way backwards Now I agree that just like with car companies you can't ONLY have car guys in charge, you need some balanced views The same applies to ESPN, they've turned into the Enquirer, with flashy graphics and less content by the day, all repeated breathlessly every 23 minutes. While ignoring F1 racing, Tour de France racing and loads of other legit 'sports'. They cover less and less and do so more and more poorly.
good points especially on f1 racing had a couple friends who loved f1 and espn had pretty good coverage... back in the 90's can't recall the last time they covered it
Yeah they don't even try to care anymore Football, baseball, basketball and maybe a little hockey, as if that were the entire world of sports. Being of the longer view like yourself I recall ABC's Wide World of Sports which just about died when ESPN came into life. Now it's ESPN or nothing, and ESPN gives so little that it's just begging for a full contact Sports Network competitor and no not some contrived Sportsnet that only (refuses) to show Dodgers games
Only turn to ESPN when there is a game on I really want to watch. Otherwise, I try to avoid ESPN at all costs. Never any interesting dialogue....just the same debates about the same 3-4 topics every day. Really boring.
I just realized the only TV I really watch is ball games, and fall primetime TV shows, usually the CBS ones, because they are like the only network with good shows. Otherwise there is nothing else on. After games end I usually get on my phone look up an hour later and realized I haven't turned it from the MLB extra innings channel that is blank
TV is a wasteland outside of sports. Mindless drivel, talking heads spouting shit no one will ever fact check. Which makes ESPN's more recent Enquirer-ization even worse Skip and Shannon? Come on now nothing but blowhards allowed, and they rarely talk sports
From the LA Times. Had no idea numbers were down that much. What say you, K Man of Servite? Numbers continue to dwindle: More than 25,000 fewer students played high school football nationwide in 2016-17. The decline can be seen on lower-level programs. Long Beach Poly, with an enrollment of more than 4,000 students, dropped junior varsity football. Anaheim Servite started out with 135 freshmen and 271 players overall in 2010. This season, there are 128 students in the program, including 54 freshmen. Pasadena Blair, Sun Valley Village Christian and Huntington Beach Brethren Christian dropped their football programs. Others are switching from 11-man to eight-man football. It hasn’t reached the panic stage, with the demise of tackle football imminent, but the decline in numbers is real. Schools are going to need to start convincing skeptical parents and students that the sport is safe, fun and provides an invaluable learning experience.
Hmmm.....one of the most violent of professional sports, with no guarateed contracts for most of the players in the highest injury positions, while the owners are making dough hand over fist, even in stupid meaningless pre season games. So this is really no surprise. The NFL maybe their own worst enemy.
I think it's mostly about the injury risks, not some extremely far fetched pot of gold at the end of the rainbow (NFL). Another is likely the changing demographics in Calif. Latino kids probably lean more towards soccer, wrestling or cross country over football.
Interesting graph. Tennis helped me pay for a lot of my college, but it was very tough to remain on scholarship. I was one of two Americans on the team with most of the team being from Spain or Argentina. Ultimately, my partying ways did me in and I stopped playing after my junior year to "focus on my studies" which was a bullshit excuse to avoid getting my ass kicked my senior year by all the young talent that trained way harder than me.
I bought a big new TV for black friday but have only watched Rogue One on it and a few episodes of Ozark. I mostly put it on youtube with some old asian lady doing taichi or on that retrowave channel.
The fact that they train young men into the art of dangerous violence and aggression at places of supposed learning, education, and social betterment... is either retarded or crazy like a fox dressed up as a cock in a henhouse. Hey, you gotta cut them weeds off at the root if you dont want too many of them to grow up and take away the ground from your darling little snowflakes. Now lets play some football!
No I agree. My comment was more focused on the issue of those that actually have the talent to play a sport at a very high level, potentially professionally, there is this huge cost benefit analysis that has to take place. If I were thinking about making sports my actual profession, with what we know about the dangers of contact sports, and Pro Football being one of those high impact sports, it seems the players in the NFL have it the worst. The owners almost literally own these players is a way that is not as true with baseball or basketball. Hockey might be close to football in that manner. The NFLPA is absolutely powerless vs the owners and Godell. And yet these players risk everything about their physical well being every game, practice, scrimmage, etc. Edelman might have just messed up his knee for the season because of a stupid pre season game. It seems almost unfair. I think something similar happened to the Packers last year. It's even worse at the college level. You got these slick coaches that woo players to come to their school....but the coach/college have absolutely no qualms about pulling the scholarship if the kid busts a knee and can't play. That should be illegal and a crime, but it happens. Or the coach, who has been breaking the recruiting rules suddenly leaves his recruits in the lurch, gets an NFL job and watches his college get crushed with fines 3 years after he leaves. It just feels like this happens more in football than any other sport. And yes, it's because so much money is involved. Now with the chance you are causing yourself massive permanent brain damage.....maybe the equation as tipped over. This is what the NFL was so afraid of with CTE and Bennett Amolu. They destroyed him to keep the money flowing. BTW, soccer in Europe/UK is facing different issues.....sexually abusing kids in premier level feeder and training clubs. It's sick and been going on for decades. But the fame and money of trying to make a top level pro team.....and the shame of being a victim of these perverts....it's been buried for so long. In the US, thank god soccer isn't such a dominant sport as it is everywhere else....but if it ever did....watch out.
Oh Cheat Carroll you mean? I mean I personally hate USC but what he did there was criminal. Pinned the whole mess on Reggie Bush. No stones
Edelman done for the season, ACL Unforgiving sport, just another example of why it´s so hard to repeat as Super Bowl champs Anyway, one less magical midget receiver for the RAIDERS to chase around in Mexico Almost saw OBJ get his knee shredded too, NYG also on the RAIDERS schedule
