It’s wild to me that the suits are jamming ads into the Redzone channel and making you get 4 streaming packages to watch all the football and yet if you watch a game in 4k it’s commercial free and you just get to watch fans coming back from getting beers and taking selfies

With transfers so commonplace now, I think the player bio graphic should work in that info now. What year are they, size, hometown, and if they originally played elsewhere. Not showing that info gives the announcers another thing to communicate versus having it display.

I simply cannot with this name

I went out to do some errands and my wife told me “stay away from Ryan Day’s house”.

Kirk Herbstreit looks like your friend who went on vacation , but lost his suitcase, so he has to wear only clothes he’s borrowing from all of his friends

Declaring a New Year’s Resolution that we will NOT, I repeat NOT, purchase any ball for dogs that are small enough to roll under couches

The ESPN CFP scorebug yellow flash has annoyed viewers. awfulannouncing.com/espn/cfp-sco...

This is where it was lost. Got behind the sticks. Then giving up 20 yards on the punt penalty and another ten seconds

Buckeyes end the year with back to back games going scoreless for a full half and having a key missed FG. Pick six was near fatal. Offensive line didn’t hold up. Playcalling was bad. Lot to be desired offensively. Defense deserved better. Much better. Well done Miami.

Ryan Day still fucking up when to use timeouts when trailing is absolutely insane behavior.

Give the sticks back to Hartline. This is a trainwreck.

Lot of moving parts, but absolutely cannot have this happen. Will be forgotten, but what a dumb thing to happen at this moment.

Legitimately curious if ESPN and other media companies have ever inquired with Meta what they are doing to curb fake news ragebait produced abroad that targets talent. Legitimately believe a non nominal part of ESPN’s reputational issues trace back to from Vietnam, Philippines, etc

Loaded question!!!

I know ESPN having so many games and bowls, they can’t always have top of the line equipment, trucks, and production. That said the Iowa vs Vanderbilt bowl has absolutely dreadful picture quality. We got to be able to do better than this.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

These companies are in court saying that what they do is not sports betting. Meanwhile…

Ben Johnson and Kyle Shanahan are having the time of their lives tonight

I think he’ll pass Faulk and that would be pretty cool. 7k would be cool as hell.

If Noah Eagle calls games up to the age Al Michaels is now, he’s be still calling games in 2077.

A reminder that yes, it can feel like bowls are dying with teams and players sitting+some meh games but at the end of the day... The continuance of specific bowls will boil down to whether a suit can pencil out in a spreadsheet that it will continue to make money

Was honestly ass to the point where I think the NFL will nudge Netflix to flush them the toilet forever.

I took a stab at what stood out in our inaugural CFB media bias rankings as voted on by our readers.

Appreciated all of those who voted. Working on a takeaways article now. Think this is a great exercise that we'll run back next year, and is probably helpful to the networks to see.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

And here we are once again, only ownership’s motives are much much worse than cowardice

What do we think the backstory is for the whistling Corona Christmas guy? Married? Divorced? Retired? Who is this man?

Fuck David Ellison and Bari Weiss

The WSJ feature on David Ellison was informative

Bari Weiss is really bad at her job, until you realize it's her job to be really bad at her job, in which case she is excellent at her job

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Given its reach and history, it’s hard to understate the significance of 60 Minutes. This season has felt a lot softer and entertainment focused in terms of story selection and tone. Would strongly recommend the movie The Insider if you haven’t seen already.

Looking forward to the Jake Paul, Andrew Tate, and Puka Nacua livestream

what are they hiding

🎯 Not just Schefter but this absolutely nails it. The NFL, Rams, and Puka released statements on the anti semitic comments. But media outlets, especially those with a relationship with the league, clearly chose to focus on the referee comments versus the bigger issue.

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Very interested to see how Amazon handles this tonight. There are the ref comments and the anti semitic dance stories. His agent said “No comment needed.” Nothing from Puka, the Rams, or the NFL. Will they go kickoff without anything and then how does Amazon handle?

It's rather incredible to me how many sports outlets' primary takeaway from this livestream was that Nacua criticized NFL refs and not that he did something EXTREMELY antisemitic during it. AA is practically the only one to actually highlight this.

There is a legitimate chance that the two TNT CFP games get tripled, or even quadrupled, ratings-wise by the NFL games. This is such a bad setup for TNT and the CFP. The NFL is muscling them off this day.

I now call when a network is planning on letting someone’s contract lapse because they are uncomfortable with their public comments outside of sports “Tafoying”.

I think to be frank a tough thing to realize is that we live in a world that is much worse than any one we could have reasonable imagined growing up

Mike Brown is such a cheap loser and it’s widely known and well documented. Your fans show up after a big snowstorm to watch a 4-9 team and you don’t even do the most basic and required courtesy. Coming from a former A’s fan, a shit owner just a terrible thing to endure

The more serious the story, the less ESPN needs to feed/force the ball to their newsbreakers. This was understood for years but has reversed in more recent years. Internally, a lot of ESPN folks are unhappy with how the network is covering serious news.

Not a real source or person. Trolling shit poster. Duped a lot of people last few weeks. The people who run Twitter are morons for letting this continue unabated.

loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default

When I moved to Columbus, a part of that was I just felt from a connections, network, and local interest POV, the Bay Area was not a good fit for what I do. Just pulled this report for an AA sponsorship. 100 index = US internet average. For AA: SJ/OAK/SF = 49 Columbus =505

He kept going around in circles on this and then got even weirder when Finebaum pushed back a little bit. Frankly, everyone on First Take was uncomfortable. IMO ESPN would be wise to ease off Schefter as a leading reporter on the Moore firing. He's clearly conflicted.

College was such a blur, I don't even remember this.

I do sympathize for Notre Dame and think they have many legitimate beefs, but the expanding Pete Bevacqua grievance tour is totally counterproductive the longer it goes on. It's the same material and gripes. Subtle threats. It's run its course at this point.