|
|
 |
|
 |
 |
01-23-2006, 02:31 PM
|
#1 of 31 
|
|
Member
Location: Port Orchard, WA
Join Date: Feb 1999
Local Time: 09:15 AM
Local Date: 10-11-2008
Posts: 819
|
ESPN -- Stop Being So "Hip"!
I just wanted to "shout out" about ESPN. Err... rather, I wanted to complain about ESPN. Will they please, please, go back to covering sports with out all the bullshit?!
Can I just once watch Sportscenter without the constant interuptions for ridiculous nicknames and segways? "Kobe takes the ball, and drives the lane, someone call the cops then my momma because there's been a mugging out front! Booyah, slams the rock down like a dog biting the mailman! Let me holla at a playa cause your sista ain't home!"
Now, I know what you're thinking. Yeah, I don't like Stuart Scott either -- he bugs the shit out of me. But it isn't just Stuart Scott, it's every damn one of them. Just stop it, stop it please! Same thing with Chris "Boomer" Berman. Cut the nicknames, they're lame, they're not funny, they're not ironic, they aren't even good.
I like enthusiasm in sports, I don't mind a skit here or there having a good time. (Kenny Mayne's interview with Mack Strong, where everyone was giving themselves nicknames, was hilarious.) It's OK to have fun, sports are fun, games are fun. But, please, quit trying to be so damn "hip", you just come off as being lame.
(And off the subject, it takes a lot of nerve to have Kobe's 81 point game as the lead in to Sportscenter on the day after the AFC/NFC Championship games. Kobe's a ball-hog, I get it.)
Doug
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
01-23-2006, 03:22 PM
|
#2 of 31
|
|
Member
Join Date: Feb 2002
Local Time: 05:15 AM
Local Date: 10-11-2008
Posts: 9,651
|
Precisely why I cannot watch anything on ESPN other than actual sporting events. The anchors/interviewers all think they're more important than the event/player they're covering.
And "hip/slang" type language bugs the hell out of me anyway.
|
|
|
|
|
01-23-2006, 04:31 PM
|
#3 of 31
|
|
Member
Location: The basement of the FBI building
Join Date: Nov 2004
Local Time: 09:15 AM
Local Date: 10-11-2008
Posts: 9,648
|
Admittedly, I only see ESPN (or any sports stuff) when someone else turns it on but I find it funny that their style has been stolen but every other sports commentator on TV. It seems like every one of those guys thinks that they're doing comedy instead of reporting on a game.
You don't hear the meteorologist saying "Booyah! Rain tommorow!" or "Like Nelly says 'It's gettin hot in here' tomorrow"  |
|
|
|
|
01-23-2006, 04:33 PM
|
#4 of 31
|
|
Member
Join Date: Aug 2001
Local Time: 05:15 AM
Local Date: 10-11-2008
Posts: 7,672
|
Someone elsewhere said it best...ESPN is to sports what MTV is to music.
|
|
|
|
|
01-23-2006, 05:14 PM
|
#5 of 31
|
|
Member
Join Date: Feb 2003
Local Time: 03:15 AM
Local Date: 10-11-2008
Posts: 700
|
Quote:
|
Can I just once watch Sportscenter without the constant interuptions for ridiculous nicknames and segways? "Kobe takes the ball, and drives the lane, someone call the cops then my momma because there's been a mugging out front! Booyah, slams the rock down like a dog biting the mailman! Let me holla at a playa cause your sista ain't home!"
|
They made fun of this on SNL years ago when Ray Romano hosted. I never watch sports coverage, only the games themselves, so I had no idea they were actually like this.
|
|
|
|
|
01-23-2006, 05:38 PM
|
#6 of 31
|
|
Member
Join Date: Jun 2001
Local Time: 05:15 AM
Local Date: 10-11-2008
Posts: 840
|
Yeah, ESPN needs to cut out the BS. The only thing I can stand to watch on the network is PTI.
As for Kobe, with that team he's on, I don't mind if he keeps shooting. What other chance do they have? Besides, if he was really such a bad guy, wouldn't be have stayed in that Dallas came back in December when he had 62 after 3 quarters? If Jordan had poured in 81, we'd all be falling over ourselves to celebrate the achievement. I'm not a Kobe fan by any means and I despise the Lakers, but the hatred of Kobe is going way too far.
|
|
|
|
|
01-23-2006, 07:04 PM
|
#7 of 31
|
|
Member
Location: Port Orchard, WA
Join Date: Feb 1999
Local Time: 09:15 AM
Local Date: 10-11-2008
Posts: 819
|
Britton -- ? I don't hate Kobe. Honestly, I'm not much of an NBA fan anymore. I'll watch the finals, but that's about it. My statement was more of surprise that they would have a basketball highlight front Sportscenter when 2 games deciding conference championships were on the same day.
I'm entertained by PTI, but don't like the Around the Horn at all. (And REALLY didn't like Fox Sports rip-off show, I-Max, that didn't last.)
Doug
|
|
|
|
|
01-23-2006, 07:27 PM
|
#8 of 31
|
|
Location: No, I did not co-create South Park
Join Date: Jun 2000
Local Time: 05:15 AM
Local Date: 10-11-2008
Posts: 10,442
|
Quote:
|
My statement was more of surprise that they would have a basketball highlight front Sportscenter when 2 games deciding conference championships were on the same day.
|
I kind of agree with you...but, c'mon...the second best scoring performance in the history of the game. Seems like pretty big news to me. Now, if either of the NFL conference championship games had been interesting, you may have an argument.
As for the ESPN style...that's why I gave up on Sportscenter 10 years ago. The only thing I still watch regularly besides the games is College Gameday. |
|
|
|
|
01-23-2006, 09:12 PM
|
#9 of 31
|
|
Member
Location: West Lafayette, IN
Join Date: May 2004
Local Time: 04:15 AM
Local Date: 10-11-2008
Posts: 247
|
Quote:
|
They made fun of this on SNL years ago when Ray Romano hosted. I never watch sports coverage, only the games themselves, so I had no idea they were actually like this.
|
"But in my book, you gotta get to Whitecastle before the weirdos show up! Tonight at the Alamodome, he gets Happy-Go-Jackie on the big white guy like a donkey eating a waffle! Sweet Sassy Molassey! Get out the checkbook and pay grandma for the rubdown!"
I think of that skit everytime I watch Sportscenter.  |
|
|
|
|
01-24-2006, 03:05 PM
|
#10 of 31
|
|
Member
Join Date: Jan 2003
Local Time: 09:15 AM
Local Date: 10-11-2008
Posts: 513
|
I watch SC every morning and agree. There is too much BS. I just want them to report the highlights/scores as is without hype.
Stuart Scott is awful. He needs to move on from ESPN. Plus, his lazy eye creepy.
I enjoy listening to Linda Cohn reportin | |
