Why do you hate ESPN? My answer below...

[joeybee12]

Several reasons, Tim Jesus Christ Tebow, Brett God Favre, but the biggest reason is...

It's PHUCKING WEDENSDAY already! And what was SportsCenter's top story, for 10 minutes???? 4and 2!!!!!!!!!!

Jesus H Christ. It was one game, one call...not the playoffs or anything close to it!

[Condem]

1. Why do I hate eSECpn? Hmmmmm.....

....maybe it's their endless promotion of all things SEC. You'd think they had a financial investment in that conference. Oh, that's right! They fucking do!

[joeybee12]

8. Don't you know, no other conference exists?

That's what I heard on ESPN, so it must be right.

[Condem]

14. Their hatred for the Big Ten is well-known, joey.

Sure, the OSU-Florida debacle started it. But the emergence and popularity of the Big Ten Channel sealed it. It was a big 'fuck you' to eSECpn. 'We don't need you'....and the Big Ten doesn't. The Big Ten Channel is doing quite well. So, eSECpn turned all their considerable wrath on the conference. Now, it's everywhere. Just childish. Yet, Big Ten football still draws HUGE ratings on Saturdays for them.

[BOSSHOG]

26. There are other conferences?

tell me about them. Where are they located?

[Condem]

34. America's Premier Athletic Conference, BOSS.

Always has been. Always will be.

[BOSSHOG]

35. The APAC???

[jakefrep]

46. Not anymore

The Big 10 hasn't done much lately to earn national respect.

[Condem]

49. Yeah, whatever, jake.

You got stock in eSECpn? The SEC is a monster conference. Just fucking ask them.

[JonLP24]

50. LOL - The ESPN was praising the Big 10 tonight as the best conference

in College Basketball after Ohio State defeated Cal 76-70. Can't call it eSECpn anymore. It's now eBIG10pn. ;)

[Condem]

51. I'll tell you what, Jon LP. The Big Ten is loaded....

...except for Iowa, in hoops. A strange deal,today, though. My alma mater (#21 Dayton) lost to #4 Villanova (coached by my HS buddy, Jay Wright) by six. I'm proud of both!!!

[JonLP24]

52. That's what they were saying, best from top to bottom

I'm happy for your HS buddy as well as your team even though they lost. :)

Tuesday, Arizona State defeated TCU 52-48 ;)

However the same time they were praising the Big 10 they were knocking the Pac 10 saying they were down this year.

[happyiowan]

53. According to Condem...

Who is sitting next to me yammering while I root for Utah State - this sports stuff is cyclical and it's the Big 10s year in hoops. According to him the conference is loaded (except for Iowa, oh my god, we're horrid. Lost at home to Texas - San Antonio - our first home loss in 33 years). Me, I know nothing about basketball....According to my beloved, we also lost to Duquesne whose best player was out with an injury. But we're a football school and as far as I'm concerned, that's not a bad thing.

[jakefrep]

55. No,

The Big 10 isn't what it used to be, especially in football.

[JonLP24]

2. You forgot Tom Brady and the Patriots...n/t

[joeybee12]

3. Be gone Satan!

:mad:

[JonLP24]

4. lol

They're going to air Belichick press conference at 10:50 ET.

So far no mention of Favre or Tebow. Surprise they don't mention Favre, he does lead the league in passer rating.

[joeybee12]

5. They start touching themselves over Tebow on Friday, then late

Saturday they start touching themselves over Brett.

[JonLP24]

6. Monday thru Friday

They touch themselves over the Patriots :evilgrin:

[joeybee12]

7. SATAN!!!!

SATAN!!!!!

[Twillig]

31. At least when they talk about Brady this year

At least when they talk about Brady (or the Patriots) this year they don't
show him getting his knee blown out from two angles in one segment.

One segment every two hours

All day

For the whole year.

"Oh look, Brady's knee gets injured again. Hey look!"

[TZ]

9. Because during baseball season

The only teams they think exist are the YANKS and the SOX! :grr:

[joeybee12]

10. Yanks, yeah, but I don't know about the white sox...

...they don't seem to mention them!

[TZ]

11. I meant the Red Sux!

:P

BTW, speaking of the Red Sux, Happy Birthday Flvegan! :evilgrin:

[joeybee12]

13. Then use their proper name, "America's Most Beloved, All-Wise All-knowing Team!" n/t

[madinmaryland]

22. Uhh, joey it is...

"Eastern New Englands's Most Beloved, All-video taping Team!

:evilgrin:

[Bluzmann57]

12. Why do I hate ESPN?

Eastern Seaboard Programming Network. All Yankees and Red Sox all the time. Brett "hillbilly" Favre, Dallas Cowboys this, New England Patriots that, Duke University basketball is nearly god-like, and who in the hell actually wants to watch poker on TV?

[joeybee12]

36. Well, they can be forgiven for the Red Sox and Patriots bias...

...after all, they are America's Teams!

[Auggie]

15. I'd put up with all that if it meant getting NFL PrimeTime back...

the one at 4:30 Sundays with Berman and Jackson.

Football night in America :thumbsdown:

[JonLP24]

17. I watched that show religiously

It was good not just for the highlights but the overall context of the game they did highlights for. I'm having a hard time explaining it but it was much more in-depth then just showing a few highlights and the final score.

