I hate the whole “sponsorship” BS that ESPN is dialing up to 1 million with its new, awful version of Monday Night Football. If an adult man named “Booger” commentating the game from a little car on the sideline wasn’t bad enough, now EVERYTHING is sponsored. We’re talking the halftime show “brought to you by Genesis” or the unnecessary “musical guest” segments or even the pregame featuring garbage chain chicken wings. There is simply no authenticity left to this broadcast product.
And “Rollerball” was just supposed to be a movie :)
Remember when stadiums were named after the TEAMS?
I have no idea what’s going on during NFL telecasts since I refuse to watch but I’ve noticed something similar is happening in baseball where they are now inserting split screen ads during almost any time out. Soon it will be: “This next pitch brought to you by Gillette”. Really pathetic.
On the other hand, if they would switch to almost all “during inning” ads, and eliminate the between innings ads, we could maybe reduce the time it takes to play a normal game to under 3 and a half hours. Which would be nice.
So like 25 years ago. Only thing about this that’s different is who is sponsoring what this season.
ESPN is dead to me....I don’t watch them, ever.
ESPN used to be cool. Drag boat racing, white water river jet boast racing, I even watched lawn-tractor tractor pulls on one night. Just all sorts of things that were sports that even poor people did. Basic half-mile dirt IMCA, to ISMA Super Modifed racing.
Once they signed with the NFL they dropped all of the cool stuff and went totally commercial.