Imagine the T-channel. Bodybuilding, porn, Powerlifting, Olympics, porn, the “TC Power Hour”, grilling with sergio, survivor:joe wielder, and more porn.
What am I missing? Oh yeah, the victorias secret nude model contest.
[quote]tGunslinger wrote:
thunderbolt23 wrote:
I concur, RJ. Let ET cover the wedding.
As for “non-sports” getting aired on ESPN - never forget that the other networks have the contractual rights to show the games of all the mainstream sports. ESPN gets to pick over some leftovers, but they have to find other stuff to fill the time.
And I don’t find poker to be much of a sport - but apparently, tons of people love to watch it.
I still find it annoying that ESPN chooses to show those crap games and contests instead of other ‘real’ sports.
Powerlifting/O-lifting?
Lax?
Track and Field?
Wrestling?
No, instead we get poker, hotdogs, spelling bees, and dominoes.
Boo on ESPN![/quote]
Point of reference, I see collegiate wrestling on all the time on ESPN-U.
But I still agree with the general idea around here. Weddings are for women and ESPN should cover more REAL sports.
Entertainment
Sports
Programming
Network
I rarely watch it anymore because of the poker etc.
[quote]Brant_Drake wrote:
Imagine the T-channel. Bodybuilding, porn, Powerlifting, Olympics, porn, the “TC Power Hour”, grilling with sergio, survivor:joe wielder, and more porn.
What am I missing? Oh yeah, the victorias secret nude model contest.[/quote]
Crossfire II hosted by the DeezWeez.
[quote]rainjack wrote:
So I’m watching a little ESPN this morning, and I saw something that made me want to puke.
There is the talking head on Sportscenter interviewing some ditz from OK! magazine about the Tony Parker - Eva Longoria wedding.
This putz is asking her shit like, "hat is the reception like? What is the bride wearing? You know…the same crap that they talk about on E!.
IT’S A FUCKING WEDDING!!!
Since when does that make it worth 4 minutes on ESPN? [/quote]
the pussification of america continues .
these media fuckers believe that we need to know EXACTLY what goes on in the lives of these Hollyweed jerk-offs on a daily basis .
they believe this because we continue to support this belief everytime we send in our cable payment .
well , most of you anyway…cable t.v. doesnt get a god-damned penny of mine.
never will
and poker aint no sport…period .
When you start knowing stuff about Eva Longoria, Madonna and a bunch of other frivolous waste, you forget imprtant stuff like the speed and range of tanks, how to jump a dead battery and some other stuff that got blanked out.
I can’t even remember it now.
It’s like “Flowers For Algernon”. 
[quote]sob440 wrote:
it became acceptable when espn decided to devote weeks of air time to card playing, hours to eating, and I just saw the heading the other day that the National Rock paper scissor Championship will be shown this Saturday. [/quote]
Did anyone else see any of the rock paper scissors championship? I tuned in for about 5 minutes and it is exactly what it says…a bunch of people playing rock paper scissors
absolutely ridiculous
[quote]boost wrote:
sob440 wrote:
it became acceptable when espn decided to devote weeks of air time to card playing, hours to eating, and I just saw the heading the other day that the National Rock paper scissor Championship will be shown this Saturday.
Did anyone else see any of the rock paper scissors championship? I tuned in for about 5 minutes and it is exactly what it says…a bunch of people playing rock paper scissors
absolutely ridiculous[/quote]
Since we are on the topic, is anyone else perplexed that a piece of fucking paper can beat “rock”? Who thought up this shit and why did the world simply fall in line behind it? Were we running out of inanimate objects back then?
A list of much cooler inanimates that would make the game better:
A Cadillac Escalade
A pitcher of Kool-Aid (grape flavor)
Pamela Anderson’s breasts
Donald Trump’s hair
A pack of playing cards
A steak dinner
Nick Cage’s career
And lastly, a fucking giant transforming robot
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Since we are on the topic, is anyone else perplexed that a piece of fucking paper can beat “rock”? Who thought up this shit and why did the world simply fall in line behind it? Were we running out of inanimate objects back then?
A list of much cooler inanimates that would make the game better:
A Cadillac Escalade
A pitcher of Kool-Aid (grape flavor)
Pamela Anderson’s breasts
Donald Trump’s hair
A pack of playing cards
A steak dinner
Nick Cage’s career
And lastly, a fucking giant transforming robot
[/quote]
The very reason why I have a love/hate relationship with the prof.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
boost wrote:
sob440 wrote:
it became acceptable when espn decided to devote weeks of air time to card playing, hours to eating, and I just saw the heading the other day that the National Rock paper scissor Championship will be shown this Saturday.
Did anyone else see any of the rock paper scissors championship? I tuned in for about 5 minutes and it is exactly what it says…a bunch of people playing rock paper scissors
absolutely ridiculous
Since we are on the topic, is anyone else perplexed that a piece of fucking paper can beat “rock”? Who thought up this shit and why did the world simply fall in line behind it? Were we running out of inanimate objects back then?
