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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux said:
Or they are intentionally hiring meat heads who are prone to yelling.
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I don't watch much ESPN anymore, but I remember watching PTO with Kornheiser and Wilbon and appreciating the conversation, actually listening and responding, and no shouting (other than occasional spurts from Wilbon).

Then ESPN pushed out Stephen A Smith, Skip Bayless, McAfee, Shannon Sharpe, etc. etc.

I just want to be able to turn ESPN on and watch Sportscenter re-runs with smart smartasses making commentary sometimes while I eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch and pray for a snowday.
 
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bigdog3300 said:
I don't watch much ESPN anymore, but I remember watching PTO with Kornheiser and Wilbon and appreciating the conversation, actually listening and responding, and no shouting (other than occasional spurts from Wilbon).

Then ESPN pushed out Stephen A Smith, Skip Bayless, McAfee, Shannon Sharpe, etc. etc.

I just want to be able to turn ESPN on and watch Sportscenter re-runs with smart smartasses making commentary sometimes while I eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch and pray for a snowday.
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I remember in college (90s) we always quoted ESPN personalities. Between quoting 80s & 90s movies, the "infuego" or "Gianluca Pagliuca" type quotes were always good for laughs.
 
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bigdog3300 said:
I just want to be able to turn ESPN on and watch Sportscenter re-runs with smart smartasses making commentary sometimes while I eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch and pray for a snowday.
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Ha! I like thinking back to watching ESPN when it wasn’t a WWE wannabe and watching sport center re runs the morning before school started but I don’t know what this “snow day” thing is.
 
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colobuck79 said:
Who in the upper management at ESPN thinks that we want to watch a bunch of analysts yelling during these programs? It has to be a conscious decision because normal people would just talk in a normal voice I think. So they are telling these rubes to yell. Right?
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It’s no different than what we see across the board today. Yell and say outlandish stupid shit that you don’t have to defend. The more you say it and the more it permeates across social media, it then becomes up to everyone else to decide what’s real.
 
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bigdog3300 said:
I don't watch much ESPN anymore, but I remember watching PTO with Kornheiser and Wilbon and appreciating the conversation, actually listening and responding, and no shouting (other than occasional spurts from Wilbon).

Then ESPN pushed out Stephen A Smith, Skip Bayless, McAfee, Shannon Sharpe, etc. etc.

I just want to be able to turn ESPN on and watch Sportscenter re-runs with smart smartasses making commentary sometimes while I eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch and pray for a snowday.
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Agreed re: PTO. The last watchable show on that network.
 
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The Athletic broke this story - for those with a subscription, it provides even more details behind the scheme. Overall pretty hilarious and pretty sad.
Since at least 2010, ESPN inserted fake names in Emmy entries, then took the awards won by some of those imaginary individuals, had them re-engraved and gave them to on-air personalities.

Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Chris Fowler, Desmond Howard and Samantha Ponder, among others, were given the ill-gotten Emmys, according to a source briefed on the matter, who was granted anonymity because the individual is not authorized to discuss it publicly. There is no evidence that the on-air individuals were aware the Emmys given to them were improperly obtained.
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The list of fake producer names was ridiculously close to the on-air talent to theoretically make the re-engraving process easier. “Lee Clark” was a placeholder for Lee Corso, “Dirk Howard” was there for Desmond Howard, and “Chris Fulton” for Chris Fowler, even “Erik Andrews” for Erin Andrews. It’s so brazen and yet so obvious you almost have to marvel at how it could go on for years without being noticed. Were Harry and Marv from Home Alone behind this?
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The totally bizarre thing about this is it was a total vanity project designed to make the on-air talent, who already have their own Emmy categories, feel rewarded. None of the on-air talent were evidently aware they were receiving fraudulent trophies and odds are none of them would have been pining for one in the first place when they were given to the crew behind the cameras. It’s one of the most absurd, unnecessary, pointless, laughable scandals in ESPN history.
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awfulannouncing.com

ESPN caught in ridiculously dumb Emmy fraud scandal

ESPN admitted to submitting fake names for Emmy Awards and then re-engraving real names on the trophies to give to on-air talent.
awfulannouncing.com
 
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