'experts' on the Who's Now panel ramble on about how much he doesn't know enough about the people his vote counts for or against.

Furthermore, if I was Keyshawn I would be angry at the turns my life has taken... saying on national tv that I can't wait to be a mentor and being immediately released, being forced into retirement by every NFL team choosing not to bring me aboard, and then having my only work on ESPN being a part of this atrocious waste of time.

Also - Herbstreit is fine, but the other two on the panel should be Greenberg and Phillips - the self proclaimed 'metrosexuals.'

This whole thing is dumb.

EDIT: I just saw the intro to the segment on the show, and the joker they have in it looks like a blind man walking down an unfamiliar hallway. The segment is awful before it even starts.

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ESPN is stealing your jobs and destroying your industry.

 

[leo1]

calling this **** 'dumb' is the understatement of the year

 

[Claws for Concern]

How about these suggestions to ESPN:

End this NOW.

Whoever came up with this idea is fired NOW.

What possible explanation can the ombudsman at ESPN give to back up the necessity of this show NOW or ever?

 

[Birdscribe]

I've steadfastly avoided watching that show, but know exactly what you're talking about. I'd much rather ESPN go back to the days of broadcasting Australian Rules Football (who remembers that?) than all the reality show/game show type bull**** they've turned to in recent years. Along the way the true sports fans have been kicked out of ESPN's programming inside circle and the soulless corporate hacks have completely taken over.

So would I. I LOVE Australian Rules Football. Used to have several people over during the Grand Final when I was in college. Half of them wouldn't understand what the hell was going on, which would make things even more interesting.

 

[lantaur]

I thought Aristophanes was ridiculous.

Beautiful. Pencil ... graphite!

 

[IU90]

I've steadfastly avoided watching that show, but know exactly what you're talking about. I'd much rather ESPN go back to the days of broadcasting Australian Rules Football (who remembers that?) than all the reality show/game show type bull**** they've turned to in recent years. Along the way the true sports fans have been kicked out of ESPN's programming inside circle and the soulless corporate hacks have completely taken over.

So would I. I LOVE Australian Rules Football. Used to have several people over during the Grand Final when I was in college. Half of them wouldn't understand what the hell was going on, which would make things even more interesting.

Agreed, I was serious about that, I used to love watching those Aussie games, even though I was probably in the half that didn't fully understand what was going on. You know a sport's good if you like to watch it even when you don't get the rules.

ESPN used to show stuff like that and NFL Films during the times when they now show this idiotic reality show type bull****. Of course that was long before the Boo Yah guys took over.

 

[tyler durden 71351]

I heard y'all bitching about this last week, then I accidentally caught some of it. I couldn't get over that Michael Wilbon was participating in that idiotic ****. Course, you take the big-ass paycheck and you got to suffer through dumb-ass shows with DJ Stewey...that's the trade.

 

[ServeItUp]

What does it profit a man to sell his soul? Boo-yah...

 

[zagoshe]

to me it is appropriate that they have a clown like DJ Stuey Scott hosting it and a jackass like Keyshawn Johnson particpating in it.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Again . . . MCing Stump the Schwab is the ideal WWL marriage of assignment and (I use the word advisedly . . . ) "talent".

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I can understand doing it for fun... I just can't understand why they would treat this like it's the biggest deal in sports right now...

 

[Clerk Typist]

Bring back Aussie Footy! How are the Hawthorn Hawks doing these days, anyway?

 

[occasionally]

I thought Aristophanes was ridiculous.

Classic. Someone, anyone ... please put Odd Couple reruns back on TV!