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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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Jaxbuck said:
The thing all broadcast businesses are going to have to deal with in the next 10 years is kids my sons age don't watch entire games.

They love sports, play sports and are as big as sports nuts as any of us were as kids. They do not watch games like we do.

What was the score? Let me see some highlights and get on with my day. I see it every day with every kid my son knows.
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This is very true. Watching a sporting event on TV isn't something they do very often. I wonder how broadcasting will change because of it.
 
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LostLassie said:
Wondering how much this is generational, and how much it's the influence of the bombardment of social media, cells, etc. which lead to a shorter attention span.
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Hard to say I think.

My son is 12 so his level of concentration isn't going to be the same as an adults but I don't see a generally lower ability to concentrate from kids his age.

They tune in for 3 hour baseball games in the brutal heat, they read books and study just fine. They play video games a lot but as a child of the 80's I don't really fear that, it has really just morphed into their form of socialization.

Really hard to predict what the future will hold but I am betting we see sports content consumed differently by a major segment in the next decade or so. No idea how it will all play out. I don't know the media business at all.
 
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Dryden said:
I know a lot of people disliked Cunningham because he could come across as sanctimonious, but I liked the honesty and his ability to avoid cliched hyperbole. Always thought he was ABC/ESPN's second best color guy behind Blackledge.
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He was very low key compared to people I can't stand like Gus Johnson (come on people....we scored those 59 points, not him). But you knew before one of his games started that at some point we'd be subjected to another lecture about a hit that maybe was dangerous, maybe wasn't. Either way....he'd launch into another gripe of targeting and it would be harped on for the rest of the game.
 
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I guess 20 years on the Internet has desensitized me to soapboxes. I know exactly what you're saying; it just didn't bother me that much.

Every pbp guy (or girl) or color guy has their cringe-worthy gotos. His was less cringe-worthy than most, IMHO.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
He was very low key compared to people I can't stand like Gus Johnson (come on people....we scored those 59 points, not him). But you knew before one of his games started that at some point we'd be subjected to another lecture about a hit that maybe was dangerous, maybe wasn't. Either way....he'd launch into another gripe of targeting and it would be harped on for the rest of the game.
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This is a bad opinion.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
He was very low key compared to people I can't stand like Gus Johnson (come on people....we scored those 59 points, not him). But you knew before one of his games started that at some point we'd be subjected to another lecture about a hit that maybe was dangerous, maybe wasn't. Either way....he'd launch into another gripe of targeting and it would be harped on for the rest of the game.
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Say what you will about Gus... I was at the game and didn't get to experience it live, but 'blood thirsty' will forever live in my heart.

He'll need a decade of being a shithead before I start to change that opinion.

See what I did there?
 
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