Things That Just Piss Me Off

ESPN has got to be the worst choice for a network to show monday night football. The annmouncers talk about everything but the game they are announcing. We have to go through breaks where ESPN has to tell us all about what’s happening in baseball. It’s not monday night baseball. It’s monday night football, a real sport.

The number of commercials have dobled since ESPN got the contract or it sure seems like it. There are new penalties for receivers throwing the ball down after a catch because the NFL says it slows the game down. Yet, when a 30 second time out gets called, the network finds a way to run 4 60 second commercials during one 30 second time out. The NFL and ESPN have learned how to fold time and space I guess.

All I know is from picking dennis miller to be a monday night football announcer, to talking about baseball during the football game, talking about other things besides the game like 10 minutes talking about niagra falls while plays are happening and being ignored by the announcers, to the number of commercials, Monday night football has lost one viewer. Me.

I love football, but I’ll just have to do something else on monday nights until ESPN loses the contract and it’s worth watching again.

Even the post game show. Right after the game ESPN ran like a 30 minute interview with some yankee guy talking about losing and being eliminated before they would even talk about the football game that was just played. The yankees lost. A 30 minute interview with the losers?

You ESPN guys thought that was more interesting than a wrap up of the football game you just showed? Or did you think the football fans would sit through all the baseball stuff to get to the post game wrap up? Or did you rightfully think this was probably the only way anyone would sit through that interview with the loser?

Stumble it!