We've been together too long to hide this,
I have a desire to produce an NFL pregame show. It's fundamentally different from other shows, and we want to be interesting, funny, thoughtful, and leave viewers with something worth knowing and remembering.
I think decades of wasted time and millions of dollars can be easily fixed.
Crazy, I know.
We'll start by packing in some good stuff, like the one we saw for a few seconds on the Fox telecast earlier this month. It wasn't enough for Cowboys center Cooper Beebe to earn a spot, but now he's the team's starter — a position he never played — throwing a soccer ball at his mother in someone's backyard. It was a home video of the scene.
I sat them down and talked to them to present something that was inexpensive, noteworthy, and lastingly memorable.
I would send a staff member to follow Carl Paganelli, a federal probation officer and veteran NFL referee. Wouldn't you see that as opposed to six people talking about where the Bears are after Week 2 and threatening and warning us that we're going to go back in half?
For the future and ingrained interests of a civilized audience that doesn't have much of an interest in gambling in games, how about a weekly special where we identify and interview the most humble, team-first, polite young man on each team? mosquito?
Once the game begins, networks can shift their focus back to the players who are most intent on degrading the sport with post-play indiscretions for attention, both live and in replays, but now with a certain amount of Television guarantees against continued indiscretion.
And the end of every show included “The Stupidest Celebration of the Week.” Sunday's broadcast will highlight the Browns' defense in last week's game against the Giants, and the rehearsed celebration in the end zone after a TD on the same defense was called and resulted in a penalty back. That's what today's pros practice during practice.
And I'd like to conclude with a graphic showing the final score. In Cleveland, the Giants are 0-2 and defeated the favorite Browns 21-15.
Hey, are there that many players now that are eager to embarrass their sport? Please step back a little. What could happen with that? Who knows, it might dissuade networks from toning down their habit of hiring the worst NFL haters, who just retired from their cable show cast, to make the pregame show as excruciating as it gets Maybe even.
As for the obviously forced, desk-pounding belly laughs that have been a staple of pregame shows for 20 years, I'd like to try a well-aimed bull prod. And who wouldn't bother to look at it?
880 AM has become just a hype machine for ESPN
As expected, ESPN Radio NY's switch to 880 AM, formerly rated News Radio 880, has been filled with ESPN promotions disguised as content.
Of course, the submissive and fragile-minded Michael “Don't Call Me Sill” Kaye is the only one of his selectively outspoken and insecure co-hosts, Don La Greca and Peter Rosenberg, of the plan. It was bound to copying and further degraded as Shilluk.
Thursday, I randomly tried to tune in to the Kay Show before Cowboys vs. Giants and asked Kay and the Bad Company guests if they had a show on ESPN. bingo! The guest is former Giants defensive lineman Justin Tuck. It wasn't a bad idea until Kei revealed the reason for Tuck's existence as an errand.
Tuck is also a host on ESPN. No ESPN, no Tuck. bingo!
Again, we now know the score. It's all a scam. But please don't call Kei an idiot!
Do advertisers really believe that their viewers will be induced to buy whatever Deion Sanders stands for, even though it might cause the opposite result? Most people today wouldn't trust Coach Slime with a blank envelope.
I still don't understand why NFL players continue to toast teammates by slapping them or headbutting them in the helmet, even though they lose to concussions week after week and far too often forever.
If I were a color analyst and a lot of viewers wouldn't get it either, I would at least bring it up.
Comment from reader Joe Shepherd to Nike representative Rob Manfred: “Nothing is more iconic to the Red Sox than Clarabelle the Clown's yellow and blue costume. And it's not the uniform, it's the costume. .”
UNC paid James Madison 500 grand to torment them at home to qualify for “bowl eligibility,” only to lose last week's final 70-50 on a low note.
Where do go-green college students go to protest when there are tangible, provable, and supportable issues?
Because money can move continents, Stanford University in California is now a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The current schedule includes home and away games at Clemson, Syracuse, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest. There is also a game against Louisville, which is now a “college” in the ACC.
The expenditure of both money and transportation fuel to play a football game is huge. The same goes for the silence of student demonstrators who are sensitive to the environment. I have no choice.
Analysts aren't worth that much money.
Now that Week 4 has arrived, you'd think there would be someone in the upper echelons of the Foxes regretting signing Tom Brady to a $375 million contract. If he's a draw — and for the first time in history, not a match, but he's not — it's for those drawn to pedestrian and insight-hungry commentary.
Of course, there are very few network sports production executives who don't know what's wrong with what's wrong.
CBS's Tony Romo, who I still feel isn't that bad — he makes me laugh every now and then, and sometimes he knows exactly what's going to happen and says it — is still CBS/Paramount received a huge payout while being paid a whopping $180 million. Layoff.
I can't wait to pick up Venus Williams' new self-help book on personal integrity, authenticity, and health.
There should be a chapter about Doug Adler, who was unfairly accused of calling Williams a “gorilla” on ESPN, suffered a heart attack, and lost his career and reputation.
Williams was given the opportunity to come to Adler's defense to correct the misunderstanding, but instead she dismissed the matter as unimportant, thereby allowing an innocent person to be destroyed by a lie.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK: After Monday's game, Bills 47, Jags 10, ESPN sideline reporter Laura Rutledge asked Buffalo QB Josh Allen, “How would you describe the offensive performance tonight?”
How much better would it be if Kirk Herbstreit chose silence over empty platitudes? On Thursday night, during the Cowboys-Giants game, he wasted no time talking nonsense like, “I'm not talking to you,” “I need to adjust my play here,” and “I'm running down the hill.”
CBS' Brad Nessler and Gary Danielson, the leading duo in college football, are good enough that by now they're encouraging players (many of whom are now NIL pros) to engage in counterproductive, all-about-me, post-play cheating. should be secure enough to be prosecuted.
Again, modern sports media avoids offending the most offensive, choosing instead to offend their viewers.
In less than three hours on Thursday, the Yankees' Austin Wells was named Man of the Week, as aired on YES. He took such a hit behind the plate that the umpire would have stopped the game. And I don't think MLB players who have a grand par of $750, 20 times that of Wells, would bother running for first place.
