It all starts with ESPN's new marketing tool, Sportscenter live from 9-3. When I was growing up Sportscenter was the best thing. You could watch highlights, see games you did not get on tv, and get insight into your favorite teams or sports. Mixed with the wit and sarcasm of the anchors Sportscenter was always a good hour of television.
But going live from 9-3 is too much. Especially when they talk about the same things over, and over, and over! Enough with talking about Tom Brady's injury and how the Patriots will move on, we heard you the first time they will go with Matt Cassel. There is no need to constantly beat sports stories to death. All they are doing is ruining the excitement of sports.
Another thing ESPN does well is use past athletes to talk about their sports. For example, Orel Hersheiser, a former pitcher often talks on ESPN or co-hosts baseball games. Or Emmit Smith, perhaps one of the greatest running backs to ever play, who now works on NFL Countdown. These are players who know what they are talking about. So can ESPN stop hiring people who did not make it in their respective sports such as Tim Hasselbeck or Steve Phillips who could not cut it as a GM. There should just be a rule that if you did not have a good career, you can not work for ESPN.
While ESPN has helped spread sports across America and the world, at this rate no one will want anything to do with sports because ESPN will over saturate it to death.
2 comments:
I total agree with what your saying about ESPN. I do agree that the hiring of ex superstars is a good way to make their show better. I hate Steve Phillps on baseball tonight becuase he talks about how he would do things differently on a certain team, meanwhile he couldnt get it done when he was in charge of one. They need to also take it easy with the repeats I cant tell you how much I heard about Tom Brady, or the Brett FArve situations.
I do like that they feature such a wide range of sports, though---stuff you'd never see elsewhere.
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