I was curious who is even doing their Sunday NFL countdown show these days. Haven't watched in years, probably since Berman retired.

Apparently it's somebody named Samantha Ponder as host as well as Tedy Bruschi, Randy Moss, and Rex Ryan, with Hasselbeck recently getting axed. Whether they'll replace any of those others remains to be seen, but I don't see anybody that makes me really go, "Oh, that guy says cool and funny things all the time! It's probably worth my time to watch this!"

Only so many times you can get good TV out of a former diva WR, a dick-sucking Patriot blowhard whose only contribution is telling players to do their jobs, and an old man yelling at a cloud because you can't hit QBs anymore.

They still have a metric shitton of NFL guys.

Damien Woody
Orlovsky
Bruschi
Ninkovich
Moss
Rex Ryan
Louis Reddick
Herm
I'm sure I'm missing a few...

By their own doing. They set the rates they pay for broadcasting rights to games so they respond with stupid decision making.

That's before covering other stupid shit like breaking up Mike & Mike.

I thought I read in the WSJ today that Ninkovich got let go a few weeks ago.

Mike Greenberg didn't wanna keep doing that show and he's paid like one of their top anchors, it financially made no sense.

He was on just the other day but it's possible.

Riddick, Woody, Orlovsky, and even Ninkovich (who seems to refrain from sucking Brady dick as often as Bruschi) are all 100% better individually than the current team on that Sunday Countdown show. ESPN has talent, but they're not using it properly.

Marcus Spears, too. He could be awesome on Countdown, but instead they've got him talking about the Cowboys every day with Stephen A. Unbelievable.

They've got the professional chefs showing people to their tables while their dishwashers are trying to make duck a l'orange

My guess is either the countdown guys have bigger contracts or have no desire to do a show everyday..like you never see Randy Moss outside of Sunday and Monday countdowns.

Wow, Kolber has been there like 30 years.

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Suzy can come work for me. There will always be a seat for her at my place. :)

Should have dumped Walton ans Vitale

ESPN still unwatchable other than the live events?

I'm presuming it is.

I liked Kobler. She always seemed reasonable.

The few times I saw Young, he seemed to actually know the game. JVG was good. The only time I ever consumed McShay was on Russillo's pod. Maybe he'll have time for more appearances. I don't consume any of his content anymore, but I really liked Jalen Rose.

It's remarkable jackasses like Squirmin Herman Mother****ing Sack of **** Edwards, Damien Woody - who has never said anything interesting ****ing ever, Bruschi who is incapable of anything except shilling for Belicheat. Stephen A Smith who is abso****inglutely the worst of the worst in sports broadcasting still have a ****ing job.

Meh.

Knowing ESPN, they’ll give Suzy’s position to Brooke Pryor.

****ing Bill Walton still does games? WTF?

In my mind I erased Vitale, so there is that.

Any news on that bellend Bart Scott?

He should be fired...Out of a cannon.

ESPN is going to be ugly for football

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The majority of Van Gundy's rants I agreed with.

Put that man in charge of the rules (including in game reviews and fines) committee.

Pretty much this. The only time I watch ESPN is if a Chiefs game is on. And even then I kind of feel dirty about it.

Oh yeah he’s still a trip. Just gotta stay up late to catch the show.

Maybe learn to code?

ESPN went the way of MTV; got away from what they did and lost their way.

We need to help find laid off Ashley Brewer a new job.

https://famousintel.com/wp-content/u...er-Image-1.jpg

She is marrying a NBA player so I doubt she will be hurting. But she was hot and actually a good SportsCenter anchor.

SVP's SportsCenter is their best show by far and is worth watching. The nighttime SportsCenter's aren't bad either. The middle of the day is rough. Pat McAfee will help a bunch.

Meanwhile ESPN keeps Mike Greenberg on their payroll for nearly $20 million/year and he adds nothing of value.

People shit on Malika Andrews but she is as fine as fine gets.

My thoughts exactly. Kiper may be mentally handicapped. He's just extremely confident. He's that guy at your work meetings who has no ****ing idea what he's talking about but he just says it with exuberance and people listen to him.

I don't know if they did or not, but I'd get rid of Jay Williams like yesterday. Super duper expendable.

You're right. Made no sense to make him a top anchor.

Suzy's next project can be to make me sandwich....i want to kiss her too

450 million viewers tune in to watch Max Verstappen win every race by at least 10 seconds while never being passed. Literally the most boring event in the entire spectrum of sports. :D

Even more boring than soccer, a feat previously thought impossible.

Also because they can get 1.5 million viewers at 9 AM on a Sunday and have the highest 18-49 demo rating of the entire day. It beats NASCAR, MLB and Golf.

