- Joined
- Nov 14, 2002
- Messages
- 29,701
Re: SHUT UP KORNHEISER
ESPN’s production of Monday Night Football is truly godawful. I’ve yet to sit thru a complete telecast, but it’s very hard to stomach.
Tirico, and Theismann give you about what you expect. Heck, give them credit, at least they are talking football. Tirico adds a lot of enthusiasm, I like that.
The interviews are a show killer. Charles Barkley is the best interview in the world. It doesn’t get any better than that. And it’s still bad. I want to watch a football game, not an interview. Steve McNair from his living room adds nothing to the telecast of a game. Stop it.
Halftime is a complete waste of airtime. With the Cards up 20-0, and the halftime crew has three former all pros, what do they spend the first two minutes talking about? Who “picked†the Cards. Nobody cares, folks. Nobody freaking cares. Oh, but there’s lots of that bombastic laughing. Over nothing that remotely approaches “funnyâ€. The 2006 edition of Chris Berman is a legitimate on-air abortion, there’s just no use wasting another keystroke discussing him.
But now, at least some halftime highlights. Or so you’d think. But, no!! They’ve been “ESPN-izedâ€. Which means you get highlights featuring fuzzy focuses, and the dreadful, “speed-up the action to 4x regular speedâ€, then slow it down. So you have no clue of what just happened. Who sits around and thinks up ways to **** up NFL highlights? ESPN does.
Halftime isn’t over. Now it’s to Lazy Eye to debut a Jay Z video. Thanks, that’s the reason the fast-forward button on my TIVO gets such a workout while on the ESPN networks.
Kornheiser just plain sucks. He’s a great guy at a cocktail party, I’m sure, but up in the broadcast booth, he’s a one-man Hindenburg. When the game is dull, he’s mute. When the game is thrilling, such as last night’s fourth quarter, he’s all over the place. Don’t tell us your sportswriter’s “storyline†to the game. We don’t care. It’s invariably simplistic, and many times, just plain wrong. Trust me. I read Bill Plaschke. I know “wrongâ€.
You’ve spent a decade telling us how little you don’t know about sports, Tony. So when you attempt to put things in perspective, like saying that “this would be the biggest upset in franchise historyâ€, I know damn well you are pulling that straight out of your ass. Heck, I don’t know much about Cardinals football, but the Cardinals had a pretty big playoff upset in Dallas just a decade ago.
Just a really bad production. And I don’t care if it’s producing great ratings for the network. Laverne and Shirley was the #1 rated show in America a few decades ago. Quality television has no correlation to ratings. Shame on ESPN.
ESPN’s production of Monday Night Football is truly godawful. I’ve yet to sit thru a complete telecast, but it’s very hard to stomach.
Tirico, and Theismann give you about what you expect. Heck, give them credit, at least they are talking football. Tirico adds a lot of enthusiasm, I like that.
The interviews are a show killer. Charles Barkley is the best interview in the world. It doesn’t get any better than that. And it’s still bad. I want to watch a football game, not an interview. Steve McNair from his living room adds nothing to the telecast of a game. Stop it.
Halftime is a complete waste of airtime. With the Cards up 20-0, and the halftime crew has three former all pros, what do they spend the first two minutes talking about? Who “picked†the Cards. Nobody cares, folks. Nobody freaking cares. Oh, but there’s lots of that bombastic laughing. Over nothing that remotely approaches “funnyâ€. The 2006 edition of Chris Berman is a legitimate on-air abortion, there’s just no use wasting another keystroke discussing him.
But now, at least some halftime highlights. Or so you’d think. But, no!! They’ve been “ESPN-izedâ€. Which means you get highlights featuring fuzzy focuses, and the dreadful, “speed-up the action to 4x regular speedâ€, then slow it down. So you have no clue of what just happened. Who sits around and thinks up ways to **** up NFL highlights? ESPN does.
Halftime isn’t over. Now it’s to Lazy Eye to debut a Jay Z video. Thanks, that’s the reason the fast-forward button on my TIVO gets such a workout while on the ESPN networks.
Kornheiser just plain sucks. He’s a great guy at a cocktail party, I’m sure, but up in the broadcast booth, he’s a one-man Hindenburg. When the game is dull, he’s mute. When the game is thrilling, such as last night’s fourth quarter, he’s all over the place. Don’t tell us your sportswriter’s “storyline†to the game. We don’t care. It’s invariably simplistic, and many times, just plain wrong. Trust me. I read Bill Plaschke. I know “wrongâ€.
You’ve spent a decade telling us how little you don’t know about sports, Tony. So when you attempt to put things in perspective, like saying that “this would be the biggest upset in franchise historyâ€, I know damn well you are pulling that straight out of your ass. Heck, I don’t know much about Cardinals football, but the Cardinals had a pretty big playoff upset in Dallas just a decade ago.
Just a really bad production. And I don’t care if it’s producing great ratings for the network. Laverne and Shirley was the #1 rated show in America a few decades ago. Quality television has no correlation to ratings. Shame on ESPN.