A list of much cooler inanimates that would make the game better:
A Cadillac Escalade
A pitcher of Kool-Aid (grape flavor)
Pamela Anderson’s breasts
Donald Trump’s hair
A pack of playing cards
A steak dinner
Nick Cage’s career
And lastly, a fucking giant transforming robot
[/quote]
a fucking giant transforming robot > everything
[quote]sob440 wrote:
it became acceptable when espn decided to devote weeks of air time to card playing, hours to eating, and I just saw the heading the other day that the National Rock paper scissor Championship will be shown this Saturday. [/quote]
FUCKIN EXACTLY!!! THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT.
On this same topic what is up with the segment Sportscenter has been running lately called “whos now”
[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
As for “non-sports” getting aired on ESPN - never forget that the other networks have the contractual rights to show the games of all the mainstream sports. ESPN gets to pick over some leftovers, but they have to find other stuff to fill the time.
[/quote]
This isn’t quite true since it neglects to consider that ABC owns ESPN (unless that’s changed recently). It also doesn’t consider that for most large sports coverage arrangements, a portion of the games are sold to other networks for either regional or national coverage as a means of reducing the cost/risk to the primary purchaser.
As for poker, I enjoyed it when it was on a couple times a year, not every night.
I miss the bodybuilding coverage as well, some of the competitions that they used to show were the only source of information/ entertainment I had outside of magazines.
[quote]sob440 wrote:
it became acceptable when espn decided to devote weeks of air time to card playing, hours to eating, and I just saw the heading the other day that the National Rock paper scissor Championship will be shown this Saturday. [/quote]
These really should be reserved for coverage on ESPN 8, the “OCHO”.
I’m a Spurs fan but I HATE this Eva Longoria bullshit. I hate this Hollywood shit which is more Lakers than Spurs.
I also agree with all posters about strength and bodybuilding not ever getting covered but we get hours of poker.
The last Olympics I never saw weightlifting. When was it on? they never showed it that I can remember. When I was a kid I remember watching freaking Vasily Alexeyev and just being amazed at his absolute strength. They never show that stuff anymore. But I can watch freaking poker or some bullshit hot dog eating contest.
[quote]sob440 wrote:
it became acceptable when espn decided to devote weeks of air time to card playing, hours to eating, and I just saw the heading the other day that the National Rock paper scissor Championship will be shown this Saturday. [/quote]
HAHAHA rock paper scissor contests? WTF kind of shit are you guys making up there? Does that involve a 7 year old’s kiddie party with clowns and a petting zoo?
[quote]deputydawg wrote:
I’m a Spurs fan but I HATE this Eva Longoria bullshit. I hate this Hollywood shit which is more Lakers than Spurs.
I also agree with all posters about strength and bodybuilding not ever getting covered but we get hours of poker.
The last Olympics I never saw weightlifting. When was it on? they never showed it that I can remember. When I was a kid I remember watching freaking Vasily Alexeyev and just being amazed at his absolute strength. They never show that stuff anymore. But I can watch freaking poker or some bullshit hot dog eating contest.[/quote]
I like how everyone is complaining about the WWLIS (world wide…) isn’t showing powerlifting comps, etc. You want something to complain about, how about their disgusting ‘journalistic’ practices, whenever you see or hear that an WWLIS member has broke news you would think that they worked at it.
But no, some local actual reporter worked his butt off to get a good story, put it on a wire service, and then the ESPN ‘journalist’ reads it and ‘breaks’ it.
Or how about Harold Reynolds getting fired for no real reason (citing sexual assault but read his ‘crimes’ and compare them to Woody Paige).
How about the terrible analysts that they employ just to yell at one another (I think PTI is the exception).
As to their programming, you complain about powerlifting, how about not showing any of the Gold Cup or Copa America. Even if they don’t want to pay to show the games, the least showing some highlights on Sportscenter (rather than just display the US’ score).
Right now, the U-20 team is supposedly playing some awesome ball, but I wouldn’t know. Even if you don’t like soccer, you don’t need to debate whether or not its a fuckin sport.
ESPN has learned marketing from the parent company, and the rule is if they don’t somehow own a piece of it, they’re not going to mention it (seriously, how does the EPL got more sportscenter time than US internationals).
[quote]rsg wrote:
sob440 wrote:
it became acceptable when espn decided to devote weeks of air time to card playing, hours to eating, and I just saw the heading the other day that the National Rock paper scissor Championship will be shown this Saturday.
HAHAHA rock paper scissor contests? WTF kind of shit are you guys making up there? Does that involve a 7 year old’s kiddie party with clowns and a petting zoo?[/quote]
No joke, it was on…I am ashamed to say I watched it for as long as I did (10 minutes). I could not believe the announcers would even talk about how the people “TRAINED” yes “TRAINED” for this !!! What kind of training could there possibly be??? Finger Squats?
It is sad, hot dog shoving retards and a children’s game have now replaced actual sports and people that work hard to excel to be the best they can. Next thing you know Shakespeare will be replace in schools with “Teen Beat” magazine.
[quote]Kalle wrote:
Since they decided Sportscenter is nothing more than Entertainment Tonight for men with sports stars gossip instead of movie stars…[/quote]
About as good of an explanation as you’re going to get right there.
Just replace the old stand-by “Who’s had plastic surgery and lipo!?!?” bit with “Who’s on steroids?!?!”, and you’re good to go.