(ignore the old TV)
an ESPN+ exclusive fight has literally nothing to do with the football
I hate to be the guy to tell you, man. But, they’ve been doing this shit for like, 30 years man.
I can’t ignore the old TV.
I’m honestly impressed there are still functional, floor-model rear-projection TVs.
I clean out houses for a living, you’d be very shocked how many functional rear projection and CRTs are in use and get thrown out “because old”.
Heart wrenching and entirely understandable. Those things are both magnificent and inconvenient these days
And the picture quality is terrible by modern standards. Give me OLED any day.
This is a weird take. That ticker telling you about scores and schedules for a whole bunch of different sports has been on ESPN forever.
While I understand their point, it’s like going to the channel with the stock market banner on the bottom and complaining it is taking up part of the screen, where I would almost say the other 90% of the screen is the ads.
So many hours spent watching that as a child. It was either that channel or Bob Barker when I was on summer break
I am not going to ignore the old TV. That’s rad as hell and I am jealous.
That rear projection beast was the best darn television for tests years until Pioneer made plasmas. I miss ours deeply and wish we’d had the space to keep it (especially for retro gaming and the yearly playing of the Star Wars laser disk).
Isn’t the whole point of sports to be able to advertise?
Is it? I thought it was to get more points than the other team. I’ve been playing wrong this whole time?
Definitely playing wrong. It’s about money, Gatorade, and getting enough CTE to justify killing your wife. /s
Nah, that is to keep potential clients interested.
They keep adding rules to the sport to make it more “TV viewing friendly”, meaning more breaks to show ads. I mean, the superbowl is just ads with sport attached.
Look at the sports with systemic ad presence vs sports where it’s all “grass roots.” (The grass roots ones are mostly gone.)
Most top sports are incredibly expensive to keep running and the ones that become infested with ads are the ones that stick around for us to enjoy. If you follow less popular sports you’ll consider yourself lucky to bring in ads and sponsors.