Joe Namath is on line 1 Suzy.

how long before stephen A and mike irvin get canned?

that place is trash now

awful

max kellerman somehow managed to be insightful, passionate and give hot takes all at the same time without being douchey

plus he was a huge mahomes fan

Kellerman managed to do it despite being paired alot with Jay Williams. Kellerman is great to listen to, but I have to say hiring Mcafee is pretty smart in todays climate.

jesus steve young too

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fz9Erg1X...pg&name=medium

The two Max Kellerman fans. Why does it not surprise me who it is.

Ninkovich is gone. They made an announcement on ESPN last week iirc.

Shannon ****ing Sharpe managed to get Chiefs fans to like him by giving effusive praise to our QB. Why can’t Kellerman? Even moreso, because Kellerman was relatively early to the Mahomes party.

I've always had a weird crush on Suzy Kolber.

https://media.tenor.com/la_46449JwwA...ve-goodbye.gif

On the other end of the spectrum Jeff Van Gundy was in need of a foot to the ass to lead him out the exit door moons ago.

Somewhere on YouTube is a clip of Sharpe hating the Mahomes pick and Bayless loving it. It’s almost like watching that show in an alternate universe.

Its almost like these shows with 2 guys yelling at eachother is scripted

Brewer is the only loss from that group.

Damn. She's hot enough to work for Fox News.

Not Guilty

Outside of college basketball and Monday night football, why in the world would you give that network your time?

...and you know Kaminsky isn't stretching her out too much compared to what other hoopers could do ROFL

People still watch espn?

Yeah, imagine what Karl Malone could do to her.

I used to be an ESPN junkie - now I only watch when forced to, and I know I'm not alone.

What do we think will become of ESPN in the long run??

Just when they broadcast sporting events of interest.

I still watch Sports Center when Scott Van Pelt hosts.

SC w/ SVP and the guys on after him are the only shows i consistently watch. Sometimes I watch Get Up! with Greeny, but only very occasionally.

I think the rest of their shows are basically unwatchable.

I watch Sportscenter. 5 years ago or so ESPN got the memo that people want more Sportscenter back. It was kinda becoming like MTV without music videos.

SportsCenter in the night is worth watching. During the day its rough though.

Vinsanity maybe next…

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Mark Jackson out as well from ESPN.

Link: https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/espn-h...g-doris-burke/

Hall of famer Doris Burke

They will slowly circle the drain by broadcasting live sports. The core of their brand is dead by the Internet.

Doris Burke is fine. Doc rivers sucks though.

No she sucks

Wonder if this is a voluntary or forced retirement...

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He looked terrible last time I saw him on screen. Both in health and doing the gig.

Good riddance.

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About 20 years too late. But I’m guessing it’ll be replaced by something even worse.

I watch PTI every day and ATH during football season and other big sporting events. They're like old friends.

i watched this and Pardon the Interruption religiously after I got home from high school my freshman and sophomore years. Just begging them to say something about the Chiefs.

Guess their break will be longer than 23.5 hours.

ATH was great until about 2016 then they started filling the rolls with the modern day progressive sports journalist and it became as bad as every other espn show.

Long live PTI

Tony Reali has been playing naive college frat boy for 20 years now - yeah, it's probably time to go ahead and put this out to pasture...

PTI is still fine. They seem to be the only show willing to talk baseball and hockey during their respective seasons. At least they offer variety

People watch these shows?

Oh well.

Time to bring back Stump the Schwab!

God, that was terrible.

The Sports Reporters was good stuff back in the day though.

Ha. I just watched that show the other day

Man, I remember growing up I watched all of these ESPN shows religiously. Like, all day long.

These days, I might watch Sunday NFL Countdown or one of the other pregame shows on Sunday.

More on topic, I will say that I never cared for PtI or AtH. Something about the presentation seemed a bit drab for my liking. I also really only like NFL and a little bit of NBA. Those shows are better suited to sports fans with a more broad spectrum of interests than I have.

Everything is different now. You don't need any of these shows to find content on whatever interests you. It's commentary about the current landscape as opposed to dogging the shows out at least from my POV.

This is the only place I come for Chiefs content b/c it all aggregates here (& every NFL team has one).

& other sites for the college programs I follow.

Not to mention podcasts.

When I was a kid in the early 90s I'd turn ESPN Thursday CFA on just to catch their swing around the nation segment at halftime for CFB content. Things have changed.

All these national shows are worthless IDK how any of them stay on the air.

Man, i remember about 30 years ago there was some 24-news channel hat played the same shit over and over every 30 minutes. I checked it once I saw the Chiefs sign Tony Casillas so I checked it out all the time and never saw Chiefs shit again.

Go back older school and bring back Up Close with Roy Firestone.

I mean, espn has done a good job on lots of programming but there is so much damn filler that people just don’t watch anymore. Live sports and pre game got better (adding mcafee, manning cast, etc…). The mcafee podcast will always be kind of a funny relationship since mcafee has so much leverage but it’s a ratings win for espn.

There’s still some decent fantasy football shows and digital segments like Peyton/bellichick content. Weak on sports betting content.

That leaves a looootttt of dead air time.