Not a fan of NBC's show so instead I watch 'The Blitz' segments on ESPN after the afternoon game so while it's similar it's just not the same. NBC has the rights for the extended highlights(I was referring to) for the Sunday Night pregame show.

[Auggie]

18. +1000: "overall context of the game"

This is a stretch, but It was like a mini-version of NFL films in that way. The producers helped us follow teams throughout the season -- why they won or lost, how they improved, declined, etc., from week to week, all neatly wrapped up in a few minutes. NBC had an opportunity to expand on that -- even improve on it -- but instead gave us fucked-up FNIA. It's a waste of my time and unwatchable because I can't help but compare it to PrimeTime.

[madinmaryland]

28. Huh? NFL Primetime was normally on at 7:30pm. We have the second game

on at 4:30pm

:hi:

[JonLP24]

29. West Coast time!!

Those games over on the East Coast mostly start at 10am our time. 1pm for the 2nd game.

[madinmaryland]

30. Heh. I was up in Alaska a few years back. Man that really screws with you.

All sports are over by 8 or 9 at night. Just odd. Sunday afternoon Football starts at 9:00am!

[JonLP24]

32. I know what you mean

In Kuwait/Iraq everything was 10(no DST in Kuwait)/11 hours ahead of Arizona so try watching games 8pm and 12am. I remember I was with a co-driver with a big Florida Gators fan from Lakeland, Fl. Great guy but we went back and forth a lot. When we arrived at CSC Scania(we drove at night-less visibility) it was about 5:30am Iraq time just in time to catch the Ohio State-Florida National Championship in Glendale, AZ.

[Auggie]

37. Uh, right...

I forgot -- EST was long ago for me.

[PVnRT]

16. It's full of jock-sniffing hacks, for the most part, like Mel Kiper

You know, the guy who though Ryan Leaf would be a better NFL quarterback than some dude from Tennessee.

http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/Articles/5_2249_Hu-Mel-iation!_The_2008_mock-draft_scorecard.html

[CatholicEdHead]

19. Yankees, Red Sox, Yankees, Red Sox, Yankees, Red Sox...

All during the MLB season. The games usually feature one of those two teams against someone else.

[JonLP24]

20. +1000

As a Rockies fan who lives in Arizona I find this frustrating. Maybe my team doesn't deserve to be on national TV but mix it up a little. Like you said "Yankees, Red Sox, Yankees, Red Sox, Yankees, Red Sox"

The only Rockies games I do catch is when they play the Diamondbacks or on WGN when they play the Cubs.

[joeybee12]

21. Whadda ya expect? It's Satan's Team vs America's Team!

Sure ratings winner...or...winnah!

[madinmaryland]

27. There you go again, joey.

The Yankees/Redsox (Satan's teams) and the Dallas Cowboys (America's Team) are in two different sports.

:D

[TZ]

25. Yep. I like the Twins but they almost NEVER show them.

[madinmaryland]

23. Hey joey...

FOURTH AND TWO!!!!

[joeybee12]

24. If it were the playoffs, I'd be despondent...

...I could give a phuck right now...go ahead, try your worst...it just rolls off me.

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[LisaM]

38. Many of the reasons mentioned above

But among other things: they don't seem to like Cinderella stories anymore. They just want to promote big names, projected Heisman winners, blah blah blah. They seem to want people to tune in to see a player, rather than a team.

I hate how when they give scores they give a minute of stats along with it. Then, just when the score you've been waiting for is finally almost up, they go to a commercial. By the time they come back, it's gone. They usually repeat this trick three or four times in a row.

Finally, and the worst thing is, it seems as if my team loses a heartbreaker, or is upset, you have to see it over and over and over (Kordell Stewart pass, App State loss). But if they win on a spectacular play or lose on a bad call, you don't see or hear about it. I'm sure this is not specific to Michigan - it must happen to other teams too - but it does happen to Michigan!!!

Fourth reason: LeBron James.

[madinmaryland]

40. They have gotten a lot better. There is a lot less sucking up

to U of Michigan as there used to be.

[PVnRT]

42. Sucking up to Michigan? Huh?

When the hell did that ever happen? They've done their best to fluff Ohio State for about six years.

[LisaM]

43. I think MinM was being ironic

their schadenfreude about Michigan seems to be endemic to the network.

[BlooInBloo]

39. Because they keep lowering the bar for Weiss to keep his job.

[Forkboy]

41. Belichick made the same call a few weeks ago and no one said shit when it worked.

Fuck all the pansy ass, conservative, play not to lose sad sacks. Good on Bill for playing to win. :thumbsup:

[joeybee12]

47. And you know why no one said it during that game?

EAST COAST BIAS!!!!! :evilgrin:

[Ganja Ninja]

44. I only watch it during games, pregames and to read the scores on the crawl.

I'll watch NFL if I want football info but I get enough sports talk on my ride home.

[Capt. America]

45. Agreed! Jesus Tebow. God's conference -SEC. Yankmee$. Cowboys. Irish.

[Yavin4]

48. Constant NFL Coverage Every Day of the Year

Even in early summer when NOTHING is happening in the NFL, ESPN runs an NFL segment. I love the NFL as much as the next guy, but come on. But, do we need insight and analysis of the challenges facing the Buffalo Bills in June???

[madinmaryland]

54. Actually the constant ESPN orgasms about the yankee/redsox fetish

is disgusting.