ESPN Likes Stoopid People
I’ve always been a fan of Mike Leach’s “let’s pass on every down” offense at Texas Tech, and I often wondered what would happen if he got top tier athletes in his system. Well he has done just that, with legitimate Heisman hopeful Graham Harrell at QB running the show and the best WR in the country in Michael Crabtree. They are 10-0 on the season after beating Oklahoma State tonight on ABC. You can check the score(s) here.
That’s what I really wanted to talk about. ESPN may be the “Worldwide Leader in Sports,” but that doesn’t mean they are the best. I watch sports to be entertained, but I don’t need the same entertainment when being updated on scores and the like. That’s all ESPN cares about these days, trying to entertain me. Trying being the key word. All they really accomplish is to parade morons on the air, and in this case the web, who do little more than annoy. At least during the broadcast of the game they had competent people doing their jobs, unlike during the Penn State-Iowa game earlier on ABC.
People like to complain about John Madden, but at least he has a successful video game series. That’s more than I can say about the crew that helmed the Sunday Night Football games a few years back. Mike Patrick, Paul Maguire, and Joe Theismann (all right, he won a Super Bowl) collectively made up the worst announcing team in the history of mankind. I don’t know how the three worst commentators ever were selected for one team, but they were, and it wasn’t pretty. All of them should be “retired” and off the air, but I still couldn’t escape Maguire today. As if constantly making claims and almost instantly being proven weren’t bad enough on Sundays, he just has to ruin my Saturdays now. Like today, when an Iowa player was called for roughing the kicker, giving Penn State a first down. The Genius Maguire thought maybe he had touched the ball, nullifying the penalty. “OK,” I think to myself, “let’s watch the replay.” After the first angle, Genius Maguire says it’s clearly roughing the kicker, right as the second angle shows the Iowa player didn’t even run into the kicker (a less harsh penalty), and merely had the punter’s leg come down on his shoulder as he ran past him. Normally I would have been upset by the less than stellar call, but Maguire’s past idiocy only allowed me hate him even more. And his moron buddies from the past. ESPN, please stop hiring jack ass idiots. *Thanks.
*End of venting.