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How stupid does ESPN look ...

Frayed Knot Aug 18 2010 02:17 PM

... concerning this whole Favre farce? I mean it's only been, what?, a month ago or so that they, based on seemingly nothing more than rumors (and bad ones at that as it turns out), ran with the latest retirement story out of Mississippi to the extent of basically preempting regular programming for an entire day and turning themselves into the all-Brett network. Well, at least it's not like there was some sort of track record of him going back on "unequivocal" announcements or anything that might burn them -- Oh wait! ... or that their decision to devote entire one-hour SportsCenters to summing up the career of the guy who would never set foot on a football field again involved absolutely no word from the man himself of the team he was under contract to would get them flunked out of a junior high-school journalism class -- oh wait! ... or that they have multiple employees who basically have their mail forwarded at this time each year to a tent city on the guy's front lawn and ONCE AGAIN couldn't get the story right -- oh wait! On the other hand, I don't think they're a bit embarrassed about the whole thing. They'll just look at it as getting TWO days of Brett-centric programming out of it all and who needs credibility when you've got hype. Nor will it stop them from going to their "football insiders" to get you the scoop on what's news in the world of the NFL as if those guys that they tout as know-it-alls haven't mis-read the landscape worse and more often than Neville Chamberlain.

cooby Aug 18 2010 02:49 PM Re: How stupid does ESPN look ...

Kinda like the Weather Channel if they expect a blizzard in February. Top news about nothing special.

metirish Aug 18 2010 03:08 PM Re: How stupid does ESPN look ...

I shouldn't be surprised but I still am at how worked up in to a frenzy espn gets over Favre, who is their audience for this garbage. I really don't even watch espn anymore except if the Mets are on.

MFS62 Aug 19 2010 08:05 AM Re: How stupid does ESPN look ...

If there had been no Favre, would ESPN have had to invent him? On ESPN radio this morning, sometime host Eric Isilias said that the best thing about the last two days of Favre frenzy is that its now over. Later

Ceetar Aug 19 2010 08:17 AM Re: How stupid does ESPN look ...

MFS62 wrote: If there had been no Favre, would ESPN have had to invent him? On ESPN radio this morning, sometime host Eric Isilias said that the best thing about the last two days of Favre frenzy is that its now over. Later It's not just ESPN either though. Some people just get designated "celebrities" and get the added attention for some reason, whether or not they do anything. (Kardashians, Hilton, etc)

Frayed Knot Aug 19 2010 08:35 AM Re: How stupid does ESPN look ...

But it's not just that ESPN has bought into the celebrity culture with Favre - hell, they do that with dozens of athletes - it's that they made themselves into such fools by treating last month's retirement [u:3rsludfa]RUMORS[/u:3rsludfa] as "Breaking News" and buying into it with such conviction that they never questioned whether they were getting burned for the umpteenth time as they launched into all-day programming designed to sum up the career of someone whose status hadn't changed. And now, just weeks later, they want to pretend as if that whole episode never happened and that their "reporters and insiders" - who botched the previous chapter so badly that they, in a perfect world, would be too embarrassed to ever show their faces again - are the ones to give us the latest as they dedicate an entire day to covering his "return".

Ashie62 Aug 19 2010 12:54 PM Re: How stupid does ESPN look ...

metirish wrote: I shouldn't be surprised but I still am at how worked up in to a frenzy espn gets over Favre, who is their audience for this garbage. I really don't even watch espn anymore except if the Mets are on. ESPN's audience is folks kinda like us.

metsguyinmichigan Aug 19 2010 03:47 PM Re: How stupid does ESPN look ...

Are you kidding? It's a win-win for ESPN. They carried the day on both days. Look at the LeBron fiasco. They built up all that hype leading to "The Decision" then spent the next weeks rehyping by complaining about the hype AS IF THEY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. Then they go an throw an ombudsman report on the website and treat that as news, too! I firmly believe they've moved far beyond sports coverage and reporting and are deep into sports entertainment. Sports aren't the show, darn it. THEY are the show.