Monday Night Vickball
Did we hear from the dogs yet? I'm sorry, but I tuned to ESPN last night to watch a football game, not the life and times of a dog murderer. How 'bout you? I'd rather not view the Bengals on TV through a pair of binoculars, especially when I'm only 6 feet away and sitting on my couch. But every couple seconds, ESPN shrunk the game screen so we could watch Vick leaving the courthouse or listen to some new Head tell us what it all means. Enough already. Vick was/is a great athlete and a really mediocre quarterback who engaged in a disgusting hobby. He said he made a "mistake.'' Uh, no.
A mistake is adding two and two and getting five. It's ordering the chicken when you really wanted the fish. It's not bankrolling a dogfighting ring, then torturing the dogs that didn't perform well.
Regardless, once again an actual event plays second to an overblown melodrama. Vick's the Lindsey Lohan of the NFL. I didnt care about her, either.
posted by Paul Daugherty at 8:11 AM
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Post a Comment*Doc,
Right On. I thoughte same thing watching last night. The game please, not a soap opera.
Doc--
The heck with all of this...how about Radio Nowhere? "Is there anybody alive out there?"
And I thought last year's interruption of football for celeb interviews during the second quarter was annoying! Were there really people tuning in to ESPN hoping that MNF wouldn't interrupt too much Vick coverage?
As far as ESPN coverage goes, at least this year they have one-third of a respectable team of announcers, which is more than in years past. Also I've noticed that when they do show the game, they pan out so you can see the alignment of the offense and defense which is an improvement.
Russ H.
Mt. Lookout
Paul - The joke was on Sunday Night Football with Keith Olberman's Countdown premiering just before the game. When Olberman stated that Rush Limbaugh was the "worst" person in the world, right behind Bill O'Reilly, guest Cris Collinsworth challenged him on it. So much for the political savvy of Olberman, who was left with his foot in his mouth. Olberman's Countdown runs nightly on MSNBC so they thought they'd give him a shot at the big time and Collinsworth stepped all over him. The interesting part was that Olberman had gone on to a Michael Vick segment when Collinsworth, totally out of the blue, spouted "Hey, I don't think Rush Limbaugh is the worst person in the world." Classic pre-game TV that turned real political. Olberman loves to slam Rush and other successful conservative radio icons. Now collinsworth slams Olberman on his network deput. I can see the phones still lighting up.
MNF used to be about football with a discussion of what was going on on the field and why. Kornheiser is a talker with nothing to talk about, Tirico can't stay on point and Jaws is.....
I can't stand to watch it anymore and have been going to the radio more and more.
Couldn't agree more, Paul. I turned off the game because I couldn't stand the nonstop Vick coverage. Enough already!
When I had enough of the "Vick Bowl I" I turned down the sound and flipped on the radio....But, I can only handle Lapham for a series or two. He makes a Rudi Johnson two yard loss sound like Barry Sanders setting the rushing record. WHOA....
I hope the defense is still playing "vanilla" not wanting to show future opponants anything on film. They're doing a great job in that regard.
It was sad in the sense that they were missing great plays ON the field. Very pathetic overall.
my favorite was the interview in the fourth quarter with Scooby Doo. He and the gang sure solved another mystery. Did you hear the clip where Vick said he would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids?
I should have checked with Court TV or CNN to see if they were showing football.... Maybe ESPN wanted to swap out with someone for the night ( a little change of pace)
Who let the dogs out? Couldn't tell if it was the announcers, the Ben-dulls or M. Vick. You can have all the bums. A little pre-season football on tv helps prep you for doing something more interesting on Sunday afternoons and Sunday, Monday, Thursday evenings.
I'm going anon on this because I'm just to friggin' tired of caring about 'sports'.
Oh, I see that NBC or whoever got Paul Gardner all lit up!
Can someone please tell me why this is news? How many dogs have the "humane" shelters killed, er, "euthanized"? Why isn't anyone upset about chicken-fighting rings? Is it because we like to eat chickens, while Fido has become part of the family? Meanwhile, millions of human babies are killed in the U.S., and the only people being arrested are the ones that protest it.......
Anon 8:54, I must have missed that Scooby interview. Was that before or after the panel discussion they had with Lassie, Benji, Marmaduke, and Rin tin tin?
ESPN didn't have to cover the game too closely for viewers to see the worst defense in the NFL. They made a bad quarterback (Harrington) look like a pro-bowler. This defense is '90s-bad.
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