Knox The Hatter
2nd Level Indigo Feather
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"You're watching a tense Major League Baseball playoff game and suddenly, in the middle of an at-bat, there is some inane interview coming at you from the stands with some announcer you don't know talking to somebody you don't care about, all the while critical action on the diamond is being ignored.
You're watching a football game - any football game, college, pro, whatever- and just as you've become engrossed in the action, there is a sideline reporter talking inane stuff. Whoever invented sideline reporters?
There is a conviction among TV executives that nobody cares about sports, that watching a game - any game - is the most boring thing in the world. So it must be jazzed up in any extraneous way possible. Show outrageous fans, do airhead interviews, play screeching music, have game commentators talk about anything but the game.
It's hell being a purist these days, being a sports fan who just wants to see sports. Hell trying to watch a pregame show and get nothing but ludicrous banter among ex-jocks hired because they can make ludicroius banter. And that's not even to mention the non-stop barrage of promos for network shows no one with an IQ over 75 would watch."
-Harvey Yavener, THE TRENTON TIMES 10/3/03
Well, if anyone ever wondered what prompted ESPN to put someone like Rush Limbaugh on an NFL pregame show, of all people, here's a good description of the soil that would germinate such an idea. He's gone now. What's next? Hey, why not have Gary Coleman give the fan's perspective? Or, Ben Affleck? Better yet, one of those schmucky losers from "American Idol" or "Survivor"?
You're watching a football game - any football game, college, pro, whatever- and just as you've become engrossed in the action, there is a sideline reporter talking inane stuff. Whoever invented sideline reporters?
There is a conviction among TV executives that nobody cares about sports, that watching a game - any game - is the most boring thing in the world. So it must be jazzed up in any extraneous way possible. Show outrageous fans, do airhead interviews, play screeching music, have game commentators talk about anything but the game.
It's hell being a purist these days, being a sports fan who just wants to see sports. Hell trying to watch a pregame show and get nothing but ludicrous banter among ex-jocks hired because they can make ludicroius banter. And that's not even to mention the non-stop barrage of promos for network shows no one with an IQ over 75 would watch."
-Harvey Yavener, THE TRENTON TIMES 10/3/03
Well, if anyone ever wondered what prompted ESPN to put someone like Rush Limbaugh on an NFL pregame show, of all people, here's a good description of the soil that would germinate such an idea. He's gone now. What's next? Hey, why not have Gary Coleman give the fan's perspective? Or, Ben Affleck? Better yet, one of those schmucky losers from "American Idol" or "Survivor"?
