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Author: dinoscopdinoscop Date: Nov 6, 2006 20:52
Chico wrote:
>> I'm talking about ESPN. Now we've got Wilbon in the booth, following
>> the Boz and Christian Slater.
>>
>> I just read a column by some USA Today writer that said that ESPN is
>> going to milk MNF for all it can with the "entertainment" angle. Their
>> logic is that the people who are going to tune in to watch the game are
>> going to tune in regardless of what goes on in the booth, while maybe
>> ESPN can garner even more audience with this extraneous bullshit -- not
>> to mention they want to leech every last penny out of the rights fees
>> they paid for MNF by pushing and cross-promoting any product they can.
>>
>> If there's a person in the country that is tuning into MNF just to see
>> interviews with Christian Slater and The Boz, I really feel sorry for
>> that person.
>>
>> Somewhere, Cosell is spinning in his grave. Unless it's an extremely
>> compelling matchup or my Hawks are on, I'm actually going to go out of
>> my way to NOT watch MNF just because of how ridiculous this announcing
>> booth circus has become.
>>
>> Dino
>>
>
> Ryan replied with this last week when I was bitching about the MNF coverage.
>
Good idea, and I already did while Slater was still in the booth. Sad
thing is, they don't care one bit, so it won't make a bit of
difference, but it made me feel a bit better to write it.
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